The Healthy Living Lab Dokkum is a co-creative project, meant to maximize the potential health effects of inhabitants and visitors in existing spatial (re)design projects opting for an integrative approach to health and based on stakeholder participation. Our main goal is to consider if areas, confronted with population decline and ageing, such as the northeast of Friesland, can make use of and stimulate already present elements of positive health (open space, clean air and clean water as well as small, robust communities). Moreover, we want to investigate how the integration of health into existing spatial (re)design projects may contribute to healthy regions in terms of lifestyle and behaviour.