This two day international workshop supported by the Competence Centre for Experimental and Participatory Research (ccEXPAR) at LISER aims to share experiences in the fields of participatory approaches and innovative methodologies relevant to European borderlands and local border communities. The mobilization of “living lab” type approaches is part of a perspective of developing the co-creation of projects based on place-based experiments and the active involvement of inhabitants, users, practitioners and policy-makers throughout the research process. Co-creation is considered an innovative setting to improve scientific impact in society. This workshop seeks to better understand the state of knowledge on such approaches and methodologies and to explore the potential benefits of cross-border living labs for European cross-border regions and their stakeholders.

Panels will focus on:

• Collaboratively exploring the (in)visibility of borders
• Co-creating border region policies with local communities
• Collaboratively remapping borders
• Participatory border art

Programme

DAY 1         THURSDAY 26 OCTOBER

9:30-10:00           Participants’ arrival – Coffee and tea

10:00-10:15         Opening address – Martin Dijst (LISER), Christophe Sohn (LISER)

10:15-12:00         Session 1: Collaboratively exploring the (in)visibility of borders

• Exploring the Finnish-Russian borderland with local people: Experiences and future plans - Virpi Kaisto (University of Eastern Finland)
• Border (in)visibilities: A lens to explore border manifestations, representations and experiences - Gintare Kudžmaite (Tampere University)
• Using planning games to evaluate planning cultures in cross-border contexts - Tom Becker (University of Luxembourg)

12:00-13:30         Lunch break

13:30-15:15        Session 2:  Co-creating border region policies with local communities

• Deliberation in Urban Border Spaces: Empowering Local Communities in Shaping  Policies – Martin Barthel (Comparative Research Network)
• The emotional landscape of the Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai: citizens' vision of their cross-border territory – Léa Duhem (Eurométropole Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai)
• The invisible borders – Yusra Amounak (Douri Association)

15:15-16:15         Session 3: Collaboratively remapping borders

• Ceci n’est pas une frontière (This is not a border). Reimagining the cartography of borders  - Henk van Houtum (Nijmegen Centre for Border Research, Radboud University)
• Subjective Atlas. Participative Design Method for Collective Mapping – Annelys de Vet (Subjective Editions)

16:15:-16:45      Coffee/tea break