Dwellers in Agile Cities is a research consortium funded by the Academy of Finland Strategic Reseach Council for the years 2016-2019. The project consists over 20 researchers from different institutions working on six subprojects. The subprojects focus on sustainable urban development. In the project, we map the future megatrends and weak signals of future urbanization.
We also carry out action research within socially diverse and ecologically sustainable solutions. The variety of urban interaction as a platform for robust urbanization is scrutinized during the project. We also aim to create spatial examples of innovative and flexible housing and living.
Background
In the first phase we create an analysis of interesting and promising international cases applicable in the Finnish context together with our international research partners. Via co-design we will also scrutinize the Finnish case studies and needs of different dweller groups. In the second phase we move onto analysing experimental cases and practices of living, housing and urban mobility. The third phase is the creation of a roadmap to agile cities.
We do not aim to produce one set of practices or a model, but aim to highlight the potentials of urbanization in which the city works as a platform for different possibilties and flows of living, working and dwelling. http://www.agilecities.fi/ratkaisut/julkaisut/
Goal
The objective of the DACproject is to recognize future living needs and create novel models for cooperation between varied actors, such as housing companies, immigrants, elderly, remote workers, construction companies, housing estates and state and city officials. Changes in these collaborations are severely needed in Finnish cities for maintaining the economic, ecological and social attractiveness.
This project defines the dweller as a key driver of urban development and change. Urban dwellers ways to live in and use the city creates pressures for urban planning and the housing markets in cities. DAC-project focuses on this urban mosaic of needs and creates measures for improving social urban development, with particular interest on experiments and innovation, new partnership formations, hybrid housing solutions and flexible ideas about collaboration.
From urban design viewpoint, we will create solutions, which respond to several social and cultural needs of citizens and are replicable in other cities.
Funding source
Academy of Finland
Contact persons
Helena Leino
Adjunct Professor, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy / project leader
helena.leino [at] uta.fi
+358 40 190 9751
Mikko Kyrönviita
Coordinator / researcher
mikko.kyronviita [at] uta.fi
+358 50 509 9026