Speaker
Description
Many cities, including Amsterdam, have adopted the mission towards climate-neutral and socially innovative cities. To this purpose, Amsterdam funds, supports and participates in many research and innovation (R&I) projects across the city. These projects address a wide variety of innovations in different domains (technical, economic, social, governance and planning). AUAS is involved as multi-disciplinary knowledge partner in many of these projects.
Bridging the gap between R&I and city policy makers and planning, as well as other stakeholders that are involved in policy design (informed policy making) has always been a challenge. The increasing complex multi-domain and multi-disciplinary character of R&I makes this gap even more stringent. Policy makers need to understand not only what the contribution of innovations could be towards public policy objectives in the different domains, but also have inisght the interaction, synergy and trade-offs between the domains. In particular, this concerns the technological climate change mitigation innovations, on the one hand, and social policies, on the other. Often, policy makers do not even have a structured overview of everything that is happening in the city in R&I.
We will explore different qualitative and quantitative approaches, including mapping approaches, theories of change, integrative urban models and other meta-level methodologies to address this gap. This will include the 2050 City Vision as a synthesis method that will be developed in Amsterdam’s ongoing project on positive energy districts. Experiences from other cities will be collected. These approaches will consider the information needs of the city planners and policy makers.
| I am willing and able to travel to Norway unless Covid-19 restrictions prevent me from traveling to Stavanger. | YES |
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| GDPR complianced | Yes |
