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Almost as a celebration for Cities-4-People first birthday, between March and May we had five different events which inaugurated the Citizen Mobility Labs in our five pilot areas: Hamburg-Altona, Oxford-Barton, Trikala, Istanbul-Uskudar, and Budapest. The five Citizen Mobility Labs are inspired to the successful paradigm of the Amsterdam Smart Citizens Lab: they are inclusive, accessible, welcomingRead more

Cities-4-People is about participatory processes and co-creation. In the project, co-creative processes concern the identification of critical intervention areas, the definition of local mobility challenges and the design, prototyping and piloting of solutions. Yet, there is an additional edge to co-creation: we want to involve citizens not only in creating the solutions, but also inRead 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

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