Campunity is a project implemented by Tampere University's Knowledge Centre for Real Estate Development (KCRED) that focuses on campus housing as a part of urban integrated innovation districts. The research will produce academic understanding to living, social infrastructure and the ties in innovation ecosystems as well as useful models for decision making in co-developments between the city, universities and organisations.
Background
Increasingly, university and college campuses have developed into innovation ecosystems that combine research, learning, entrepreneurship and urban development. Recent research highlights that innovation activity is moving from traditional, decentralized business parks towards dense and urban integrated innovation districts.
However, the role of housing in the everyday life of innovation activity has rarely been studied. In particular, there is a research gap in the relationship between campus housing and innovation districts and its goal-oriented development as part of the innovation ecosystem strategy. By designing housing as part of the innovation district - not as a separate functional block located on the edge of the campus - an environment can be created where housing, studying, research, entrepreneurship and urban life are intertwined.
Goal
The goal of Campunity is to structure the role of campus housing as the innovation district's social and spatial platform, and to develop a campus housing business model that helps to implement concepts in a financial and controllable way as part of the development of the innovation district in the long run.
Funders and Co-operators
Tampere University
SSA Rakennus Oy
Creo Capital Oy
Helsingin seudun opiskelija-asuntosäätiö sr (Hoas)
City of Vantaa