Imagine trying to fix a neighborhood but only talking to the mayor, ignoring the people who actually live there. This project creates a way for city officials and residents to design housing and parks together as equals. It's like moving from a 'top-down' lecture to a 'round-table' conversation to ensure everyone's needs are met.
Urban developers and city authorities often face fierce community resistance and trust deficits when implementing housing or environmental projects in deprived areas, leading to project delays and failures.
A repository of resources and 8 active urban labs that produce alternative expertise through collective mapping, surveys, and co-evaluation mechanisms.
If you are an urban regeneration firm dealing with local opposition to new housing projects — this project developed co-production models that reduce power asymmetries. This helps you gain community trust and avoid costly planning delays by designing with residents rather than for them.
If you are a climate risk assessment agency dealing with inaccurate local data in deprived areas — this project developed 'Fairville Labs' for collective mapping and surveys. This provides high-quality, ground-level data to improve the accuracy of environmental risk reports.
If you are a GovTech provider dealing with low citizen engagement in digital portals — this project developed a repository of resources and 'words in action' for participatory democracy. You can integrate these co-evaluation mechanisms into your software to improve how cities manage public action.
Based on available project data, no specific pricing or cost structures for the models are provided.
Yes, the project is already testing these in 8 Fairville Labs across cities like London, Berlin, and Dakar to encourage policy transfer.
Based on available project data, there is no mention of patents or specific licensing terms; the focus is on a repository of resources and open co-production.
The project focuses on improving democratic processes in housing and environmental planning to reduce inequalities and rebuild trust in political institutions.
The project period runs from 2023-01-01 to 2026-12-31.
The consortium is heavily weighted toward non-academic and community-based entities, with 10 'Other' organizations and 3 SMEs, making up a significant portion of the 19 partners. With an industry ratio of 16%, the group is designed for social implementation rather than rapid commercialization, leveraging a wide geographic spread across 9 countries to ensure the models work in different regulatory environments.
Contact the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in France
Contact us to find the specific co-production toolkits from the 8 Fairville Labs.
