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An Introduction: Living Laboratory - About the Model

Last updated on November 9, 2017 - 11:13am

The Living Laboratory Info Sheet highlights impacts of the Living Lab model of collaboration on three audiences: museum educators, collaborating researchers and the public.

What is Living Laboratory? is a graphic representation of the Living Laboratory model.

Essential Elements - the Living Laboratory Model outlines the key features of the model.
Please note that the elements were revised in May 2017.

Living Laboratory®: A Mutual Professional Development Model for Museum-based Research Partnerships - an invited chapter in the book Cognitive Development in Museum Settings: Relating Research and Practice (edited by J. Jipson and D. Sobel; published by Psychology Press) - provides an overview of the benefits of the Living Laboratory model for researchers, museum professionals and public audiences.

Living Laboratory Introductory Presentation - slide deck delivered by PI Becki Kipling at the "Living Lab New & Potential Adopters Meeting" (Baltimore, MD; December 8, 2016).

Click to download resources:

  • Living Laboratory Info Sheet
  • What is Living Laboratory? [graphic]
  • Essential Elements - the Living Laboratory Model
  • Living Laboratory®: A Mutual Professional Development Model for Museum-­based Research Partnerships
  • Living Laboratory Introductory Presentation (Baltimore, 12/8/16)

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The National Living Lab Initiative is supported by a grant to the Museum of Science, Boston from the National Science Foundation under Award Number 1113648.

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