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This chapter seeks to explore experimentation and innovation at the grassroots and the extent to which this allows certain community initiatives to be viewed as urban living labs (ULL) while also investigating how seeing a community initiative as a ULL helps to understand processes of transformation. It introduces the work of PACT (Prepare, Adapt, Connect, Thrive) and focuses on the ways in which it served to constitute a form of ULL in which a place-based community became the arena within which multiple approaches to sustainability designed to engage excluded communities were developed and tested. Manor House PACT therefore differs from many ULL in terms of the ways in which it seeks to practice experimentation and learning. PACT also recognised that while the natural environment improves, people need to know how to use and care for it in order to safeguard positive changes and maximise benefits for themselves. |
