Projects
Discover the various transdisciplinary research projects of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ on transforming cities. Here you can also find the projects that have received seed funding from the Transforming Cities hub.
Transforming infrastructures projects
Cross-domain coordination
Examining cross-domain infrastructure governance in Los Angeles and Maputo.
Inclusiveness via co-design processes
Investigating the inclusiveness of urban co-design as an approach for digital urban development (in particular applied to 5G infrastructure and imaginaries).
New methods of 'assessment'
Using the urban transformative technique of ‘a²õ²õ±ð²õ²õ³¾±ð²Ô³Ù²õ’ to explore how urban transformations through infrastructures can be evaluated and monitored.
Mapping & characterising urban governance capacity
Exploring zero-carbon heating and cooling transformations in European cities within the European 'Decarb City Pipes 2050' project.
Modes of adaptiveness via experimentation
Urban, policy and societal experimentation applied to sustainability transitions.
Seed funded projects
ReNew: Transforming sustainable urban futures in polluted industrial cities in the Netherlands
We are building an interdisciplinary platform which will facilitate collaboration between the researchers and the societal actors who live in polluted industrial cities in the IJmond region in the North-West coastal area of the Netherlands.
Postcapitalist mapping for sustainable futures in the Utrecht Region
Building a network of community-based initiatives and grassroots organisations that offer an alternative to sustain communities and transform society towards sustainability.
The governance of urban heating and cooling decarbonization
To meet the EU’s goal of becoming climate neutral by 2050, the urban heating and cooling (HC) sector needs to dramatically reduce its energy consumption and cut use of fossil fuels
Co-creating alternative `zero-waste' urban imaginaries
Developing future visions on ‘zero-waste cities’ that embrace waste as an inherently cultural aspect of human and more than-human coexistence.
Using Multi-Agent Systems for Simulating Online Social Network Influence on Urban Planning
This project aims to develop a multi-agent model to simulate online social network influence on participatory planning in the context of sustainable urban transition.
Urban experimentation for climate proof infrastructure
Assessing how different societal contexts affect the playing field in Utrecht, Shenzhen, and Cleveland.
Creative Urban Methods
A transdisciplinary toolkit for mapping and analysing urgent issues around infrastructures in public spaces.
Sustainable corridors?
Exploring the interface between infrastructure planning and social transformation at the metropolitan scale in São Paulo, Brazil.
Building sustainable and inclusive urban futures: incremental housing and city-making flows in the global South
Exploring incremental building practices as a key vantage point to understand solutions for persistent housing shortages in the global South.
Other projects
Algorithmic Studio
Safeguarding public values on mobility platforms for the Merwede area in Utrecht.
Nexusing water, energy and food to increase resilience in the Cape Town metropolitan region
How can water, energy and food governance systems be better coordinated to increase urban sustainability?