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Is Living "Lab" a good name?

Is Living Lab a good name for this activity when we are involving human being?
The activity is clear enough but who wants to be participant in a lab? Understanding for participant the object under study.
Living Lab activity consider citizen as part of the innovation process as a participant and not as a "object under study".
The idea behind this comment is that we all, as coordinators of Living Labs, must be careful when talking about that to citizens.
So, will they understand that they are participants of a Lab instead of an object of study?

By iperez at 2007-11-20 10:25 | LivingLabs@Work | iperez's blog | login to post comments | 1653 reads

Living Lab.

In my mind Living lab is a good name. The word Lab makes me think not just about a laboratory but at labour (lab.), work, too.
When lab means experiments, it's good: every new excellent thing has once been just a crazy idea and needs much nice experimenting.

What we should do more is to make this a living labour field for all citizens who belong to our projects.

Innovative European interactivity!

Kurt

www.personaleu.eu
kurt.linderoos@personaleu.eu

By takapiru at Fri, 2007-12-07 08:25 | login to post comments

Thanx

The challenge is to make citizen participe in the living lab so that those brilliants (or crazy) ideas become a reality and useful for them.
I like the concept Lab as labour environment!!

By iperez at Mon, 2008-02-25 15:39 | login to post comments

In my mind Living lab is a

...good name.
(There should be a delete button here. Now I wrote my comment twice.
But as I said: good name. We all have a fantastic living lab between the ears.)

Innovative European interactivity!

Kurt

www.personaleu.eu
kurt.linderoos@personaleu.eu

By takapiru at Fri, 2007-12-07 08:24 | login to post comments