Mutual benefits - wise design for safety, inclusion and a city for all

Important results from the project

We succeeded in creating a model for place collaboration around supported housing units, which was one of the objectives of the project. However, the project did not succeed in creating a coherent model for managing conflicts of interest in urban development. Instead, the project has produced a series of pilots, proposals and solutions that together contribute in making the socially vulnerable and homeless visible in the urban development processes.

Expected long term effects

Adopted programmes such as the place collaboration model and functional program are concrete changes in how the city works and which in the long run can mean safer and better living environments for both the homeless and neighbors. Other long-term results may be that the socially vulnerable are considered as users of the developing city. Functions such as supported housing and meeting places for the target group become as natural a social value as sufficient pre-school places.

Approach and implementation

The project started with a social innovation lab about how we can achieve security around a supported housing unit whit a wide range of invited actors. This was the start of a collaboration that then became the testing ground for the project´s place collaboration model. In the part concerning the urban development processes, the project encountered difficulties in obtaining a commitment to cooperation from urban development administrations. This resulted in the project taking a more agile design

External links

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