The UDCW Facilitation toolkit is a family of participatory tools supporting knowledge sharing and co- production
The UDCW Facilitation toolkit is a family of participatory tools supporting knowledge sharing and co-production in a multi-stakeholder context, facilitating communication about urban climate resilience topics and bridging complex and science-based inputs with tacit knowledge. The tools are conceived to foster the dialogue between experts and non-expert and to match urban design solutions for mitigation and adaptation with everyday practices and needs of citizens and as well with capacity building issues of public administrations and decision makers.
The UDCW Facilitation toolkit supports the implementation of the Collaborative mapping and co- design phase of the UDCW Methodology. It can be used as a standalone toolkit (and its tools as standalone components for partial analyses), but provides significant additional outcomes if used in synergy with the UDCW Simulation toolkit.
Facilitation Tools for Urban Climate Resilience
Collaborative mapping
What is Collaborative
This process uses collaborative mapping (analog or digital) to gather data on climate risks, urban issues, and social factors, fostering expert-non-expert knowledge exchange for climate-resilient design.
Target Group
Communities, decision makers, policy-makers, city officials, local experts, practitioners, students, community leaders, NGOs, Third Sector, private stakeholders.
City visions and local needs matching
What is City Visions
This exercise helps identify local urban regeneration needs (housing, transport, services) and neighborhood opportunities for climate-resilient strategies, which are then synthesized into city visions.
Target Group
Communities, decision makers, policy-makers, city officials, local experts, practitioners, students, community leaders, NGOs, Third Sector, private stakeholders.
A day
in the life
What is a Day in life
This tool immerses participants in future city visions by having them adopt different personas. Experts guide the process as participants envision a day in the life of these personas, considering their needs and routines.
Target Group
Communities, decision makers, policy-makers, city officials, local experts, practitioners, students, community leaders, NGOs, Third Sector, private stakeholders
3D Neighbourhood Configurator
What is Neighbourhood
This tool provides a simple 3D modeling environment to generate and assess urban scenarios based on various qualitative and quantitative indicators. It aims to simplify climate modeling…
Target Group
Technical training: Architects, planners, engineers (Rhinoceros basics). Focus groups: Communities, decision-makers, officials, diverse stakeholders.
UDCW Methodology
The UDCW methodology focuses on sequential and iterative phases that lead to the development of the project through a multi-disciplinary and multi-scale approach. All phases of the methodology are implemented with the support of UCCRN multidisciplinary experts and urban stakeholders, defining an intervention model that combines knowledge-sharing and co-design actions with urban decision-makers and local communities together with the development of simulations based on computational design tools to control the main indicators that determine the performance of buildings and open spaces in relation to climatic stress conditions.
The UCCRN Urban Design Climate Workshop (UDCWs) aims to integrate design strategies for configuring or retrofitting compact and mixed-use eco-districts that can adapt and thrive in the changing global conditions, meet carbon-reduction goals and provide new public spaces and facilities in relation to community priorities. UCCRN UDCWs have been carried out since 2015 based on the climate-resilient design principles and methodological process introduced by the Urban Planning and Urban Design working group within the Second Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities (ARC3.2).
1. Climate and micro-climate analysis
“Climate and microclimate analysis mapping” identifies urban areas most affected by extreme events and seasonal variations, including local climate projections, as preliminary project information. Historical climate data and Regional Climate Models (RCMs) are processed through simulation models integrated into different design tools: GIS systems for city/district-level analyses, providing as output urban heat hotspots and flood zones; parametric 3D modelling tools (Rhinoceros+Grasshopper) assess technical solutions at the block/building scale, integrating climate-resilience aspects with other green building and environmental design criteria and benchmarks.
Who is Involved
2. Collaborative mapping and co-design
“Climate and microclimate analysis mapping” identifies urban areas most affected by extreme events and seasonal variations, including local climate projections, as preliminary project information. Historical climate data and Regional Climate Models (RCMs) are processed through simulation models integrated into different design tools: GIS systems for city/district-level analyses, providing as output urban heat hotspots and flood zones; parametric 3D modelling tools (Rhinoceros+Grasshopper) assess technical solutions at the block/building scale, integrating climate-resilience aspects with other green building and environmental design criteria and benchmarks.
Who is Involved
3. Planning and design
“Planning and design” is based on a critical review of the information collected to identify synergies and tradeoffs that can be implemented in relation to the planning initiatives envisaged by the local authorities. Urban plans and building regulations define the limits within which to develop the most appropriate technical-design strategies and solutions to achieve the set of objectives. Visual tools link multiple factors orienting local policy and transformative actions; meta- design layouts support the production of innovative solutions addressing climate change impacts while increasing environmental quality in cities.
Who is Involved
4. Post intervention evaluation
“Post-intervention evaluation” is intended as a sequence of activities to evaluate the benefits of the proposed solutions in terms of microclimate, energy and environmental performance, as well as compliance with community priorities. The tools include instruments for simulation-driven/indicator-based scenario comparisons, and for gathering direct feedback from residents and local stakeholders.
Who is Involved
Steps
Communities, decision makers, policy-makers, city officiels, NGOs please contact us for further informations
