Campus Living Lab: an underutilised educational tool?

Authors Connor McGookin, Derek Gladwin, Naoko Ellis
Publication date 2025
Type Lecture

Summary

Campus as a living lab has emerged as a collaborative framework to advance sustainability challenges on university campuses. This paper provides a summary of the Campus Living Lab run at the University of British Columbia’s Sustainability Office. It documents two flagship projects and offers reflections on how they contribute to the university’s objectives across operations, education, and research. It demonstrates the impact such projects can have on key goals such as reducing the campus’s carbon footprint. Although there are challenges associated with working in diverse teams that bring together partners from inside and outside the university, Campus Living Lab can offer low risk, high reward outcomes for research. We highlight it as an underutilized educational resource as there has been limited engagement with teaching and learning programmes. To this end, we outline a variety of ways that education could be enriched through more active involvement with the Campus Living Lab.

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Key words campus living lab, experiential learning, postgraduate training, project-based learning
Digital Object Identifier 10.48544/1cf49241-57c0-4038-bc1b-f235e63c4f4c

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