CoCoNet

Co-creative Cohabitation Network (CoCoNet) proposes a novel approach to inner-city development fostering multi-functionality mindsets to achieve less car-dependency towards a spatially just, resilient and livable city. 

The unique approach of CoCoNet is to merge two integrated co-creative processes of (1) modeling and (2) planning and design with the aim to provide a methodology that allows to highlight spatial potentials revealing synergies between sustainable mobility, climate adaptation and biodiversity. Although digital models of the individual aspects are available, such an integrating, model-supported planning approach is currently missing in practice, but urgently needed for the development of future smart and sustainable urban neighborhoods.

CoCoNet focuses on restructuring and redistributing urban streetscape at the district level and concentrates on combining mobility measures with NBS. The integrated co-creative processes will involve the city administration, local initiatives and urban design students.

CoCoNet will go beyond current urban sustainability approaches by providing a planning methodology that can be directly applied in the creation of vibrant, sustainable urban neighborhoods giving valuable support to policy and decision makers. The project will also go beyond existing urban biodiversity studies by making socio-ecological aspects and the cohabitation between humans and other organisms a central point in the urban planning process.