Authors
Matthias Bergmann, Niko Schäpke, Oskar Marg, Franziska Stelzer, Daniel J Lang, Michael Bossert, Marius Gantert, Elke Häußler, Editha Marquardt, Felix M Piontek, Thomas Potthast, Regina Rhodius, Matthias Rudolph, Michael Ruddat, Andreas Seebacher, Nico Sußmann
Publication date
2021/3
Journal
Sustainability Science
Volume
16
Pages
541-564
Publisher
Springer Japan
Description
The transdisciplinary research mode has gained prominence in the research on and for sustainability transformations. Yet, solution-oriented research addressing complex sustainability problems has become complex itself, with new transdisciplinary research formats being developed and tested for this purpose. Application of new formats offers learning potentials from experience. To this end, we accompanied fourteen research projects conceptualized as real-world labs (RwLs) from 2015 to 2018. RwLs were part of a funding program on ‘Science for Sustainability’ in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg. Here, we combine conceptual and empirical work to a structured collection of experiences and provide a comprehensive account of RwLs. First, we outline characteristics of RwLs as transformation oriented, transdisciplinary research approach, using experiments, enabling learning and having a …
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