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“Co-Designing Climate-Resilient City Visions: A Participatory Approach to Urban Regeneration”
This exercise involves identifying and visualizing local needs related to urban regeneration priorities, such as housing, transportation, and social services. Facilitated by experts, participants explore opportunities in their neighborhood or district to address daily issues through climate-resilient strategies that are synthesized in city visions, such as the Green and Blue city, Circular city, Zero-Carbon city, 15 minutes city, and Disaster Resilient city.
Depending on the size of the focus group, on the level of detail desired, on UCDCW formats and on participants
OUTCOMES
City visions contextualized to the specific local context identifying how the general strategy can be adapted to the specific district/neighborhood according to social, cultural and spatial opportunities, needs and claims
OBJECTIVES
- Identify strategies for adaptation and mitigation to create a future city vision
- Visualize and address local needs in terms of urban regeneration priorities
- Highlight opportunities to respond to local needs and non-climate priorities with climate-resilient urban design and planning solutions
- Empowering citizens in expressing their individual needs also in consideration of societal goal
FACILITATORS
It can be guided and facilitated by experts and stakeholders (local experts, preferable with a background in urban disciplines) to provide input on non climate local needs and priorities
TARGET GROUP
Communities, decision makers, policy-makers, city officials, local experts, practitioners, students, community leaders, NGOs, Third Sector, private stakeholders
How to
BASELINE MATERIAL
PREPARATION
At this stage, experts prepare posters, presentations and dedicated cards about city visions (Green and Blue city, Circular city, Zero-Carbon city, 15 minutes city, Disaster Resilient city) to be delivered in a printed format.
Baseline material also includes printed posters and cards for each city visions, post-its, markers and flipchart paper.
PRESENTATION OF THE CITY VISIONS
Through a plenary presentation, participants will explore innovative ideas and strategies to shape the future of cities. In particular, experts will discuss the four city visions supported by the Metadesign framework
FOCUS GROUP FOR LOCAL PERSPECTIVES
In this session, we aim to gather valuable insights and perspectives from community members to better understand the needs and aspirations of the local area. Each team is associated with a specific city vision and has a facilitator who guides the focus group and directs the discussion to define potential solutions.
COLLABORATIVE
FINDINGS
A plenary session of all groups is set to share the results of the focus groups. One or more representatives of the group are encouraged to discuss the outcomes of each table and the facilitators support and coordinate the discussion, creating links and insights.
IDENTIFICATION OF URBAN STRATEGIES
The ultimate objective is the identification of strategies that could be integrated as adaptation and mitigation measures based on urban project priorities to create a future city vision contextualized to the specific local context.
Focus on – Presentation of the city visions
A GREEN-BLUE-CITY
Integrates natural systems to
provide urban greening and
ecological restoration, recreating a
natural water cycle and enhancing
the city’s aesthetics through green
and blue infrastructure in open
spaces and buildings.
A ZERO CARBON CITY
Relies on renewable energy,
passive design, and behavioral
changes to minimize energy
consumption, CO2 emissions,
and the carbon footprint of urban
activities.
A CIRCULAR CITY
transitions to a circular economy
through integrated collaboration
with citizens, businesses, and the
research community. It emphasizes
short supply chains, reduced
consumption, and recycling to
thrive rather than grow.
THE 15-MINUTES CITY
enables residents to meet their
needs within a short distance,
fostering social cohesion, local
economies, and reducing urban
mobility’s carbon footprint
How to – Focus Group
In this session, we aim to gather valuable insights and perspectives from community members to better understand the needs and aspirations of the local area.
Each team could reflect on a specific city vision or navigate through all of them. A facilitator guides the focus group and directs the discussion to define potential solutions for the city. The team is asked to place the proposed solutions on a backcasting matrix (timespan representation) or on the city visions canva.
MATERIALS
– A1 printed diagram with city visions (PDF file shaerd by facilitators)
– Sticky notes
– Canvas Matrix
– Markers
– Framework presentation (PPT, PDF)
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Communities, decision makers, policy-makers, city officiels, NGOs please contact us for further informations
