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Ideathon The Return to Public Life Innovative solutions for the new normal: sustainable, resilient and inclusive with physical distancing

Innovative solutions for the new normal – sustainable, resilient and inclusive while physical distancing

July 1, 2020 por Tamara Egger - Hallel Elnir - Carolina Huffmann Leave a Comment

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In the midst of the public health emergency and physical distancing due to COVID-19, we invite civil society from Latin America and the Caribbean to collaborate creatively to develop solutions for the new normal and the reactivation  of our  public spaces, while still following physical distancing measures to avoid further contagion of the virus. Together with the IDB’s Cities LAB, we want to find innovative solutions for (1) how to reactivate public spaces with physical distancing and (2) how to recuperate and restore lost confidence in urban life.

It is urgent that we take action to rebuild existing community ties, restore the cultural values of our urban lives, and facilitate new forms of social relations that strengthen local communities. In the history of our cities, we can see that great changes to our urban fabric resulted from pandemics. In our role of Cities LAB, we desire for these innovations to be made collaboratively between multiple urban actors.

How can we generate proposals that allow us to create community and vitality in the streets with physical distancing?

We have seen how long periods of physical isolation can affect citizens’ behavior and create uncertainty when they return to the streets. Public space becomes that space that exposes us to a potential contagion and we are faced with the challenging task of daily activities having careful protocols.

In order to build more humane, resilient and sustainable communities, it is important to think about how cities in the region must face these moments of transition and seek solutions to return to a new public life in gradual stages, which contemplate current care, challenges, problems and opportunities.

Governments, organizations, professionals, institutions and activists from different cities around the world are promoting a process that, as opposed to a natural process of ‘reaction and return’ to the previous situation, recognizes the need to promote a ‘transformation and adaptation’ that recognizes and takes advantage of the changes resulting from the new way of occupying space.

In this context, the greatest skills and creative strengths are desired so that proposals for public spaces interventions have the capacity to foster connection and trust between people by generating opportunities in the face of new situations, problems or conflicts.

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Rojo, amarillo, verde: ¿en qué fase y estado se encuentran los espacios públicos de tu ciudad en la vida urbana (pos)pandemia? La crisis sanitaria y socioeconómica del coronavirus expuso al espacio público como un potencial agente de contagio, pero todos sabemos que es una parte esencial de la solución. Para volver a la calle es necesario orientarnos hacia un nuevo común urbano y eso requiere de tu participación como ciudadano. En el Ideatón Volver a la Calle estamos buscando ideas para reactivar los espacios públicos con distanciamiento físico y recuperar la confianza perdida en la vida urbana a partir de un nuevo contrato social urbano más inclusivo, sostenible y resiliente. Postula hasta el 31 de julio tu solución replicable, de bajo costo, rápida ejecución y alto impacto. ¿El premio? Lo más importante es que serás parte de un proceso colaborativo de incubación junto a expertos del BID y una extensa red de placemakers para transformar la idea a un prototipo urbano. . Ideatón VOLVER a la CALLE 💡 iadb.org/ideatonvolveralacalle . 🙌 Laboratorio de Ciudades de @el_bid + @ciudades.comunes + @placemakinglatinoamerica . #pospandemia #postcovid19 #postcovid #pandemia #postcuarentena #postcorona #coronavirus #coronavírus #coronacrisis #covid_19 #covid19 #espaciopublico #espaciopúblico #diseñourbano #placemaking #urbanismo #innovacionsocial #innovaciónsocial #distanciamientosocial #cuarentena #participacionciudadana #participaciónciudadana #americalatina #confianza #comunidad #creandocomunidad #culturaciudadana #culturaurbana #placemakinglatinoamerica #vidaurbana

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The Inter-American Development Bank’s Cities LAB, within the framework of the Common Cities Conference, host of Placemaking Latin America 2020, announces an “Ideathon” to activate creativity and collective intelligence with the aim of provoking innovative proposals focused on the reactivation of public, social and community life in the public spaces of LAC cities.

The Ideathon seeks small-scale solutions that help improve inclusive and human-scale public spaces, complying with the necessary physical distancing measures due to the COVID-19 health crisis. These solutions should promote inclusive public life and strengthen both urban development and local economic development programs and meeting and community spaces, with special attention to the most vulnerable populations.

We want to invite civil society in the region to draw on their creativity and innovate the public spaces of tomorrow, with solutions that embrace the concept ‘build-back-better’ and support the region’s cities in achieving Goal 11 of the Sustainable Development Goals, that of achieving cities for all.

