EmbedterLabs: Better Embedded Labs for More Synergistic Sustainable Urban Transformation Planning (2022-2025)
This project has developed a practical learning tool for practitioners to enhance the impact of urban experiments to transformative urban planning for sustainability.
Why?
Urban experiments are popular, yet creating a transformative impact beyond the experiment is challenging. In many cases the learning process is neglected at the expense of “getting the project done”. This tool helps to feed experimental lessons into policy development for urban transformation.
Who?
The facilitators of an urban experiment employ the tool. These engage all relevant stakeholders around the experiment in a learning community to jointly formulate questions and answers about a policy challenge. The active engagement of stakeholders, with their diverse perspectives, knowledge, and skills, implies learning from and with others, a form of social learning.
How?
The tool is applied with relevant stakeholders in at least two reflections sessions (one before and one after an experiment.
For a general introduction of the tool, please watch this short video:
The film is in English, but you can upload it with subtitles in Dutch, Polish, Swedish, English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese for your convenience.
Please find the tool in downloadable Pdf- form here:
The Learning Tool comes in A5 size, making it easy to print two cards on a standard A4 page. After printing, simply fold the A4 pages in half to prepare your 15 Learning Tool cards for use.
Please print it in color on A4 or A5 format, preferably on thicker paper, so the set of pages becomes a card-deck with front- and back-side printed.
For feedback or any questions concerning the tool, please contact:
[North Europe] dr. Martin Emanuel:
[East Europe] dr. Joanna Bach-Glowinska:
[West- & South Europe & rest of world] dr. Marc Dijk:
The tool was developed by the EmbedterLabs team. The Urban Experiment Learning Tool ©2025 by EmbedterLabs is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. It has been made available for public use as long as the creators are credited (through citation), it is used for non-commercial purposes only and modified material is licensed under identical terms. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Please cite as:
Dijk, M., Emanuel, M., Nixon, D., Hommels, A., Karvonen, A., Bach Glowinska, J., Normark, D. (2025) The Urban Experiment Learning Tool, EmbedterLabs, JPI Urban Europe