Zukunftsstadt Dresden

In 2015, the German Ministry for Education and Research has launched a Future City Competition, targeting at visionary concepts for urban development. More than 300 German municipalities have entered the contest with their initial concepts, 51 of which succeeded to the 2nd phase, which is to outline specific visions as well as a defined procedure for the implementation of appropriate visions (Urban Living Labs). With its project named ‘Open City’, Saxon state capital of Dresden was able to make it to the second phase. To support the ‘Open City’ project WISSENSARCHITEKTUR Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture has created an integrated tool- and method set which collects and organizes ideas from the citizenship, and qualifies them into visionary concepts. The visual tools were tested, validated and applied as to serve not only as means of communication, but also to form an instrumentarium for “Urban Visioneering”. It´s key novelty are visual descriptions and information structures that make complex future visions edible, accessible and understandable to experts and non-experts alike. A special project initiated and coordinated by the WISSENSARCHITEKTUR-team was the Dresden Future Tram, when two trams in Dresden were turned into rolling brainstorming labs. Here, in one day, Dresdner Citizens have created more than 700 ideas and visions for the future of their city.

Project Duration:
​10/2015 – 07/2016

Co-operation Partners:
Saxon State Capital Dresden, Head Mayor´s Office (www.dresden.de)
Department for Economic Development of Dresden

Co-ordinator:
Project Coordinator @ Head Mayor´s Office:
Norbert Rost
Email: 
Tel.: +49 351 488-2172

Team Coordinator @ WISSENSARCHITEKTUR Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture
Dr.-Ing. Jörg Rainer Noennig
Email:
Tel.: +49 351 463-32210

Team Members:
Dr.-Ing. Peter Schmiedgen


Florian Sägebrecht


Katrin Stephan


Dipl.-Ing. Anja Jannack

Milestones:
Dresden Future Tram 10/2015 (Newpaper Arcticle)
Intermediate Report 02/2016

Further Links:
Project Website