Improving Soil Health: A Systemic Approach for Co-Creating Living Labs in Urban and Industrial Environments

This webinar explores diverse co-creation strategies crucial for mobilising stakeholders and overcoming challenges in fostering healthier soils in urban and industrial areas. It introduces an analytical matrix to facilitate delving into critical parameters to inform effective soil interventions and the establishment of healthy soil living labs. The discussion, drawing from European case studies, aims to inform adaptive lab strategies addressing the Soil Mission’s objectives across diverse sites, land use, ownerships, scales of action, levels of governance interactions and the variability in multi-stakeholder cooperations (disciplines and geography). It also highlights the need to consider forms of land optimisation for ecological functions, the type of intermediation into knowledge co-production networks, and the legitimisation of access to land for adaptive reuse and soil regeneration.