Introduction

LOLA PROJECT

The LOLA project is a training project funded by the European Union and aimed at promoting systemic thinking among local communities, students and university faculty. Systems thinking allows us to detect and use the relationships between the different elements and agents that make up a complex system such as the landscape, thus enabling the design of more effective and consensual transitions towards sustainable, resilient and climate change adapted futures. The LOLA project is structured through seven Local Landscape Laboratories located in Nürtingen (Germany), Brussels (Belgium), Rome (Italy), Gdansk (Poland), L’Horta Sud de Valencia (Spain), Antalya (Turkey) and Beirut (Lebanon) in which learning and collaboration between local communities, administrations, university and business will be promoted. The experiences and knowledge generated will be collected and disseminated through the deliverables of the LOLA project.
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THE HORTALAB in the LOLA project

The Local Landscape Laboratory of L’Horta Sud (HORTALAB) takes water as its central element to activate a collective reflection on the evolution, current state and future of the landscape of L’Horta Sud. To this end, and following the objectives and work plan that will be defined by the HORTALB community, the following works will be carried out in a consensual and sequential manner: (1) a systemic diagnosis of the landscape of L’Horta Sud that considers its resources, values, opportunities and challenges (2) a definition of systemic objectives and strategies that integrate the cultural, environmental, economic and perceptual dimensions of the territory for different future scenarios. (3) a collaborative design of systemic proposals that allow the agreed transitions to be developed and tested within the laboratory. The HORTALAB laboratory is thus constituted as a platform open to the residents, administrations, associations and companies of L’Horta Sud, whose work between 2026 and 2028 will be facilitated by the Polytechnic University of Valencia as local coordinator of the LOLA project.

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