Model Project Smart City Dresden
Program: BMWSB
Lead: City of Dresden
Runtime: 2022 - 2026
Team: Jörg Noennig; Anja Jannack; Paul Stadelhofer; Filipe Mello Rose; Swati Kulashri
Partners: EbIT City of Dresden
With the Model Projects Smart Cities (MPSC) funding program, the Federal Government supports municipalities in designing strategic digitalization relating to an integrated, sustainable, and public welfare-oriented urban development. The Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development, and Building (BMWSB) provides the funding. Currently, the Federal Government is funding 73 Smart Cities model projects, which have been selected in three seasons since 2019.
The cooperation between the City of Dresden (project management: Eigenbetrieb IT Dienstleistungen) and WISSENSARCHITEKTUR - the Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture (scientific management) of the TU Dresden continues the work on several projects of strategic urban development, such as “Zukunftsstadt DRESDEN”.
The Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture has been researching the topic of digital urban development for around ten years and has developed expertise and technical formats in participation and co-design in numerous national and international research projects. The Dresden city administration, such as the already existing "Smart City" department in the Office for Economic Development and stakeholders from science, business, and civil society, had already jointly pursued diverse smart city approaches before this application.
The very-good positioning in the smart-city ranking of the German industry association Bitkom (2022: rank 3) is an incentive to develop the different potentials of a Smart City Dresden. In the Smart City Dresden Model Project, smart-city measures already implemented and newly planned ones should be structured and evaluated within a smart-city strategy.
The Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture carried out the subproject Strategy Development in the first phase (January 2022- June 2023) of the Smart City Dresden model project. In a broad variety of other participatory measures, experts from various specialized offices clarified boundary conditions, including already existing Smart City measures in the considerations, and formulated conceptual approaches.
In a broad variety of other participatory measures, experts from various specialized offices clarified boundary conditions, including already existing Smart City measures in the considerations, and formulated conceptual approaches. With the help of special participation formats of the Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture, relevant actors from civil society, business, and science reflected upon and evaluated these approaches. It resulted in a strategic vision with specific Smart City measures model-tested in three districts of Dresden, the so-called Intelligent Quarters. In the implementation phase, the scientists will continuously evaluate the strategy and optimize it in terms of impact and project synthesis.
Further Information:
Thematic Website of the Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture
MPSC-Website of City Dresden