Territorial Agroecological Living Labs

TAELabs will design and monitor, through transdisciplinary research, a comprehensive, globally oriented, and at the same time, place-based framework of Territorial Agroecological Living Labs.

The project will propose innovations on the three transition domains (1) ecological and biophysical; (2) socio-economic; and (3) governance and policy.

The project will be developed in 5 living labs at landscape/territorial levels, covering fringe territories in metropolitan (n=3) and rural settings (n=2): Madrid (SP), Rome (IT), Sörmland (SE), Brandenburg (DE), and Bornholm (DK), in Northern and Southern European territories with different climate and socio-historical and economic contexts.

Fringe territories are peripheral spaces to the main socio-economic dynamics, but at the same time setting linkages between different territories, which host fringe (socio-economic) actors needed for sustainable localized dynamics of innovation.

A special focus will be placed on the assemblage between biophysical and social infrastructures, rural and urban settings, and fringe and core territories, as well as between actors, with an intersectional focus to address different axes of inequality (gender, race, income, territory, etc.) in joining transitions.