Multiplicative imagination of citizens and stakeholders towards the 15 minutes City MULTIGINATION DUT

Project goal is to gain new research information on the characteristics of 15mCity related to livable cities and give input to participating companies companies Research activities and simultaneously  obtain as many products as possible from Finnish companies for the new and international marketplace being developed and piloted in the DUT project. The products and solutions must be suitable for the target market and support the objectives of the DUT project, such as sustainable development. The DUT project investigates and pilots a new type of marketplace that involves citizens, particularly guiding public procurement.”

The project MULTIGINATION provides an innovative process and tools for empowering the multiplicative imagination of public spaces and streets, leading to actual urban interventions towards sustainability. Car parking spaces, public transport stops and mobility hubs, waste and reuse collection containers, package exchange stations, additional services of decentralised public offices are reshaped in the use-cases (embedding the 15mC goals) of an horizontal process (involving experts, citizens, private companies, researchers, NGOs and city authorities). Covering from visualisation to evaluation, funding and execution, this process is codified for transferability. Basic and advanced (public and private) services are co-designed in Living Labs and localised in critical areas by a participatory process embedding a proven open-access visualisation tool of the built and non-built environment, multiplied by a marketplace of innovative solutions and a crowdfunding platform. Citizens’ proposals can be budgeted. The cities select what actually to implement, keeping into account this "participatory urbanism" and all other constraints (zero emission and other goals, laws, stakeholder interests, ownership rights, etc.). Cities can co-finance the investment, look for private investors, draw on crowdfunding campaigns and use part of the Call funds. In other terms, we are setting up a replicable movement of constant improvements of the urban landscape by fostering the multiplicative involvement of all actors.