Co-Creating Sustainable Cities
Around the world, major challenges of our time such as population growth and climate change are being addressed in cities. Here, citizens play an important role amidst governments, companies, NGOs and researchers in creating social, technological and political innovations for achieving sustainability.
Citizens can be co-creators of sustainable cities when they engage in city politics or in the design of the urban environment and its technologies and infrastructure. In addition, citizens influence and are influenced by the technologies and systems that they use every day. Sustainability is thus a result of the interplay between technology, policy and people’s daily lives. Understanding this interplay is essential for creating sustainable cities. In this MOOC, we zoom in on Amsterdam, Beijing, Ho Chi Minh City, Nairobi, Kampala and Suzhou as living labs for exploring the dynamics of co-creation for sustainable cities worldwide. We will address topics such as participative democracy and legitimacy, ICTs and big data, infrastructure and technology, and SMART technologies in daily life.
This global scope will be used to illustrate why specific forms of co-creation are preferred in specific urban contexts. Moreover, we will investigate and compare these cities on three themes that have a vast effect on city life:
Water and waste
Energy, air, food and mobility
Green spaces and food
This MOOC will teach you about the dynamics of co-creation and the key principles of citizens interacting with service providing companies, technology and infrastructure developers, policy makers and researchers. You will gain an understanding of major types of co-creation and their interdependency with their socio-technical and political contexts. You will become equipped to indicate how you can use co-creation to develop innovative technologies, policy arrangements or social practices for a sustainable city in your own community. You will demonstrate this by developing an action plan, research proposal or project idea.
This course forms a part of two educational programme of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) - AMS Vital and Circular city research themes. It is developed by Wageningen UR and TU Delft, two of the founding universities of AMS Institute, and in cooperation with Tsinghua University.
For whom?
Basic knowledge of sustainability in urban settings, urban environmental technology and urban management is assumed.
What you'll learn
- Different definitions, forms and typical examples of co-creation for developing sustainable urban water, energy and green systems.
- The potential of co-creation for developing sustainable cities.
- The interdependency between co-creation and its policy and socio-technical contexts.
- Comparison of different real-life cases of co-creation.
- To understand interdependencies between the real-life cases of co-creation and their policy and socio-technical contexts.
- How to formulate the potential of co-creation in your work or daily life.
Get a Reminder
Rating | Not enough ratings |
---|---|
Length | 8 weeks |
Effort | 8 weeks, 6–8 hours per week |
Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
Cost | $139 |
From | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), DelftX, WageningenX, DelftWageningenX, Delft University of Technology, Wageningen University & Research via edX |
Instructors | Gert Spaargaren, Huub H.M. Rijnaarts, Bas van Vliet, Jan Vreeburg, Ilse Voskamp, Walter Fraanje, Ellen van Bueren, Co-creating sustainable cities – Course contributors |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English, Arabic |
Subjects | Social Sciences Science |
Tags | