CityZen
The CityZEN Project is a European Union Smart Cities Programme that aims to kick-start carbon descent in cities through direct design action. The project consists of a series of week-long participatory ‘Roadshow’ events in 10 cities around Europe that develop a carbon descent roadmap for the city on a neighbourhood scale.
Read more Read lessThe project has generated a series of carbon descent strategies that are realistic in terms of technology, but challenging in terms of timescale and community engagement. The project has received a range of awards from both the cities that we have engaged with and the EU itself. Impact is continuing beyond the project, as there is on-going engagement with the cities visited, and new engagements with other cities, such as Nieuw-West Amsterdam where the strategy plan has been consolidated into policy.
CityZEN has been chosen as a Queens Social Charter Project under the theme Sustainability.
https://www.qub.ac.uk/public-engagement/civic/social-charter/
This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 608702.
EU FP7 Smart Cities CityZEN. €20m 2014-2020.
http://www.cityzen-smartcity.eu/home/about-city-zen/objectives/
Recent papers published by the Research group:
From Problems to Potentials - The Urban Energy Transition of Gruž, Dubrovnik
van den Dobblesteen, A., Martin, C. L., Keeffe, G., Pulselli, R. & Vandevyvere, H., 13 Apr 2018, In: Energies. 11, 4, 18 p., 922.
The Societal Impact Methodology - Connecting Citizens, Sustainability, Awareness, Technological Innovations & Co-creative City Visions.
Keeffe, G., Martin, C. L. & van den Dobblesteen, A., 08 Aug 2017, PLEA Proceedings - Design to Thrive. Brotas, L. & Roaf, S. (eds.). Edinburgh: NCEUB, Vol. 2. p. 2791-2798.
Future city visions. The energy transition towards carbon-neutrality: lessons learned from the case of Roeselare, Belgium.
Pulselli, R. M., Broersma, S., Martin, C. L., Keeffe, G., Bastianoni, S., & van den Dobbelsteen, A. (2021). Future city visions. The energy transition towards carbon-neutrality: lessons learned from the case of Roeselare, Belgium. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 137, [110612]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.110612
The project is a multidisciplinary project that works with academics from the Climate Design Team at TU Delft, the ECO-dynamics Group at the University of Siena, along with practitioners from Think-E and VITO in Belgium, as well as a range of manufacturers of sustainable energy technology.
Goal 7: Affordable and clearn energy
Goal 9: Industry innovation and infrastructure
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Goal 13: Climate action
Goal 17: Partnership for the goals
- Professor Greg Keeffe
School of Natural and Built Environment
Queen's University Belfast
g.keeffe@qub.ac.uk - https://www.qub.ac.uk/public-engagement/civic/social-charter/