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Description
Nordic municipalities are providing policies for reducing pollution, building more healthy and liveable spaces and reducing climate change impacts. However, municipalities have limited resources and institutional hindrance for innovative policy approaches.
During the last decades, the main approach to tackle environmental challenges was to harness innovative technologies and to acquire knowledge through data mining strategies. The problem of this approach is that the human aspects like the perception of the space or the human interaction with technology have been not a focus point.
NordicPATH’s strategy focuses on bringing together a wide range of stakeholders in the process of socio-technological change required by planners and designers to provide the built environment and the services that will shape future sustainable cities with a human-centred approach. Exploring a living lab method, NordicPATH demonstrates that technologies can facilitate processes of collaborative co-design of solutions to shape sustainable cities.
Environmental co-monitoring using sensor systems and participatory urban planning using PPGIS engage citizens in the co-design of solutions. NordicPATH bridges the challenges of policy actors to rethink and redesign solutions for reducing urban pollution and negative impacts of climate change of cities with citizens and researchers by exploring urban living labs in Nordic cities (Aalborg, Gothenburg, Kristiansand, Lappeenranta) identifying a set of themes as wood burning, densification, mobility, and public shared spaces.
The outcomes of the Nordic Living Labs will provide insights on the challenges and opportunities for a participatory method and collaborative planning in the Nordic countries to create (more) healthy and people-centred cities.
| GDPR complianced | Yes |
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| I am willing and able to travel to Norway unless Covid-19 restrictions prevent me from traveling to Stavanger. | YES |
