
Legitimacities
Toward a network of city-based regulatory experimentation labs
2019 –
Partners
McConnell Foundation
MaRS
The societal crises of ecological collapse and inequality require bold collective action. Yet the foundations of collective action are shaking; trust in government and institutions has eroded. It is at the scale of cities and communities that legitimacy can be rebuilt. And it is at the scale of cities that solutions to complex crises and new possibilities can be imagined, created, tested and implemented.
There is a need for new hybrid labs that span across sectors and have the capacity for strategic, participatory experiments: experiments that test both technology and regulation; experiments created with and governed by people from every sector; experiments that rebuild trust and reveal transition pathways.
After supporting the City of Montreal in designing a next generation of hybrid civic innovation lab with regulatory experimentation capacity, Dark Matter Labs worked with a group of partners around the broader case for regulatory experimentation to build civic legitimacy in the document Legitimacities Issue #1 and its Quayside Addendum. A first cohort of cities with supporting partners is also in the making.
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There is a need for new hybrid labs that span across sectors and have the capacity for strategic, participatory experiments: experiments that test both technology and regulation; experiments created with and governed by people from every sector; experiments that rebuild trust and reveal transition pathways.
After supporting the City of Montreal in designing a next generation of hybrid civic innovation lab with regulatory experimentation capacity, Dark Matter Labs worked with a group of partners around the broader case for regulatory experimentation to build civic legitimacy in the document Legitimacities Issue #1 and its Quayside Addendum. A first cohort of cities with supporting partners is also in the making.
Read Legitimacities 1 ︎
Read Legitimacities 1.Q ︎




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Dark Matter Laboratories B.V.
Pakhuis de Zwijger
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1019 HC Amsterdam
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United Kingdom
Dark Matter Laboratories Limited
217 Mare Street
London, E8 3QE
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Canada
Laboratoires de Matière sombre / Dark Matter LabsOrganisation à but non-lucratif canadien / Canadian not-for-profit
1755 Rue Saint-Patrick app C-403
Montréal (Québec), H3K 3G9
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South Korea
주식회사 다크매터랩스코리아 / Dark Matter Labs Korea Co., Ltd
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Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, 17902
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Mörk Materia Laboratoriet AB / Dark Matter Labs Sweden
Östergatan 1
211 25 Malmö
Registration number: 559305-1047
Netherlands
Dark Matter Laboratories B.V.
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Piet Heinkade 181K
1019 HC Amsterdam
KvK number: 75174405
United Kingdom
Dark Matter Laboratories Limited
217 Mare Street
London, E8 3QE
Company number: 13294211
Canada
Laboratoires de Matière sombre / Dark Matter LabsOrganisation à but non-lucratif canadien / Canadian not-for-profit
1755 Rue Saint-Patrick app C-403
Montréal (Québec), H3K 3G9
Numéro de l'organisation / Corporation number: 1196376-7
South Korea
주식회사 다크매터랩스코리아 / Dark Matter Labs Korea Co., Ltd
#301, Pyeongtaek 5-ro 20beon-gil 8,
Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, 17902
경기도 평택시 평택5로 20번길 8, 301호, 우편번호 17902
사업자등록증: 808-88-01717
Sweden
Mörk Materia Laboratoriet AB / Dark Matter Labs Sweden
Östergatan 1
211 25 Malmö
Registration number: 559305-1047
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