CREATIVITY X TECH X CITY, the multidisciplinary event series highlighting the innovation potential of creative expertise, is launching its fourth challenge. As part of the Digital Creative Industries & Beyond project, the event promotes bold, cross-sector collaboration between creative professionals, technologists, researchers, cities, and companies.
Events theme ‘’spatial solutions in urban environments’’ features a set of real-world challenges designed to inspire new RDI projects. Each challenge tackles a different aspect of city life, from revitalizing physical spaces to reshaping how we collaborate on urban development.
The fourth challenge is titled “Designing the City Together”, presented by the Finnish company Interract. The challenge calls for a digital solution to improve collaboration between professionals during the early stages of urban planning. We are in a phase where decisions shape the long-term quality, usability, and sustainability of our cities.
Urban environments are rarely created by a single hand. Engineers, planners, architects, and designers all play a role. However, their collaboration is often fragmented or hierarchical, because engineers are taking the lead, and designers are brought in too late to influence foundational choices. That is what Interract wants to shift in this paradigm.
“We believe in multidisciplinary co-creation. Our cities deserve planning processes that bring together technical expertise and human-centered design thinking from the very beginning,” the company states.
The challenge is to develop a creative, digital solution that facilitates meaningful collaboration between different urban planning stakeholders.
The proposed solution could take various forms:
What matters most is that the solution:
Participants are encouraged to think creatively about how digital tools can help engineers, designers, and planners work more effectively together, and even include residents in the process where appropriate.
The CREATIVITY X TECH X CITY event is part of the Digital Creative Industries & Beyond (DCIB) project, operated by the City of Helsinki and in collaboration with Metropolia University of Applied Sciences and Aalto University.
The DCIB project supports:
The project is co-funded by the European Union.
Taina Seitsara
Project Manager
Business Helsinki
taina.seitsara@hel.fi
Sinna Marjamaa
Project Specialist
Business Helsinki
sinna.marjamaa@hel.fi
