PACESETTERS Project’s Post

🚶♀️ At Layered City, we’re using a citizen-driven approach to tackle #mobility, #accessibility, and #sustainability challenges in urban planning – layer by layer. Watch the video to discover how we’re creating more inclusive places! Based at Vienna University of Technology, we’re collaborating with vulnerable groups represented by AccessAustria and Amazing 15, and expert groups like Community Creates Mobility to tackle the pressing challenges related to mobility and movement. 🌍 Key Milestones: ✅ Conducted 10 city walks with 250+ high school students through WIENXTRA Ehrenamtswoche. ✅ Mapped mobility barriers in Vienna with visually impaired groups, supported by AccessAustria. ✅ Joined the Municipality of Kalamata, Greece in efforts to reimagine a public park using citizen engagement. ✅ Engaged children through #KinderUni Technik 2024, incorporating drawings and games to make participatory mapping fun and meaningful. ✅ Communicated our research at major events like the EU Researchers' Night, Life is Science ✅ Earned recognition by becoming an EU finalist at the EU Sparks for Climate Championship, and incubated at the TU Wien Innovation Incubation Center (i²c). Congrats to the team that made all this possible Androniki Pappa Angelos Chronis Domagoj Krhen Stanislava Fedorova 🌈 eveline wandl-vogt Huge thank you to Nikolina Žabčić for taking the effort to make the video! Together, we’re striving to make cities more inclusive and sustainable for all. #LayeredCity #UrbanInnovation #CitizenScience #InclusiveCities

DREAM_PACE challenge at the Technische Universität Berlin and BGI - Sustainable Ventures winter school held in #Aveiro (Portugal)!   Together with BGI - Sustainable Ventures from Lisbon and the Universidade de Aveiro, Technische Universität Berlin invited 35 students across Europe for the #Innov4Mobility winter school on latest trends in urban mobility and research.   “How to reconnect Europe’s rural regions” was the DREAM_PACE challenge set by TU Berlin. 6 students discussed mobility services nowadays and worked on a business idea on #DRT (Demand Responsive Transport) in rural regions. The aim was to develop a social-technological solution to provide villages of the Hinterland with mobility provision.   As a result, the group developed - in February 2024 - their DRT-platform CommuniRide in line the principles of blue zones (where people live especially long and healthy) and the integration of local business. #CominiRide does not only aim to guarantee mobility services but also envisions DRT as a collective space of social interaction.  

I had the opportunity to be part of these Scientific Days PEPR VDBI. A strong transversal and ambitious program through the value chain to accelerate the deployment of the sustainable cities strategy. Thanks all for the very interesting discussions and further connections with the PN ISSU (IREX (Institut) - Institut pour la recherche appliquée et l'expérimentation en génie civil #sustainability, #cities, #water, #biodiversity, #UHI

The three-day #insituconference conference provided a great opportunity for connecting with researchers, artists and cultural entrepreneurs from different geographies who focus on the role of cultural practices, policies and creative industries in the sustainable development of rural areas. One of the most important questions of my research project is understanding the cultural impact of creative urban groups on the rural areas where they are located. In this context, I shared my findings from fieldwork conducted in Turkey's southern Aegean towns, reflecting on the sociospatial dynamics of ex-urbanites’ creative occupations, and analyzing their relationships with local rural communities. It seems that cultural impact analysis will gain more significance in the coming period. One of the most valuable outcomes of the conference for me was the opportunity to exchange ideas with organizations preparing to work on this topic. Another key takeaway for me was the importance of reflecting more on cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral dimensions of cultural and creative industries to better understand the practices and productions of creative urban communities in rural areas. Many thanks to the entire IN SITU team for organizing this wonderful conference! #insituconference #creativeruralities #culturalimpactanalysis #ruralgentrification #networkedspaces #sustainabledevelopment #ruralcommunities #exurbancommunities #MSCA #postdoctoralfellowship

The Netherlands, recognised as a European leader in #innovation, is home to more than 100 experimental environments. These environments range from controlled field labs to more open, participatory urban living labs. A consortium, including Alfons van Marrewijk (MBE), has been awarded a prestigious #grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). They want to explore how various forms of innovation in field labs such as the Green Village, in urban living labs such as AMS Institute's Energielab Zuidoost in Amsterdam, and in all kinds of civic initiatives contribute to #sustainability transitions. How can you mainstream innovations from experiments? Read more: https://lnkd.in/eju53_tC NWO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) | #sustainabletransition

We just spent a week in Pontevedra attending the 10th Degrowth Conference organized by the Conferencia Internacional ESEE-Decrecemento 2024 Pontevedra. 🏓 From theory to practice: The recent conference not only had us discussing the fascinating world of Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics in relation to our own design practice, but gave us insights into a multitude of approaches around #degrowth and #postgrowth from different disciplines outside of our own. 🏥 Health and Degrowth: one of our big topic at KITE is the co-development of health systems and products together with innovation companies, doctors, nurses, patients and other stakeholder. We were happy to see the topic of "Caring for health within planetary boundaries" was being discussed in a panel with Arianna Rotulo, Hans Eickhoff, Judith Bueno De Mesquita and Shivani Kaul. 🎯 We had a lively discussion with participants when presenting a paper on a perspective on degrowth in design research, and did an experimental #audiowalk on the topic of "sustainability by default" we had a lot of fun conducting with some of the participants of the conference. Miriam Lahusen Marie Beuthel Florian Sametinger Alexander Müller-Rakow Anne Wohlauf Iva Karabatic #sustainability #sustainabledesign #designresearch #researchthroughdesign #degrowth #sustainabilitybydefault #pontevedra #universityofvigo #esee Check out more of our projects here: www.kite.design

