Join Myriam Berube, Hugo Steban (MIS) and Jean-Francois Jasmin (LLio) to learn the potential of Living Labs to create transformative change. In this virtual workshop, you will understand the Living Labs approach to innovation by and for community members, evaluate the relevance of using a living lab approach to solve a complex issue in your territory or communities and explore the different levers to activate a living lab and the steps to implement it. 
English: March 3, 2022 | 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm ET | Register here: events.tamarackcommunity.ca/w...
français: 16 mars 2022 | 13h00 - 16h30 ET | Inscrivez-vous pour l'atelier virtuel: events.tamarackcommunity.ca/a...
Today, communities are facing an array of complex social and environmental challenges. The programs we have created to address these challenges have been unable to impact in a significant way. New solutions are required. The results that are urgently needed cannot and will not be found by simply making incremental changes to our current approaches. The breakthroughs that community changemakers seek require new approaches. Social innovation has become imperative to effectively address our society’s most significant issues.
Unfortunately, inventions are many, but innovations that are successfully adopted are few, and breakthrough innovations are disruptive in nature, sometimes leading to actions meant to solve old problems ending up generating new ones.
Thus, community innovation requires not only an appreciation of the issue one is hoping to address but also a deep understanding of the unique characteristics of the community. The place and the people within it, where the innovation will be implemented.
Within promising community innovation practices targeting successful adoptions within communities, Living Labs are generating more and more buzz and yet there is confusion about what they are; when to use them; and what they can help us achieve.
Join us to gain a clearer understanding of Livings Labs as Myriam Bérubé invites Hugo Steben (Maison de l’innovation sociale) and Jean-François Jasmin (Living Lab en innovation ouverte (LLio)) to share their experiences and insights from two Québec-based organizations with an approach that yields a huge potential for transformative change.