Notes from our brainstorm session on the main goals of the workshop:
Inclusive
Inclusive projects · Public access and spaces along the riverfront – reclaiming the quays
· Local gardens and neighbourhood.
· Programmed meeting places across generations and cultures –
· Common cultural meeting places.
Inclusive physical planning
· Connections for bikes and pedestrians across the river - Establishing physical connections
· Enable family dwellings in the city - Developing a mixed city with mixed dwellings
Inclusive activities and processes
· Enhanced local ownership – by connecting schools, companies etc.
· Sustaiunability projects as including activities
· Engaging citizens in the city and the river
What caracterises the inclusive project
· Temporary design
· Multifunctional areas with different purposes and uses - New projects should include mixed users, inhabitants, owners etc.
· Space for children
· No tabula rasa – respect history and existing qualities
Green
Multifunctional green urban spaces · Local green microclimate
· Green urban spaces with recreational qualities
· Green infrastructure for pedestrians and bicycles and biodiversity
· Let the nature take over where we do not use the city
· Local farming
· Green is blue in Gothenburg - Using the river as recreational quality
Green transportation
· Public transport and bikes – super-tramps, metro under the river
· Easier, safer and healthier to bike
Climate city
· Climate adaption partly by natural coastal dynamic
· CO2-neutral city
· Renovating and developing the CO2-neutral city
· Liquid city – water and ethanol
· Analyzing stakeholders in sustainable development
· Exporting clean-tech with green tankers
Dynamic
Dynamic process and planning
· Triple Helix development
· Flexibility in local planning
· Multilevel planning – different functions and timescale in planning – always space for small businesses
· Start small and learn while you do it
· Balance between the fixed and the flexible
· Enhanced local ownership
· Enable family dwellings in the city
Dynamic timescale
· Starting tomorrow
· Temporary design
Dynamic projects
· Multifunctional areas with different purposes and uses
· Kick starting the city economy by renovating and developing the CO2-neutral city – low energy, sustainable transportation, clean tech – financing by ESCO
· Foster the embryons – cheep locations, young entrepreneurs – fab-lab, business incubators – triple helix
· diversity as business strategy
· Daring to think small
· New ownerships for new entrepreneurs
· Enhanced local ownership