Very often projects are ineffective in delivering adequate solutions. They lack specificity and they are not grounded in real problems and needs. metaCCAZE has designed a specific and innovative approach to tailor the project’s final output to each participant city’s needs. While adopting this format, expert project managers are responsible for coordinating the wider guidelines to implement this solution.
This approach is referred to as metadesign because each innovative solution is designed during the project, constantly monitored and adapted according to what is included in each city’s Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) and what each city demands.
In the initial stage of the project, each city is assigned some innovative solutions (Use cases) selected by the outcomes of each city’s SUMP and defined by the project’s partners. During the project, the use cases are finetuned where the project’s partners and city managers collaborate to shape and design specific activities to gather citizens’ input to define better and shape these use cases.
This phase was centred on constant follow-ups between the project’s partners and cities’ managers to include their inputs in the shaping of their city’s needs and the prototypes for the use cases. This is done by predefining governance and business models on the side of operational and functional ones based on citizens’ and city’s necessities.
The goal is to create a model of constant adaptability and follow-up done by the project’s partners. To achieve this, the third part of the metadesign focused on organising in-person events between the cities’ managers and their citizens and stakeholders to finally redefine these innovative solutions. This phase is grounded in creating adaptive guidelines, offered by experts in project management and planning but not in a top-down approach. Each city can shape its format and customise the activity according to its needs and the type of event it wants to create.
Impressions from a metaCCAZE event organised in Munich on 27 June 2024 to gather feedback about future mobility solutions
To be sure that this is achieved constant collaboration and conversation among project partners was the core of this phase to ensure that everyone’s feedback was included. At the end of this phase, each city was equipped with organisational and communication materials that helped the design of their unique event with their community.
This ensured that not only every future Use Case will deliver a tailored solution, based on each city’s need, but that the process is grounded in what citizens and stakeholders need, desire and aspire to, ultimately creating more resilient and sustainable mobility futures.
Author: Chiara Galioto. Project Manager at BABLE Smart Cities
Learn more about metaCCAZE cities here.
