---
title: "Catalysing regeneration through territorial labs: Living Lab innovation in declining agrarian landscapes"
type: commentary
locale: en
url: https://liminalfutures.com/commentaries/catalysing-regeneration-through-territorial-labs
date: "2025-10-01"
doi: "10.5281/zenodo.17412116"
canonical_url: "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17412116"
summary: "Introduces the Territorial Lab methodology: embedded Living Labs for land abandonment and demographic decline, using short-format Challenges to build long-term experimental spaces."
---

# Catalysing regeneration through territorial labs: Living Lab innovation in declining agrarian landscapes

Type: commentary
Date: 2025-10-01
People: Nicolás Delgado Alcega; Ginevra D’Agostino; Gabriele Pizzi
Organizations: Liminal
Places: Monti Prenestini
Challenges: Transitioning a Landscape; Shaping the Ground
Commentaries: Catalysing Regeneration through Territorial Labs (Open Living Lab Days 2025)

## Summary

Introduces the Territorial Lab methodology: embedded Living Labs for land abandonment and demographic decline, using short-format Challenges to build long-term experimental spaces.

## Work

Conference paper by Nicolás Delgado Alcega, Ginevra D’Agostino and Gabriele Pizzi in the proceedings of the Open Living Lab Days 2025, published on 1 October 2025. Open access (CC BY 4.0) at [doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17412116](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17412116). The PDF stays on Zenodo.

Introduces the Territorial Lab methodology: embedded Living Labs for land abandonment and demographic decline, using short-format Challenges to build long-term experimental spaces. Its two pilots, Transitioning a Landscape and Shaping the Ground, were carried out in the Monti Prenestini. The presentation at the conference has its own record.

## Sources

- zenodo: [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17412116](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17412116)

## Outputs

- Discussed in Catalysing Regeneration through Territorial Labs (Open Living Lab Days 2025)

## Related

- Authored by [Nicolás Delgado Alcega](/people/nicolas-delgado-alcega)
- Authored by [Ginevra D’Agostino](/people/ginevra-dagostino)
- Authored by [Gabriele Pizzi](/people/gabriele-pizzi)
- Authored by [Liminal](/organizations/liminal)
- Discusses [Monti Prenestini](/places/monti-prenestini)
- Discusses [Transitioning a Landscape](/challenges/transitioning-a-landscape)
- Discusses [Shaping the Ground](/challenges/shaping-the-ground)