Places where complexity
becomes learning.
Living Labs are open and evolving environments where people, territories, institutions, and ecosystems come together to explore new ways of living, producing, and learning.
They are not experimental spaces separated from reality, but real-life contexts where complexity is embraced as a resource for innovation, inclusion, and shared prosperity.
Learning through
real-world challenges.
Within Living Labs, learning happens through direct engagement with concrete challenges: food systems, climate change, social inclusion, local economies, and community resilience.
Living Labs are not fixed structures, but adaptive processes.
They function as open and evolving ecosystems where institutions, communities, researchers, students and practitioners collaborate to observe, test and co-create solutions to real-world challenges.
This approach enables learning to happen within complexity, not outside it, fostering systems thinking, critical awareness and long-term vision.
MEGALOPOLIS | KYOBASHI, TOKYO
MEDIUM-SIZED CITY | OFFICUCINA, REGGIO EMILIA
RURAL AREA | PAIDEIA, POLLICA
MEDIUM-SIZED CITY | SCUDERIA, BOLOGNA
RURAL AREA | VILLA MONTEPALDI, SAN CASCIANO
Food, education and
territories as living systems.
Living Labs place food, education and territories at the centre of learning processes.
Food becomes a lens through which to understand health, environment, culture and economies; territories become classrooms; communities become co-educators.
By working directly within places, Living Labs reconnect knowledge with context, and theory with practice.
Prosperity, inclusion
and regeneration.
Living Labs support a vision of prosperity that goes beyond economic growth.
They explore regenerative models that integrate environmental care, social inclusion and cultural value, enabling collective responses to global challenges.
Through shared experimentation, Living Labs activate responsibility, collaboration and the capacity to imagine alternative futures.
Living Labs within
Sara Roversi’s work.
For Sara Roversi, Living Labs represent a fundamental methodology for cultural and systemic change.
They embody a way of working that transforms territories into learning ecosystems, capable of generating new models of leadership, governance, and responsibility.
Living Labs are where vision meets practice, and where future-ready communities begin to take shape.
