Our Living Labs: creating impact for Amsterdam

The Living Lab approach is strongly intertwined with our core activities in both research & valorization and education. Together with different partners, we work on a multitude of living labs throughout the city, in which we are creating impact for the city on the different urban challenges (read more about the urban challenges).

Urban living labs are real-life small-scale urban environments where innovations can be co-created and tested in an iterative way with relevant stakeholders (students, scientists, citizens, companies, and cities) before being replicated at the urban scale. Urban Living Labs provide a perfect set-up for experimenters to validate urban innovations addressing complex urban challenges.

Find the team of Living Lab managers, all part of the AMS Urban Impact team on our staff pages. https://www.ams-institute.org/about-ams/team/ams-staff/

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Living Lab Clean City Center

Circularity in Urban Regions

'Living Lab Schone Binnenstad’ is a collaboration with the City of Amsterdam. This program focuses on developing, testing, and implementing innovative waste management solutions to make the inner city cleaner, more circular, and liveable.

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Energy Lab Zuidoost

Urban Energy

Amsterdam Zuidoost aims to be energy neutral by 2040. This requires systemic change. Not only on a technical – but also on a social level. Therefore, the Energy Lab Zuidoost brings together stakeholders & scientific expertise from different disciplines.

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Marineterrein Amsterdam Living Lab

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Local Inclusive Future Energy (LIFE) City platform

Urban Energy

Smart planning for energy demand and supply. This will be tested via a smart energy exchange platform in the area of Amsterdam ArenApoort. The result: an electricity grid-friendly and community inclusive innovation to contribute to the energy transition.

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ATELIER

Urban Energy

What if we could generate more energy rather than consume this? In the ATELIER project, neighborhoods in Amsterdam and Bilbao are transformed into 'Positive Energy Districts' by implementing innovative solutions. Ultimately reducing 1,7kton CO2 emissions.

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EU4Advice: Building a better network for short food supply chains

Metropolitan Food Systems

EU4Advice aims to create a learning ecosystem for short food supply chain advisors, policy-makers, researchers & farmers. This will accelerate the potential of empowering both producers and consumers toward a more just and sustainable food system.

MSc MADE Living Labs

Designing and working from Living Labs is also a main activity for the graduating MSc MADE students. In their living lab assignments we connect them to the Amsterdam ecosystem, in which they work on cases for and together with our partners in the network. View student living lab results here.

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MSc MADE Urban Living Lab Course

Education

MSc MADE Living Lab Course

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MSc Metropolitan Analysis, Design and Engineering

Education

MSc MADE - a joint degree from TU Delft and WUR - is at the heart of our educational program. The master program is strongly connected with our other activities on living labs, research & innovation and entrepreneurship.

Want to know more or looking to collaborate?

Mark Kauw

Team Lead & Urban Living Lab Program Developer

mark.kauw@ams-institute.org

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