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Current projects
Here, everything revolves around specific urban processes of the present, as can be found at regional European seaports and airports: for example at Graz Airport and Logistics Center (Austria), at the port of Koper with visionary ideas for a networked passenger airport system (Slovenia) and in the port city of Trieste (Italy) with its regional airport. These locations influence each other and their effects on the city and landscape are clearly visible. Selected HubCity regions will serve as a testing ground to discover their strengths and weaknesses through citizen science.
Graz
Airport & Surroundings
These regional airports and seaports are well and efficiently connected in terms of infrastructure by rail and freeway, but with their passenger arrivals, freight numbers, and current challenges such as ecology and health, the circular economy and waste avoidance, energy efficiency and CO2 emissions, they do not guarantee continued resilience.
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Trieste
HubCities have the important task of using citizen science for the first time to transform condensed and controversial demands (e.g. constantly growing structures that are oriented toward function and economy and take up a lot of space and resources) into a balanced and sustainable spatial organization. The project aims to strengthen the focus on end users and their tasks, goals, and motivation. The needs of the end user become more explicit and can thereby direct decision-making within design teams more toward those needs.
Seaport & Surroundings
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Koper
Seaport & Surroundings
An ongoing dialogue with citizens is crucial for the development of HubCities. It is often necessary to design site-specific tools to inform and facilitate the management of community champions (the most engaged citizens) as well as to maintain and sustain the community over time. The relevance of selected examples refers to the previous complementary expertise between researcher and supervisor.
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