Proposals are sought to help activate urban life in the transition phases, taking into account physical distancing measures, and promote more inclusive and sustainable public spaces.

The solutions we are looking for:

1. Are replicable and scalable in nature, with the potential to be adapted to specific local contexts, high impact, low cost and have the potential for rapid execution.

2. Provide potential physical distancing scenarios in public space during transition phases.

3. Promote the recovery of citizens’ trust in urban life, using clear communication on the rules of physical distancing.

4. Propose alternatives that contribute to making public spaces and urban life more sustainable, resilient and inclusive (build-back-better).

5. Respond to the challenge of strengthening the link between public space and daily community life in Latin American cities.

6. Are inclusive and consider vulnerable groups, energize social life, strengthen the local economy and promote transport on a human scale. They also promote gender equity and the reduction of spatial and social inequalities.

7. Are on a human scale, that is, they consider people as the cornerstone.

The best proposals received will be published in IDB media channels and disseminated publicly in the region. A multidisciplinary jury will select 3 winning proposals.

The 3 selected projects will work together with IDB Cities LAB, Common Cities and various urban stakeholders to adapt the idea to a prototype to be implemented in cities in the region. Each winning project will receive a prize and the costs for materials necessary to develop the prototype.

The incubation process will be structured on a work scheme that lasts no more than 2 months: two online sessions per week, one of which will be a theoretical session with the participation of multidisciplinary experts, and the other will be an internal session.

This process seeks to create synergies between researchers, professionals, interested citizens, activists and civil servants. Spaces for collective creation and exchange between the winning projects will be generated, where knowledge is shared openly and horizontally.

We invite you to think about these solutions and contribute your creative ideas! https://www.iadb.org/ideatonvolveralacalle

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Ciudad pospandemia, ¿nuevo punto de partida? La actual crisis es una oportunidad para replantear los espacios públicos que queremos: inclusivos, sostenibles, resilientes. Pero, primero, hay que recuperar la confianza en la vida urbana. Tú puedes ser parte del camino hacia ese nueva normalidad urbana. Por eso, desde el Laboratorio de Ciudades de @el_bid junto a @ciudades.comunes y @placemakinglatinoamerica creamos un espacio para ti: un ideatón en búsqueda de soluciones replicables, de bajo costo, rápida ejecución y alto impacto para reactivar los espacios públicos con distanciamiento físico y recuperar la confianza perdida en la vida urbana. Presenta tu propuesta en esta convocatoria de ideas hasta el 31 de julio. . Ideatón VOLVER a la CALLE 💡 iadb.org/ideatonvolveralacalle . #pospandemia #postcovid19 #postcovid #pandemia #postcuarentena #postcorona #coronavirus #coronavírus #coronacrisis #covid_19 #covid19 #espaciopublico #espaciopúblico #diseñourbano #placemaking #urbanismo #innovacionsocial #innovaciónsocial #distanciamientosocial #cuarentena #participacionciudadana #participaciónciudadana #americalatina #confianza #comunidad #creandocomunidad #culturaciudadana #culturaurbana #placemakinglatinoamerica #vidaurbana

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Tamara Egger

Tamara Egger estudou Arquitetura e Urbanismo em Viena, Berlim e Pequim. Concentrou seus estudos no planejamento urbano em escala humana, design de espaço público inclusivo e participação do cidadão. Tem três anos de experiência em processos participativos de co-design com o Urban Design Lab, trabalhando em diferentes cidades da América Latina (República Dominicana, Chile, Equador e Panamá). Atualmente, trabalha na Divisão de Habitação e Desenvolvimento Urbano do Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento.

Hallel Elnir

Hallel Elnir es urbanista, especializado en desarrollo internacional. Mientras trabajaba como consultor de Smart City en la División de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), aprovechó las tecnologías innovadoras para abordar los desafíos urbanos, desarrollar y compartir conocimientos y crear asociaciones público-privadas en la región de ALC. Anteriormente, Hallel trabajó en el sector privado en Israel, brindando asesoramiento sobre planificación estratégica, ejecución e implementación de proyectos urbanos, así como apoyando los planes maestros de las ciudades. Hallel posee una maestría en Desarrollo Internacional y Planificación Urbana de la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén, Israel, y una licenciatura en Ciencias Políticas y Geografía de la Universidad de Tel Aviv, Israel.

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