BELgrade Urban Living LAB

AI-powered BELgrade urban living LAB (AI-BELLAB) is a collaborative environment where citizens, planning experts, the public sector, and private companies work together to co-create solutions in response to complex urban and climate-related challenges, e.g. climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and climate resilience, reduction of air and soil pollution, urban biodiversity protection, healthy city promotion, and sustainable urban mobility planning. It was established in 2020 as the first Urban Living Lab in Serbia and the Western Balkans. AI-BELLAB is more than just a testbed platform since it provides experimentation in real-life settings, with AI-supported tools creating equitable and inclusive processes for public urban space co-creation. Amidst rising urbanization and political challenges, intensified by the global ecological and economic crisis, the Living Lab approach provides a new and creative solution for the implementation of public policies and urban design projects. The multifaceted goal of BELLAB is to overcome silos thinking caused by disciplinary boundaries, to envisage and engage various groups of stakeholders, empower citizens, to bridge top-down and bottom-up initiatives, and provide a shared vision of better quality of life in Belgrade.

Areas of work:

• Circular Economy
• Emerging Technologies (e.g. AI, AR/VR)
• Environment/Climate Change
• Mobility
• Smart Cities and Regions
• Social Innovation and Inclusion
• Zero Pollution and Decarbonization