Experimentation as a means of governance for sustainability transitions has been advocated for years by transition scholars and geography scholars. We propose that examining the impact of experimentation requires an understanding of its embeddedness in place as a socio-spatial context. This notion of embeddedness, which conceptually aligns well with the understanding of sense of place, is under-examined in sustainability transitions literature. By conjoining the sense of place and sustainability transition literatures, we conceptualize that sense of place can be one outcome of experimentation fostering sustainability transitions. We examine urban living labs as an open format of urban experimentation, where multiple actors interact with the aim to co-design, test, and implement governance innovations. From the literature, we have distilled three phenomena that relate to a sense of place as mechanisms for transformation: a symbolic understanding or meaning of place; a narrative of place that connects to a transformative vision; and new types of relations between people and place. With this conceptual lens, we analyze our case study, an urban living lab called The Resilience Lab in a neighborhood of the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Drawing from a longitudinal case study research, we contend that urban living labs can connect a sense of change (transformation) with a sense of place by co-creating new narratives of place, by co-producing knowledge on new practices and new relations between people and place, and by allowing the co-design or (re)establishment of places with symbolic meaning. As such, urban living labs facilitate urban sustainability transitions.

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城市可持续性转型中的地点感和试验感：位于荷兰鹿特丹卡尼斯的抗灾力实验室。

多年来，转型学者和地理学者一直倡导将试验作为治理可持续转型的一种手段。我们建议检查实验的影响需要理解其作为社会空间环境的嵌入性。在概念上与位置感的理解非常吻合的嵌入式概念，在可持续性转型文献中并未得到充分研究。通过结合地点感和可持续性转型文献，我们将地点感概念化为促进可持续性转型的实验结果之一。我们将城市生活实验室视作一种开放的城市实验形式，其中多个参与者相互作用，以共同设计，测试和实施治理创新。从文献来看 我们已经将与场所感相关的三种现象提炼为转化机制：象征性的理解或场所含义；与变革视野相关的地方叙事；以及人与地方之间的新型关系。通过这种概念上的镜头，我们分析了我们的案例研究，这是一个位于荷兰鹿特丹市附近的城市生活实验室，名为The Resilience Lab。通过纵向的案例研究，我们认为城市生活实验室可以通过共同创造新的场所叙事，共同产生关于新习惯和新人际关系的知识，来将变化感（转变）与场所感联系起来和地点，并允许共同设计或（重新）建立具有象征意义的地点。因此，城市生活实验室促进了城市可持续性的转变。