Unleashing future-facing urban hubs through culture and creativity-led strategies of transformative time (T-Factor)
ProjectT-Factor challenges the waiting time in urban regeneration - i.e. the time in-between the adoption of the masterplan
and its actual realization - to demonstrate how culture, creative collaboration and wide engagement can unleash
vibrant urban hubs of inclusive urban (re)generation, social innovation and enterprise. The project targets early
stage regenerations in a diversity of historic urban areas in London, Bilbao, Amsterdam, Kaunas, Milan and Lisbon,
and provides their PPPs with a unique ecosystem of capacity-building for radically new city-making approaches.
Leveraging local coalitions of actors, we will use the masterplans of the targeted regenerations as the starting
point to steer collective inquiry into their meanings and narratives, co-create visions of future spaces, and put them
on stage via meanwhile uses and experiences. Throughout the process, culture and creativity will support voice
and engagement, and help enrich and steer the masterplans towards heritage and culture-relevant innovation and
enterprise, and social and cultural integration. Via trans-disciplinary action research, we will keep track of change,
and build on the insights to add iteratively new layers of collective reflection and action. This learning by making
will continuously inform masterplans and PPPs, consolidating, adjusting and providing new directions of urban
development rooted in shared goals of sustainable city-making. T-Factor will work as an international community of
practice, delivering an innovative city-mentoring model which will create multiple collaborations between the pilot
cities, advance cultural and creative hubs, universities, enterprises and social organizations partnering the project, so
as to shape an international movement of capacity-building and knowledge co-creation for the transformative time in
urban regeneration leveraging heritage, culture and creativity.
and its actual realization - to demonstrate how culture, creative collaboration and wide engagement can unleash
vibrant urban hubs of inclusive urban (re)generation, social innovation and enterprise. The project targets early
stage regenerations in a diversity of historic urban areas in London, Bilbao, Amsterdam, Kaunas, Milan and Lisbon,
and provides their PPPs with a unique ecosystem of capacity-building for radically new city-making approaches.
Leveraging local coalitions of actors, we will use the masterplans of the targeted regenerations as the starting
point to steer collective inquiry into their meanings and narratives, co-create visions of future spaces, and put them
on stage via meanwhile uses and experiences. Throughout the process, culture and creativity will support voice
and engagement, and help enrich and steer the masterplans towards heritage and culture-relevant innovation and
enterprise, and social and cultural integration. Via trans-disciplinary action research, we will keep track of change,
and build on the insights to add iteratively new layers of collective reflection and action. This learning by making
will continuously inform masterplans and PPPs, consolidating, adjusting and providing new directions of urban
development rooted in shared goals of sustainable city-making. T-Factor will work as an international community of
practice, delivering an innovative city-mentoring model which will create multiple collaborations between the pilot
cities, advance cultural and creative hubs, universities, enterprises and social organizations partnering the project, so
as to shape an international movement of capacity-building and knowledge co-creation for the transformative time in
urban regeneration leveraging heritage, culture and creativity.