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LIVING LAB, A LIVEABLE LABORATORY

LIVING LAB, LABORATORIET EIN KAN BU I

Marius Støylen Korsnes (NTNU)

The Zero Emission Building Living Lab is a hand inluence people’s everyday lives and small children and couples around the age
detached house newly erected on the edge practices. Social science innovation literature of sixty. Two groups that were as similar as
of the NTNU Campus Gløshaugen. The points out that new and important innovation possible within each category were chosen.
house, which has a living space of 100m , is often happens when a new technology is By having two and two similar groups we are
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constructed with state of the art technology actually used. Feedback from real users is able to compare and contrast our indings,
for energy saving and eficiency and the therefore very useful in order to make the which allows a better understanding of to
production of renewable energy. Since technology accessible for a larger group of what degree similarities and differences are
October 2015 three different groups have people. Hence, the qualitative experiments in connected to the group as a singular factor,
lived in the house, and three new groups Living Lab can help to reveal challenges and or to other factors. Qualitative experiments
shall take up residence before the irst round advantages within a zero emission building, are not as rigorous as controlled laboratory
of qualitative experiments are over at the which are dificult to imagine when the building experiments, but they do provide new
end of April 2016. The goal of the qualitative is not in actual use. perspectives and a broader ground for
experiments is to learn more about the comparison than other approaches.
interaction between users and zero emission The experiments is organised in the following
buildings, something that will help to make way: Six groups were chosen from 150 During each group’s stay a broad range of
society better prepared for a future that will applicants to live in the lab for a period data was collected, and the methodologies
include zero emission buildings. of 25 days each. The six chosen groups applied are a mix of sociological and
ordinarily live in a variety of housing types, anthropological understandings of energy use.
The qualitative experiments are unique in from student housing and apartments, to The residents are interviewed before, during
a Norwegian context, and are important to row houses and detached houses, and none and after their stays in the lab. Participant
gain a better understanding of how users of the aforementioned homes has speciic observation also takes place sporadically
and the house may be expected to inluence ambitions regarding low energy usage. The during the 25 days at different times of the
one another. Users can for instance make an six groups chosen were based on three main day. The residents keep their own diary where
impact on the zero emission ambitions of the demographic categories: student couples they write down their daily activities and
building, and the building can on the other under the age of thirty, families with two schedule, as well as other observations and

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