IN-HABIT TOOLKITS
On this page you will find toolkits that will help you to assess the applicability of our Visionary and Integrated Solutions to your own cities and contexts, and to embark on similar processes of design and implementation. We hope that these toolkits will lead to new replications of such innovations all over Europe and the world.
We hope that these toolkits will lead to new replications of such innovations all over Europe and the world, such as those we have already sparked in various cities (see below).
Numerous upscaling and replication activities have taken place during the IN-HABIT project, in order to promote the diffusion of the methods and solutions adopted during these five years, with initial replications already underway in Europe and South America, including:
Cordoba
Initial replications
• Medellín, Colombia: Co-co-co-co approach used in several areas of Comune 9 to implement projects such as the protection and reforestation of an urban forest (Asomadera neighbourhood), dedicated work with transgender people (Cristo de Miraflores), and the activation of a public soccer field as a social meeting point (Miraflores).
• Puente Genil: Co-co-co-co approach used with ERACIS workers, educators, NGOs, and municipal staff, leading to the initial steps of a local version of an IN-HUB, providing an inclusive governance space for coordination and collaboration.
• Seville: Contacts with and field visits to Torreblanca, la Oliva and Tres Mil Viviendas neighbourhoods. Training sessions of Design for Change’s “I Can” methodology with Social Work and Social Education students at Pablo de Olavide University.
Replication initiatives
• Huelva: Contacts with Distrito 5, an initiative that brings together the five most vulnerable neighbourhoods in Huelva.
• Lucena: Agreement with this town in Southern Córdoba to test the IN-HABIT methodology as well as two specific VIS: “Citizen science initiatives to monitor urban wellbeing” and “Immersive Training Experience for Adults with Down Syndrome.”
• NGOs: Contacts with several organizations such as Fundación EMET, which is interested in replicating the VIS “Greening and renaturalisation in a shelter for homeless individuals”.
• Nitra: There has been interest from this IN-HABIT partner to replicate the creation of a citizen science-based acoustic map in the city.
*Deliverable pending final European Commission approval
Lucca
Initial replications
• All city schools in the Pisa area: Hum-animal educational activities
• 5 nursing homes in the Pisa area: Animal-Assisted Interventions
• Pisa penitentiary: Animal-Assisted Interventions
Replication initiatives
• Municipalities: contacts with Pisa, Pesaro, Massa Carrara, Rome, small municipalities in the Marche Region.
• Associations of municipalities: contacts with ANCI (Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani) in Tuscany and Italy.
• NGOs/Foundations: contacts with Legambiente Lombardia, Legambiente Italy, Fondazione Capellino (Almo Nature).
• Private enterprises: contacts with Polo Tecnologico di Navacchio.
• Local areas and pilot initiatives: contacts with LAG Montagnappennino, urban farm initiatives in Naples.
*Deliverable pending final European Commission approval
Nitra
Initial replications
• 9 secondary schools in the Nitra region: Co-co-co approach and specific VIS.
• City of Sala: Participatory co-creation of a strategic cultural development plan.
• Bánov Municipality: Co-design methods for inclusive development planning.
• Psychiatric Hospital Velké Záluzie: Co-design of therapeutic green spaces.
Replication initiatives
• Bratislava: High-level discussion on the challenges and opportunities in reforming the Slovak education system, with the presence of former prime minister of Slovakia Ludovit Odor and the Deputy Mayor of Nitra Miloslav Spoták.
• Regional Teacher Support Center: Training of employees within this center which serves 95 cities and municipalities across the Nitra and Zlaté
Moravce districts in Design for Change’s “I Can” Methodology.
• Slovak University of Agriculture: Integration of “co-co-co-co” approach within the Local Development Management study programme at the Faculty of European Studies and Regional Development.
• KO-SPACES Project: This project (full title “Community Observatory and Co-design Atelier for Inclusive Spaces”) is a follow up to IN-HABIT which extends the application of its data platform to a broader spectrum of community, public, peri-urban, and rural green spaces.
• Citizens Nitra: informal initiative inspired by the participatory principles tested in the INHUB, which has since evolved into a coordinated civil society platform.
*Deliverable pending final European Commission approval
Riga
Replication initiatives
• Agenskalns market, Riga: “Market culture in the Riga Region: The example of the Agenskalns market”
• Riga City Council: “Energy efficiency of market buildings in the Riga region”
• Sigulda Market, Sigulda: “Market culture and cooperation in the Riga region”
• Online: “IN-HABIT Riga breakfast with policymakers”
*Deliverable pending final European Commission approval
Would you like to replicate our Visionary and Integrated Solutions in your city, or develop your own?