I Living Lab Rurali, tra sperimentazione e cooperazione. Il caso del Madrid Rural Lab

Rural Living Labs: Experimentation and Cooperation This paper examines how Rural Living Labs can operate as devices of comfort in territories of discomfort, understood as an enabling condition for learning, cooperation, and production in safe settings. The case of the Madrid Rural Lab, a polycentric network with local facilita-tors and a digital platform, deployed in Chinchón, San Martín de Valdeiglesias, and Venturada shows how governance, practices, and programming activate lightweight spaces capable of generating relational, educational, and productive ecologies. The observed out-comes concern trust, skills, and collaboration, and point to metrics and stable agreements to integrate Living Labs into territorial strate-gies of generative welfare and project-based democracy.

Il contributo analizza come i Living Lab Rurali possano operare come dispositivi di comfort nei territori del discomfort, inteso come condi-zione abilitante per apprendere, cooperare e produrre in sicurezza. Il caso del Madrid Rural Lab, rete policentrica con facilitatori locali e piattaforma digitale, articolata a Chinchón, San Martín de Valdeigle-sias e Venturada, mostra come governance, pratiche e programma-zione attivino spazi leggeri capaci di generare ecologie relazionali, educative e produttive. Gli esiti osservati riguardano fiducia, compe-tenze e collaborazione e suggeriscono metriche e accordi stabili per integrare i Living Lab nelle strategie territoriali di welfare generativo e democrazia progettuale.