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On April, 26th Q8 – a planning agency focusing on inclusive urban development) organised a forum to discuss transportation issues in the development area of Mitte Altona. The event brought together people with a stake in mobility and mobility planning and the existing community “A centre for all” (Eine Mitte für Alle) [the name playsRead more

Germany annually organises a “Girls and Boys Day” on the fourth Thursday in April. They day is meant to provide young girls and boys with some perspectives on new career paths and let them know about professional fields that are outside of traditional disciplines. In the frame of this year’s Girls and Boys Day onRead more

Üsküdar’s Citizen Mobility Lab is officially open! On the 3rd of May at 3 p.m. (local time) the Municipality of Üsküdar opened the doors of its Lab “Keşfet Üsküdar / Discover Üsküdar” to the citizens. The launch of the Lab involved participants to previous project activities, neighbourhood authorities, representatives of the civil society and experts. TheRead more

In late January, the Cities-4-People consortium met for a workshop in Bergen aan Zee, Netherlands. The workshop, led by project partner Waag Society, provided tools and training to help aid local pilots in setting up their mobility labs and hosting their co-creation sessions. The workshop lasted for just over three days before our partners returnedRead more

Do you have any idea about the transport challenges of the upper quay in Buda? Or do you know how we can get the Danube closer to people? From May to October, we plan on a variety of locations on DumaParton. Come join them and make your ideas heard! Your opinion matters. Check thew agendaRead more

The Mobility Lab in Oxford was launched on 28th of March at the Barton Neighbourhood Centre. The Centre is a great location insofar as it is close to the project intervention area and, therefore, relevant to people attending the centre. As a matter of fact, Cities-4-People settled on the Eastern side of the city ofRead more

On March, 28th the Cities-4-People Hamburg team participated in the Altona Climate Protection Plan with the newly set-up Citizen Mobility Lab. The Lab’s aim fit nicely in the overall goal of the Climate Protection Plan, which is developing local approaches that can reduce greenhouse gases and resource consumption in Altona. Differently from the Labs inRead more

Max Kortlander (researcher and assistant project manager at Waag Society) interviewed some of the Cities-4-People project partners during our methodology workshop in Bergen aan Zee and invited them to share their views on the project: George from Trikala collaborated enthusiastically and you can read his interview below. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ “If I had asked people what they wanted,Read more

The orthodox image that comes to mind is a clean, sterile space filled with beakers, bunsen burners, and white-clothed scientists. There’s not a lot of talking in this lab—the scientists here weigh out solutions, read the bottom of their miniscuses, and enter their data in a stoic silence. The orthodox lab described above serves aRead more

  As the project name highlights, the focus of Cities-4-People is people. More precisely, the project aims to establish local Citizen Mobility Communities that are willing to work on local mobility issue and collaborate towards viable solutions. Therefore, a series of 3 “warm-up” events such as info-days, meetings and neighbourhood gatherings in each of theRead more