Podcast Episode - Living Labs on Future Learning Design

Living Labs take many forms, so it only felt right to explore them from a number of angles with Tim Logan from the Future Learning Design Podcast.

We are stuck in an old paradigm, with institutional structures that control and define our lived experience, built for a world that no longer exists.

Within education, passionate entrepreneurs and committed citizens are no longer waiting for these broken formal institutions to be reformed. All over the world, they are designing and building their own local responses with relationships at their core. These are the education ecosystems that our young people need and out of which new institutions will emerge.

The Future Learning Design podcast is an inquiry into these fundamental changes and an invitation to you to join the movement to help nurture the positive change.

The podcast is stacked full of great interviews and interesting explorations of K-12 and higher education folks exploring new ways of learning and reimagining the institutions we work in and around.

So when the call came, it felt right to get in touch with Heleen Geerts who I met through the Open Living Lab Days conferences and European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) where she co-leads the working group on Education & Learning. Heleen is a researcher and practitioner at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, and along with help from her student, Lars Fuhrmann, we set about putting together an episode with a cast including Anja Overdiek, Dinda Ciptaviana & Lotte Troost.

We had a wide ranging discussion from new forms of immersive learning to shifting power in co-creation, novel higher education living lab programs to shifting culture and more.

You can listen to the episode here:

Learning with Living Labs - A Conversation with Heleen Geerts, Anja Overdiek, Sam Rye, Dinda Ciptaviana & Lotte Troost — Good Impact Labs

There is a lot of discussions happening these days about the future of university and higher education in general. How does it keep pace with rapidly changing and disruptive technologies? How does it meet the needs of young people and become responsive and flexible enough to generate much needed tra

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If you're interested, you can also listen directly here:

Make sure you loop back and have a listen to the Future Learning Design Podcast too if you're interested in this space.

Finally, I'd love to hear your thoughts - what were the questions you were left with? What was surprising? What did it spark for you?