Urban Living Labs emerged in the past decade as spatially embedded multi-stakeholder integrating forms of urban experimentation. They pose as key-nodes for transforming urban governance and generating new, innovative responses to pressing wicked planning and sustainability issues for cities in transition. In Sweden various such projects have been initiated in various locales as parts of European projects that connect different locales. The present Degree Project seeks to examine mechanisms through which Urban Living Labs seek the transformation of established structures towards a more sustainable future in the Swedish context. It does so by analyzing five such projects that have been established in different urban areas in Sweden. In this process it also examines the roles of main actors who play a prominent role in the framework of this form of urban experimentation. This is succeeded through employing a mixed-method approach as a response to the above questions. The main findings point towards the need for extensive networking and exchange of practices between different locales within Sweden and highlight the potentials of urban experimentation for the transformation of the role of main actors. The present Degree Project concludes by reflecting on the future of Urban Living Labs and urban experimentation.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:54:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ariane Aboboreira.pdf: 901313 bytes, checksum: 710ecbd2fa92f7c051df126196b7b26d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-05-26 / This investigation has as its main objective to analyse, in the specific situation of the Program "Urban Youth" - CENPEC and Itau Social Foundation - what are the impacts on their young participants within their experimentations in Sao Paulo metropolitan area. By evaluating the proposal of the program - which combines explorations in the city, experimentations of new technologies and interventions on the neighborhoods in which the participants are residents - this investigation intends to: understand how the movement of the young participants around the city - and the perception they acquire in the relation with new ways of appropriation and uses of the metropolis - resonates in the resignifications they make about their resident neighborhood; it is also the objective, to answer how these mobile perceptions interfere in the interventions promoted by the end of the "Urban Youth" program. The young participant's narrative is the basis of the methodological axis of this investigation but the research also has as fundamentals:the evaluation of official documents distributed by the "Urban Youth" program, blog analysis; and also with ethnografical practices centered on field research and based on participant observation and interviews / Esta investigação tem como principal objetivo analisar, na situação particular do Programa Jovens Urbanos - CENPEC e Fundação Itaú Social - quais os impactos provocados em seus jovens participantes Programa em suas experimentações na metrópole paulistana. Por meio da análise da proposta do referido Programa que combina explorações na cidade de São Paulo, experimentações de novas tecnologias e intervenções nos bairros de origem , esta investigação visa: compreender como o caminhar dos jovens pela cidade e a percepção que adquirem na relação com novas formas de apropriações e usos da metrópole ressoa nas ressignificações que fazem a respeito do seu bairro de origem; objetiva, também, responder sobre como tais mobilidades perceptivas interferem nas intervenções que promovem ao final do programa por meio dos Projetos Jovens. Ainda que as narrativas juvenis constituam o eixo metodológico privilegiado desta investigação, a pesquisa fundamentou-se, ainda, nos seguintes procedimentos que compuseram o protocolo metodológico: leitura de documentos oficiais disponibilizados pelo Programa Jovens Urbanos , análise dos blogs; e finalmente, em práticas etnográficas centradas na pesquisa de campo e baseada na observação participante e em entrevistas em profundidade