Urban Management – Fieldlabs

The Urban Management Fieldlabs are hosted by the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with Amsterdam Municipality. 

Urban Management Fieldlabs develop innovative approaches to metropolitan problems. Urban Management Fieldlabs were initiated in collaboration with stakeholders in three areas of the city: Nieuw-est, Zuidoost, and Oost. The Fieldlabs focus on developing area-based solutions to tangible urban challenges through co-creation. Together with local stakeholders, a shared long-term research and innovation agenda is formulated at the start of each Fieldlab. To ensure the focus on challenges that are specific to the areas in which the Fieldlabs are based, the local strategic development plan of the city district forms the starting point in developing this agenda. The UM Fieldlabs function as continuous learning environments focusing on the development of knowledge, but also on the improvement of practice through the direct application of acquired knowledge in tangible interventions. Because of the dynamic, complex and multi-faceted character of urban issues, addressing them will never be possible by only focusing on one aspect. The UM Fieldlabs are local innovation milieus aiming to contribute to the social innovation needed to address multi-scalar, multi-actor and mulit-diciplinary urban challnges. A multi-diciplinary research team that is constituted based on the nature of the issue at hand is involved to ensure well informed decisions are make