Université de Lorraine
Led by ERPI laboratory, the Lorraine Smart Cities Living Lab (LSCLL) is a collaborative project of the Université de Lorraine (UL) to support the early design stage of development of systemic innovations towards an industry 5.0 and sustainable territories.
It advocates for a commons-based technology framework and a circular economy, promoting collective resource management for sustainability.
The core competencies are based on structuring collaborative approaches to co-create intermediate design objects (IDO) linking the multilevel perspective of the innovation from technological development, organisation maturity, and the territorial development perspective. At each level, the integration of different stakeholders (e.g. company, providers, partners, academics… and the end-users and/or consumers) along the design and production process is fostered to better understand the socio-technical systems.
Furthermore, UL LAUDS Factory (LSCLL-UL) aims to implement the Do-It-Together (DIT) concept, an alternative co-creation and open-manufacturing process that enables customized production, promoting local manufacturing closer to consumers and open-communities who actively contribute to the production. See: Inedit Project.
Finally, the LSCLL creates the conditions for Public-Private-Population Partnerships (PPPPs) that are aware of the environmental challenges and willing to develop solutions to serve the common good. That means we adopt a quintuple helix approach to disseminate innovation and related practices in the service of Research, Development of Innovations, Training, a Citizen Culture, and environment.
Resources and technology available to the hybrid teams
As a research and teaching platform, the LSCLL-UL has a wide range of equipment, some aimed at the general public, others highly specialized. A description of the available equipment can be found on the following pages (in French):
- https://fabmanager.lf2l.fr/#!/machines
- https://pluginlabs.univ-lorraine.fr/fiche/lorraine-fab-living-lab/
- https://inspiration.dgesip.fr/Espaces/Lieu/WuMr6/
On this last webpage, a description of innovation spaces, including laboratories, within the LSCLL-UL is available.
A 2D-3D-4D process: from co-creation to test by use
Support to the co-creation of concept (2D) and its suitability for its socio-technical and natural environment. Accompany projects for a validation of the prototype (3D) through an evaluation of the user experience in a real or virtual environment (4D) prior to physical production, to limit the number of trials and errors, while minimising wasted resources. Tests could be set up at LSCLL-UL (control environment), in relevant environment (open environment) or at the Foire Expo de Nancy with the Open citizen lab in pedagogical/citizen workshops, etc.
A territorial network
- L'Octroi Nancy – creative, cultural and citizen third place of the city of Nancy, which provides access to additional spaces such as offices, a creative community, etc.
- DHDA project: a regional and hybrid collective (entrepreneurs, foresters, artists, farmers, researchers, elected representatives, industrialists, financiers and naturalists, citizens...) to make the most of all the trees in our region.
Period for cooperation
Experiments may be implemented between October 2024 and September 2025. LSCLL-UL is available to cooperate directly with the hybrid team from October 2024 to mid-July 2025.
