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Co-creating services for smart cities
How Flexi Spaces work as a living lab
Helsinki Smart City evolves with climate positive pilots
Agile piloting accelerates development of resource-efficient urban lifestyles in Kalasatama smart district The Smart Kalasatama project underway in a new Helsinki inner-city district proceeds with agile piloting: five climate positive pilots focus on smart city parking and electric car charging, resident-generated solar power, urban green solutions, and the carbon footprint of households. The Kalasatama district is under construction at the site of a former commercial harbor. The City of Helsinki has designated the district as a platform for smart city development, Smart Kalasatama, involving new digital services to ease the lives of residents. One of the goals and benchmarks of>>>
Open Living Lab Days 2017 – Join us in Krakow on 31st of August
Date: Thursday 31.8 Time: 13.45 Venue: Open Living Lab Days, Krakow Technology Park Workshop: Co-creating services for smart cities – models, processes and ecosystems Workshop is organised by Smart Kalasatama Team and Laurea University of Applied Sciences Smart services are often created by several players and they require a wider ecosystem. The service ecosystem can be further developed during piloting phase together with the different stakeholders linked or engaged in the co-creation of the services. We have learnt that the co-creation events organised in the context of the pilots serve to engage and build a wider ecosystem. During this workshop,>>>
Flexispace Peer Review
During the last years many cities have experimented with the concept of ‘temporary use’ of vacant spaces. It has been an important source of innovation and a unique change in cities, being a motor for new forms of urbanity. In some cities it just occurred and cities let it happen, in others local authorities and other actors have actively looked for ways to facilitate the temporary and reuse of vacant spaces. European Union also sees the temporary use of spaces as an important theme and a valuable building block for the smarter cities. There are several projects receiving funding in>>>