Laboratoire de l'innovation urbaine de Montréal

The Laboratoire de l’innovation urbaine de Montréal (Montréal urban innovation lab - LIUM for short) promotes emerging solutions to address urban issues, strengthen equity and accelerate Montréal’s ecological transition through collaboration between city staff, partners and the population at large.

Leveraging data  

LIUM uses data to help individuals and society make informed decisions. Public access to this data fosters the development of more inclusive and sustainable urban projects, as well as democracy and civic participation. Data can be used in many ways, such as developing tools and applications in several areas, including how we get around (networks, traffic obstructions, bike traffic, etc.), housing sanitation, crime and air quality.  

A co-creation approach  

To generate and test new ideas, LIUM organizes workshops with a project’s stakeholders, who may include the public at large, businesses municipal staff and partners, in order to understand everyone’s needs and design a solution.  

Testing new technologies and solutions  

LIUM members research and test solutions and evaluate their social and institutional impact to launch new projects, solutions and services for the entire population. For example, the LocoMotion neighbourhood mobility project was tested in a few different neighbourhoods before being rolled out across Montréal. 

Sharing knowledge 

Visit the open data Web site (in French). 

Learn more about “Montréal in Common” projects, experiments and solutions on the Praxis Web site (in French)