TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Schäpke, Niko A1 - Stelzer, Franziska A1 - Caniglia, Guido A1 - Bergmann, Matthias A1 - Wanner, Matthias A1 - Singer-Brodowski, Mandy A1 - Loorbach, Derk A1 - Olsson, Per A1 - Baedeker, Carolin A1 - Lang, Daniel J. T1 - Jointly experimenting for transformation? : Shaping real-world laboratories by comparing them N2 - Real-world laboratories (RwLs, German Reallabore) belong to a family of increasingly popular experimental and transdisciplinary research approaches at the science-society interface. As these approaches in general, and RwLs in particular, often lack clear definitions of key characteristics and their operationalization, we make two contributions in this article. First, we identify five core characteristics of RwLs: contribution to transformation, experimental methods, transdisciplinary research mode, scalability and transferability of results, as well as scientific and societal learning and reflexivity. Second, we compare RwLs to similar research approaches according to the five characteristics. In this way, we provide an orientation on experimental and transdisciplinary research for societal transformations, and reveal the contributions of this type of research in supporting societal change. Our findings enable learning across the different approaches and highlight their complementarities, with a particular focus on RwLs. T2 - Gaia VL - 27 Y1 - 2018 UN - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-69698 U6 - https://dx.doi.org/10.14512/gaia.27.S1.16 DO - https://dx.doi.org/10.14512/gaia.27.S1.16 IS - S1 SP - 85 EP - 96 ER -