Project: Incubators of public spaces

Acronym	Incubators (Reference Number: 4148963)
Duration	05/05/2014 - 04/05/2017
Project Topic	Across Europe, urban areas are growing and regenerating themselves according to a combination of individual self-interest and strategic planning. These are well-intentioned but the results are unpredictable. The multiplication of individually satisfactory developments and interventions may still be collectively sub-optimal, as seen in the case of urban sprawl, which is a potent spatial expression of modern society. In this age of complexity, participatory planning has been discussed in theory but only partly realised in practice, as it can lack the practical tools to harness the full potential of distributed decision-making. People are seen as being actively engaged in systems as participants, and as a consequence can contribute their considerable knowledge and expertise to systems. Incubators address ways to harness the new technological possibilities and integrate them within multi-level planning systems to assist distributed decision-making in the self-organisation of places. The Project advances these challenges by linking a unique urban co-creative software, to e-participatory engagement applications and crowdfunding tools, involving co-creation in the making of public places by and for people. In this way, public spaces are transformed from empty spaces into a real context for social interaction, and would then become defined not only by the architecture that contains them, but also by the actions of the people that inhabit them.
Network	JPI Urban Europe
Call	JPI Urban Europe 2nd Call

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
4148963	Politecnico di Torino - Department of Architecture and Design	Coordinator	Italy
4206869	isn - innovation service network GmbH	Partner	Austria
4207079	Neurovation GmbH	Partner	Austria
4212219	KU Leuven - Faculty of Architecture	Partner	Belgium
4217822	University College London - Bartlett School of Planning	Partner	United Kingdom
4495366	COMUNE DI TORINO	Partner	Italy