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In the past six months we attended several academic and non-academic conferences to discuss the methodological approach we have adopted in Cities-4-People, talk about co-creation and exchange on participatory processes, collective intelligence and (digital) social innovation. We travelled to a large number of countries ranging from Italy to Delft, from The Netherlands to Germany, andRead more

Several things have happened in parallel in the past months. You may have read about our events and the concepts that were selected for piloting as a result. You may have read about our scientific engagement and contribution to various conferences and panels on mobility and participatory processes. Do you know we have also workedRead more

Almost seven months ago, we were celebrating the launch of our Citizen Mobility Labs: it was a big milestone, but we still did not know what would have come out of them. Over the summer, the Labs started working at full speed with own events, such as the Presentation Days (one per location: Budapest, Hamburg,Read more

If you have followed our blogposts or taken part in the activities of one of our Citizen Mobility Labs, you know what is behind us (if you do not, you can still catch up by reading our third newsletter). The question is: what lies ahead? For sure, it won’t be a calm period for theRead more

Last semester, we have not simply organised events and co-created concepts that can help solve some of the most urgent mobility challenges in our five pilot areas. We have also written quite some pages in order to document all what we have been doing. We would like that this experience continues after the project ends,Read more

Together with another 100 participants (planners, environmentalists, architects, engineers, policy-makers, economists and project managers), Cities-4-People attended the 10th International conference on Sustainable Development and Planning last September (4-6) at the University of Siena in Italy. Our presence at the event was not just mere attendance: we also wanted to talk about our People-Oriented Transport andRead more

In the past week, the Cities-4-People teams in the different pilot areas were busy organising meetings and events. It was not just the usual September frenzy, when everyone is back from holiday and life goes back to normal. For us it was a special moment: we were on the verge of selecting the concepts thatRead more

Do you still remember the beginning of last summer? Where were you and what were you doing? We were organising five Presentation Days, one per pilot area. Maybe you attended one of them and you know what we are talking about. Maybe you did not and you wonder what it was. We wanted to haveRead more

Between 15 and 18 October the whole Cities-4-People consortium met in Trikala to recap any progress made up to that moment and discuss the steps forward. Can you imagine that we are already midway in the project? Time flies! Reaching Trikala was a small adventure in itself for all the partners. Definitely fitting a projectRead more

Last summer each of our five pilot areas organised an Hack Day. What for? To involve the largest possible number of people in choosing their favourite mobility intervention, either commenting on and voting for existing ones or suggesting new ones. The idea behind the event was for each pilot to have, by the end ofRead more