BCIT’s campuses as Living Labs of sustainability initiative is a pan-institutional, collaborative approach to hands-on learning that uses the campus as a vehicle to engage students, faculty and staff in solving real-world challenges.
Living Labs:
- foster skills development through access to campus infrastructure and information,
- demonstrate leading edge technologies and equipment, and
- present opportunities to conceptualize, design and implement solutions that advance the state of practice.
Participatory research & learning
The term “Living Lab” references an approach to research that is participatory in nature. Research subjects and even the researchers themselves become participants who interact through the course of their daily lives with whatever it is that is being tested. Through their interactions, participants learn about how what is being tested performs, how people learn to adapt to it, and how improvements can be made. Please join us at an upcoming event: