Living Labs for Urban Entrepreneurship: Architecture – Green Building celebrates project approval within the INUAS collaboration

Living Labs for Urban Entrepreneurship: Architecture – Green Building celebrates project approval within the INUAS collaboration

Great news for the three architecture departments within the INUAS network (Hochschule Campus Wien – HCW, Hochschule München – HM, and ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften): we have received funding to launch a new joint project on Living Labs for Urban Entrepreneurship.

From March to December 2026, the three departments will collaborate to explore how co-creative and participatory approaches can strengthen urban resilience and enhance everyday quality of life. Living Labs offer exactly this: spaces where academia, communities, businesses, and local authorities come together to design, test, and implement new ideas — from circular resource use and local energy systems to shared spaces and social innovation.

As a first step, the project team will build a shared knowledge base and compare existing Living Lab and Real-Lab models across the three institutions. Building on these insights, they will develop a methodological concept for a Local Entrepreneurship Lab — a framework for future research and hands-on initiatives that will also lay the foundation for a larger EU follow-up project.

By combining research, teaching, and co-creative experimentation, the three departments are setting the stage for long-term collaboration and for innovative approaches to urban transformation.

We look forward to exchanging ideas, learning from each other, and jointly preparing the next steps toward resilient and liveable cities.