stakeholder involvement

After the midsummer, a stakeholder meeting was organized to discuss the concept of the Mūkusalas development (public space design). The professionals discussed about the ideas and purpose of ​​the concept, providing information about project timetable and innovative student engagement methods.

For a second year in a row, the City of  Riga organized the cleaning of the project’s pilot territory – Mūkusala within the annual Latvian event “The Big Clean-Up Day” on 24 April 2017.  With participation of almost 40 volunteers,  the group managed to collect over 50 bags of various waste along the Kīleveina ditch, including wasted home appliances and dozens of car tires.

The first Baltic Urban Lab workshop was held on 2 March 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia. Over 50 participants from cities around the Central Balticregion gathered to the former industrial building Kultuurikatel to discuss and share experiences about how to design better integrated planning processes involving variety of stakeholders especially in the context of brownfield redevelopment.

Turku Future Forum gathered over 200 participants to discuss and jointly develop ideas and scenarios for the development of Kupittaa-Itäharju area - the Campus and Science park area.

Riga’s Pilot Site within Baltic Urban Lab project -  the area around the Mūkusalas iela (street) -  is situated in the Torņakalns neighbourhood on the bank of the river Daugava with a view to the city centre (Old Riga). The surrounding area of the pilot site is developing fast with the new National Library built and the University of Latvia's new campus area located next to the pilot site.

How does the area between University Hill, Kupittaa and Itäharju brownfield triangle look like in 2030s? What kind of businesses and services are located in the area? How is the future mobility system in the area and how do the buildings look like? 

Turku invites everybody to join the Turku Future week to jointly develop ideas and vision for the future development of world class Turku campus and science park area. The future week takes place between 28.11-1.12.2016.