2025 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Silver Winner

Living Lab+

Entrant Company

Institute for Information Industry

Category

Conceptual Design - Institutional

Client's Name

Country / Region

Taiwan

Unlike traditional accelerators confined to static offices, Living Lab+ offers immersive, sensor-rich environments where ideas are experienced, tested, and transformed through real human interaction. Every exhibition becomes a living laboratory; every visitor, a co-researcher; every interaction, a data point shaping the next iteration.
Transformative impact to date:
• 300+ innovative events
• 10,000+ engaged participants from 15 countries
• 100+ co-creation projects redefining design, technology, and social innovation
Its AI-powered rapid research module converts fragmented experiences into strategic insights within hours, not weeks. Large language models process behavioral data, survey responses, and collaborative outputs into actionable intelligence—accelerating decision-making for different organizations.
Living Lab+ is not just an innovation space—it's a living ecosystem that senses, learns, and co-evolves with human creativity.Established in 2023, it orchestrates five symbiotic modules—adaptive space operations, experiential testing,cross-disciplinary co-creation, exhibition curation, and AI-powered insight generation—creating seamless flows from imagination to implementation.
Looking forward, Living Lab+ envisions a distributed network of adaptive innovation spaces, connected through shared protocol and collective intelligence systems. This isn't merely infrastructure—it's an evolutionary leap in institutional design,demonstrating that tomorrow's breakthroughs emerge from living ecosystems where experiential design and artificial intelligence amplify human potential.
Living Lab+ represents the future of innovation infrastructure: responsive, intelligent, and fundamentally alive.

Credits

Digital Transformation Research Institute
Supervisor
Harriet Lin
Director
Phoebe Huang
Creative Director
William Shyu
Interactive Design
Lai, Yen Chen
Team member
Yan Jen Chen
Team member
Valerie Yan
Team member
Teik Khang, Tan
Team member
Hong-I Hsu
Collaborator
Play Design Lab
Collaborator
no.X Media Digit CO., LTD.
Collaborator
TEAL | Oceanic TechArt Ltd. Peter JW Pacida
Collaborator
Lynn Liao
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