Methodology and process tools for municipal cliamte and energy transitions

Purpose and goal

The project develops a methodology and a prototype for a practical design tool that should be easily cutomisable to different cities and situations. The purpose is to give greater stability to strategic design processes that include diverse groups of strategic decision makers who aiming to create ambitions mission based transition strategies. A central ambition is to capture a dynamic perspective on urban development, where this includes physical and institutional infrastrucutre.

Expected effects and result

The immediate result of the project is a precisely described work process and a number of pedagogical and visually powerful ”dialogue guides”. These should (i) enable the more rapid establishment of a shared language in workproceses involving strategic decision makerss form diverse spheres, and (ii) put focus on factors and relationships that may be crucial for the success of a certain ambition but which may not receive adequate focus as they tend to be inadequately named or described.

Planned approach and implementation

The project is built around a design methodology where the focus is on designing a more adequate language for ambitious urban development or transition efforts. The project builds on a number of well informed hypotheses about what key concept such a language must be built around; these concepts are subsequently applied to historical and current cases through a inter-disciplinary analysis; thereafter the resulting descriptions are evaluated in terms of their capacity to empower decision makers.