Lab U. Experiencia Transdisciplinaria Avanzada en Campus a partir de la Transformación Digital de los Territorios

Abstract

This document proposes the initiative to associate academic, public, private and stakeholders; in a joint transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral work space, from an academic unit oriented to Innovation and applied Research for the process of Digital Transformation of Territories. In this, a Work Platform, Laboratory U, has been structured to develop the academic objective of enriching the learning experience of students, linking them in a practical and useful way with the needs that it raises and opportunities that an Urban Living Laboratory for Learning has available. Situational asset within a neighborhood territorial scale. Characterized for a political and economic context of transformation, more viable and approachable, as well as close to the real and emerging needs of our society, expressed from the living network of social intelligence that are the Communities. This arena of innovation raises its importance in the Cities in two aspects. Firstly as a strategy of change more at hand for its Political-Public Management, given its scale of territorial unit and scope of services and infrastructure for a proximity living; and secondly in its critical social scope, which seeks to define how we want to live in the future, within a City inserted in a model of sustainable development with the environment, more socially inclusive and sympathetic to the search for demobilization and the desire to live another rhythm of life more appeased, but active in connectivity and relationships, which facilitates the advance towards a polycentric development of the city from the bases of the Communities and Use of this relationship; putting at its core people and their interests as Citizen Experts, in virtuous association with the potential of digital doing and the intelligent platforms that make it available.