Disruptive innovation has become a hype in some industries, discourses and applied research fields and often has a positive connotation. This normative conception of disruptive innovation often arises from the context of sustainable development: outside existing systems and structures, new solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change are to be sought. Ethical reflection is […]
Digitalised work processes, fast information flows and flexible project structures also have an impact on the design of working environments and work organisation. Hybrid work and multi-structure offices are concepts that are often implemented in the private sector but rarely in the public sector. Due to the pandemic conditions of the last two years, however, […]
This paper discusses the co-creation process that led to Dresden city’s smart city strategy, channelling the contributions from various stakeholder groups – politics, administration, science, civil society, and industries – into one vision for integrated and sustainable digitalisation-based urban development. This co-creative strategy process aims to overcome technology-centred smart city approaches that often fall short […]
More and more innovative technologies and business plans are formed at interfaces of highly divergent disciplines as a result of an increasing demand for specialized solutions combining different sectors and competence fields. This market driven evolution requires new cross-connections between regional industry clusters that had no, or only a few connections before. But especially in […]
Due to accelerated structural changes in the city administration of Dresden, a new administrative center is planned for several thousands of employees. In the framework of a scientific collaboration, inter alia we researched and evaluated demands of future city administrations by way of a participative workshop-series in order to inquire the employee´s and organisation´s implicit […]
The paper aims at providing a procedural and instrumental framework for enabling massive citizen participation in urban planning projects via digital collaboration and communication tools. Derived from a structured analysis of existing formal and informal participation processes in urban development we developed a comprehensive process supported by specific digital tools for massive participation. This so-called […]
Rapid urbanisation requires cities to develop adaptive strategies, new programmes, and long-term visions. Concepts for urban futures need to outline operations that are sustainable in economic, social, environmental terms. The paper therefore presents a systematic description of cities by way of ‘Urban Business Models’ (UBM). As a method for the systematic creation of innovative city […]
The German Future City competition seeks new procedures to enable engagement of the broader citizenship within urban vision-making processes. To support Dresden´s ‘Open City’ project within the competition, we have created a visual tool and method set that supports the collection of ideas from the citizenship, and their qualification into visionary concepts. For all stages […]
The paper reports on an ongoing research project of TU Dresden Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture aiming the investigations of the traceability and visualization of upcoming ideas and topics within discussions. To explore knowledge processes communication and interaction analyses emerged as a central scientific approach. Hereby knowledge creation and Knowledge Transfer are understood as collective and […]
Challenge Whereas many tools for e-participation have been developed to involve citizens and large stakeholder groups, there are no digital instruments which enable the creative participation of the citizenship on a massive scale. The paper presents the blueprint for a new co-design environment to enable communication and collaboration between large numbers of citizen and professional […]