Design Studio SoSe 2024
Dr. Oliver Lah

Tranformative Urban Living Labs
Enablers for resilient mobility services in urban and peri-urban areas

The transformation of cities towards sustainable and inclusive development is a key objective of global agendas such as the SDGs or the New Urban Agenda. If an integrated policy and planning approach is applied, there is substantial potential to improve urban access, air quality, safety, and quality of life in cities and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The transformative urban living lab studio at TU Berlin is designed to support this process by focusing on improving urban mobility solutions and connectivity and fostering local innovation to contribute to sustainable urban development. 

Photo: © Oliver Lah

The design studio aims to foster co-creation and the transfer of knowledge and innovative ideas between universities and the private and public sectors. In cooperation with local municipalities and universities, we address key urban challenges by embedding sustainable, new and shared mobility into urban and peri-urban settings. This work incorporates local solutions in partner cities across the globe with physical and digital design concepts tested in leading Living Labs. 

The studio is  is taught majorly online, guided by international partners and linked to study groups of other partner universities in the Urban Living Lab Center (ULLC) context. It is implemented in collaboration with the ULLC, which is a Collaborating Center of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). It is co-hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Technische Universität Berlin, the Wuppertal Institute, and regional partner universities and network partners, who will contribute to the design studio.

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