katowice – UPSURGE Project https://www.upsurge-project.eu The European Union Regenerative Urban Lighthouse Project Mon, 17 Oct 2022 08:53:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://www.upsurge-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cropped-icoLighthouse-32x32.png katowice – UPSURGE Project https://www.upsurge-project.eu 32 32 Study trip to Katowice https://www.upsurge-project.eu/study-trip-to-katowice/ Wed, 12 Oct 2022 08:32:04 +0000 https://www.upsurge-project.eu/?p=1194

The Municipal Urban Greenery in Katowice and IETU hosted an UPSURGE project group from Queen’s University in Belfast and CENTOURIS, an institute at the University of Passau, on September 27-28. The main goal was to visit the five demo sites in Katowice and to discuss the implementation of the planned NBS there as well as the progress of the stakeholder workshops. Besides that, the visiting group had an opportunity to meet with the representatives of the nearby Ochojec Hospital and the Silesian Park administration, where green bus stops will be set up close by. The group was also welcomed by Mariusz Skiba, Deputy Mayor of the City of Katowice, for a brief chat at City Hall. During the meeting with the mayor, we presented the key concept of the UPSURGE project and how it is being implemented in the city.

NBS site walk tour in Katowice
Workshop meeting in Katowice
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The first round of workshops with city residents and other stakeholders implemented by IETU and the Municipal Urban Greenery Enterprise in Katowice took place on 2-6 September 2022. It was a one of a kind experience with great creativity,  involvement  and commitment  of working together with the residents, local community leaders, NGOs to co-create the final design of the NBS solutions of the infrastructural demos in line with community needs. Beside the co-creation workshops,  we interacted with the stakeholders directly at the five locations of planned NBS investments with short interviews. These discussions allowed us to get first hand spontaneous reactions and true contributions to our NBS planning process on what are the resident’s expectations and concerns. All the great ideas will be taken on board for the final planning process of the Katowice demos.

The NBS solutions to be implemented under the UPSURGE project are foreseen to be installed at 4 bus stops and on the market square. The places have been selected as being exemplary sites of urban heat island.

Our workshops are the first stage of the round of public meetings in UPSURGE as an important part connected with public involvement in creating solutions which would be useful for other cities as a pattern to follow on NBS developments in the future.

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