ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the experimentation with and documentation and analysis of a diverse range of Live Projects, discussed in relation to Lave and Wenger's theory of situated learning via a process of legitimate peripheral participation and findings from OB1 LIVE, the authors' programme of Live Projects. The projects demonstrate the reasoning behind the authors identification of six factors needed to make a project 'live'. From an initial analysis of the first fifteen different Live Project case studies on the network from Oxford Brookes University, McGill School of Architecture, Montreal, and the University of Portsmouth the authors saw that even very diverse project types shared the six factors that the authors had identified. In 2012 the authors established the Live Projects Network, an international online network of Live Projects to connect students, academics, practitioners and external collaborators involved in Live Projects.