On May 17th, the Politecnico di Torino hosted the #Unite!Widening workshop. The event aimed to inform about the future perspectives, challenges and funding opportunities of the #Climate-Neutral and #Smart Cities, EU Mission. 👣 JUST STREETS was invited as one of the MISS-CIT projects currently active in North-West Italy, to share our experience and give some examples about how cities can take advantage of the EU Mission opportunities. 🤝The JUST STREETS' coordinator Giulia Melis showed how the project is involving local, regional and national authorities, citizens and businesses to support the pathway towards climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030. 🚴♂️ 🏃♀️ 👬 JUST STREETS is involving 12 cities, six of which are part of the Mission, and is helping them to become significant Experimentation and Innovation Hubs to enable all European cities to follow it by 2050. 🗣 A stimulating debate moderated by Roberto Zanino - Principal Investigator UNITE.Widening project (Politecnico di Torino) and Federico Bosia (WP2 coordinator) followes, with interventions from Barbara Widera, Member of Mission Board of EU Mission Adaptation to climate change (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology), Paulo Ferrão Member of Mission Board of EU Mission 100 Climate neutral and smart cities (Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon) and Andrea Lanzini Principal Investigator TIPS4PED (Turning cities Planning actionS for Positive Energy Districts into success) project (Politecnico di Torino). 👀 Check our Mission Cities: Município de Braga, City of Amsterdam, Città metropolitana di Milano, Riga, Go Vilnius, City of Westminster 🌱 #ClimateNeutralCities #SmartCities #PolitecnicoDiTorino #JUSTSTREETS 📷 of Lorenzo Carrus – Politecnico di Torino

We're thrilled to announce that Dr. Aline Margaux Laucke Laucke from TUM International will be speaking at the Sustainable Lifestyles Festival 2024 in Tashkent on September 19th! She will explore the critical role of Sustainable Innovation Ecosystems at universities in driving change and shaping a more sustainable future. Universities play a unique and essential role in advancing the ambitious global agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through their education, research, and operational practices. Their active involvement is key to fostering sustainability for all. The Annual Sustainable Lifestyles Festival is part of the UN Environment Programme Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Initiative (GO4SDGs), which focuses on empowering youth to adopt sustainable lifestyles and accelerate the achievement of the 2030 Agenda. Since 2022, GO4SDGs has partnered with Deutsch-Kasachische Universität (DKU) to establish the Sustainable Lifestyles University Network (SLUN) in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. This network now includes 28 universities dedicated to sharing ideas, best practices, and innovative solutions for embedding sustainability at the heart of university life, in collaboration with governments, civil society, the scientific community, and the private sector. 🌍 Interested in sustainability in Central Asia and Caucasus? Join us online or in person at the Festival to be part of the conversation and contribute to a sustainable future! Register here: https://lnkd.in/dsZV-HkN #Sustainability #SustainableDevelopment #InnovationEcosystems #YouthEmpowerment #GO4SDGs #SLUN #UniversitiesForSDGs #SustainableLifestyles #2030Agenda

🌊💧Are you an artist and passionate about sustainability? Apply now for one of our 20 residencies and collaborate with experts to tackle water challenges through art and technology.     Deadline: June 26, 2024.   Budget: 40.000€ per residency.    This is your chance to turn ideas into impactful artworks and be part of the solution! Take advantage of this opportunity to make an impact with your ideas and work.     S+T+ARTS4WaterII builds on the success of S+T+ARTS4WaterI to tackle the environmental and societal challenges within Europe's ports and port cities. 🌍 Join us on a journey to drive innovation and promote sustainability in water management within port ecosystems.     S+T+ARTS4WaterII is initiated by the European Commission and the United Nations. The consortium uses advanced digital technologies to explore sustainable solutions in port ecosystems, leveraging lessons from the previous project. Focused on clean water as a fundamental right and aligned with UN SDGs 6 and 14, the project engages industry professionals, researchers, artists, designers, policymakers, and local communities.     The consortium partners include Vito Ferreri, Camargo Foundation, @Corrêa Infra, Dublin City University, drugo more, Waag Futurelab, @TBA21, OGR, @PiNA, Festival Beta and @Klimat Biennale - Kunsthaus Wien.    #STARTS4WaterII #OpenCall #ArtAndTechnology #Sustainability #WaterManagement #Innovation 

💫 Call for Abstracts for the MSCA CORAL-ITN Final Conference Exploring the impacts of collaborative workspaces in rural and peripheral areas in the EU; new horizons for regional socio-economic development 🔍 Thematic areas: - CWS impacts on local businesses/ freelancers - CWS and their role in local business/ innovation ecosystems and other regional networks - Wider social and cultural impacts of CWS in rural areas - CWS as intermediate learning spaces, spaces for NEETs and alternative modes of education  - Labour arrangements and collaborative production in rural CWS  well-being in CWS - Inclusive workplace, women-centred or women-only CWS  social innovation processes in rural CWS - CWS as tools for local/ regional development policies - The diverse functions of CWS in rural areas ⌛ Submit your abstract until the 6th of September 2024 More info here 👇 https://lnkd.in/d_UTN7EH