Smart Participation (MPSC IQ DD)
Program: MPSC
Lead: TUD Knowledge Architecture, Office of Urban Strategy, International Affairs and Citizenship, Citizen Affairs Department
Runtime: 2022 - 2026
Team: Anja Jannack; Paul Stadelhofer; Andreas Wilde
Partners: City of Dresden
Smart Participation is a subproject of the Model Project Smart City Dresden.
The project goals are
- to support "Dresden's Smart Citizenship" in communicating directly with the city administration on various topics
- to get involved in the neighbourhood and citywide through innovative and experimental participation formats.
Specifically, the aims are to
- strengthen citizen participation in Dresden with thematically open, low-threshold digital formats.
- address citizens in their identification spaces [their neighbourhoods] through a timely geo-referenced survey of opinion on current, spatially related topics (including urban planning and construction projects).
- support the project through the use and further development of mutual preparatory work, methods and toolsets (U_CODE & Zukunftsstadt).
- further develop the citizens' laboratory into a physical-digital interface between citizenoriented communication and innovative administration (a "real laboratory" for testing digital equipment: including citizen terminals, data cockpits, and interactive info elements). • develop a digital participation concept for the state capital Dresden.
"Future train"
To involve citizens and interested parties with a more low affinity for digital media in the conceptual work, the format of the "Future Trains" was implemented in cooperation with the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) on January 14 and 17, 2023. Here, three regularly running trains became idea labs for passengers to contribute their thoughts on Smart City Dresden "out of motion." The passengers noted their ideas and hints on sticky notes in the train and pinned them to posters on carriage windows. For the format the DVB and the Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture selected three trainlines that cross all targeted model neighbourhoods and reach the city outskirts (north-south line 7, east-west lines 1, 10/12). So it was possible to include passengers from all model neighbourhoods in the problem analysis as a cross-section of the population. Also it supports the awarness for the Smart City model project. The survey focused not on Smart City topics in the narrower sense but on relevant subjects of neighbourhood development and district design, e.g. sustainability, social justice or digitalization.
U_CODE: Starting in the summer of 2022, the first "smart participation" formats were designed and implemented. The first process was realized at the "Dresden Long Night of Science" on July 8, 2022, with a digital co-design campaign. For this purpose the Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture opened digital participation playgrounds, in which visions of the future and design options for Dresden's urban space, but above all, for the envisaged model quarters were collected. Therefore, three model neighbourhoods (Johannstadt, Friedrichstadt and the expanded Dresden East/Prohlis) were created as 3D models from open data. So it is possible to use them further in the implementation phase. The digital participation platform U_CODE used for this purpose has been used since July 2022 for initial co-design campaigns as part of the sub-project "Smart Participation" for the model city district Prohlis (model district Dresden East).
Further Information:
Thematic Website of the Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture
U_Code Urban Co-Design