What fundamental problem are you addressing?
CO-IMAGINE 5'D addresses the fundamental problem that the city of short distances is made impossible due to a lack of desirable offers. The initial hypothesis is that a significant proportion of the traffic volume is due to the fact that many people are unable to satisfy their basic needs locally. In Winterthur Grüze, development planning is to be used to test new approaches to shaping the future of 5-minute districts (5'D), including at the Grüze innovation laboratory [Innovation Hub] and on construction site 1 [New Station Square] at Winterthur Grüze station, which has been approved for temporary use (both identified as suitable sites from the urban potential analysis).
see overview in Grüze map of potential intervention areas (Drees&Sommer)
Which habits would you like to change or mainstream through which approach?
In CO-IMAGINE 5'D, the population and stakeholder groups are invited to select and spatially locate various missing urban functions and uses - such as street furniture, leisure objects or vegetation - using a digital platform, with the aim of reducing individual mobility needs. In combination with the planned participatory budget pilot project, innovative financing options such as crowdfunding are also to be tested. This combined approach should be considered, initiated and implemented as a social innovation process with relevant neighbourhood organizations.
What would you like to work on during the booster?
During the Innovation Booster Future Urban Society, the social innovation process is to be developed and implemented as part of a real-life laboratory. The focus here is on involving the local population and other important stakeholder groups as well as rapid testing under realistic conditions. A digital platform will be used to propose various missing urban functions and uses - such as street furniture, leisure objects or vegetation - in Winterthur Grüze. In a further step, innovative financing options in the form of a participatory budget and crowdfunding will be tested. This combined approach of CO-IMAGINE 5'D would enable the development and provision of new leisure facilities in a co-creative and participatory manner together with the stakeholders, in particular the local population. At the end of the booster, the social innovation process would be tested through to implementation in prototyping and a local real-world laboratory structure would be established, which would create local capacities in co-creation and participation in the long term. The experiences would be evaluated to optimize the social innovation process to ensure its relevance and applicability before scaling CO-IMAGINE 5'D to other cities and municipalities.