NITRA

ART AND ENVIRONMENT HUB

In Nitra, creativity and nature merged.

On this page you will learn about the results of the Visionary and Integrated Solutions (VIS) implemented in this pilot city during the course of the IN-HABIT project, both in aggregate and for each specific solution. But before you do so, here is a more human perspective on these results: the words of Edo, one of the local participants whose life was touched by INHABIT.

IN-HABIT LEGACY

In this presentation, Katarína Melichová from the Slovak University of Agriculture presents the development of a Reversible Multifunctional Open-source Urban Landscape in Nitra as part of the IN-HABIT project.

The talk showcases how flexible and adaptive green infrastructure can foster inclusive urban spaces, support community well-being, and encourage environmental awareness. Emphasis is placed on co-creation, low-cost design, and the potential for replicability in other urban contexts.

OUTCOMES

• 16,000m2 of new/renewed green space delivered across the pilot area

• 8km of the cycle road from Zelokvet to Drazovce transformed into an urban green corridor.

• Creation of a picnic meadow, community garden and DYI Café

• 37 festivals and large scale events

• 107 creative initiatives

• 33 sport and bikesharing activities

• Empty spaces became spaces of belonging

PARTICIPATION

• +200 people participated in the bikesharing initiative

• +500 people engaged through volunteer activities

• +1100 visitors to outreach activities and events

• 12,000 attendance for all events (estimated)

IMPACT

• High agreement that the proposed VIS positively affected the 12 dimensions of Inclusive Health and Wellbeing evaluated

• Ukrainian refugees who frequented the co-created urban green corridor (in comparison with control group of Ukrainian refugees who frequented other green spaces)

- Experienced greater life satisfaction
- Spent more time in public spaces
- Interacted more with their community in these spaces
- In relation to subjective and social wellbeing, the impact was stronger in relation to the co-co-co process itself than to the VIS.

DISCOVER NITRA’S VISIONARY AND INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS

1. Participatory site-specific art residency as an engagement, co-design tool and an inclusive art and urban intervention

2. Participatory photography as an engagement, co-design tool and an inclusive art, education and therapeutic solution

3. BioBlitz Combined with Participatory Phytosociological Analysis as an Inclusive Co-Design and Environmental Education Tool

4. Community bike-sharing as a sustainable and inclusive business model

5. Slow Impact Incremental Design as a Participatory Urban Planning Methodology for Sensitive Communities

6. Adaptive Urban Furniture Add-on as a low-cost solution to increase accessibility

7. Flood-Proof Countersunk Public Grills for flood-prone public spaces

8. Modular, Multifunctional and Reversible Urban Furniture

9. Eco-Stabilising Land Art as a Nature-Based Solution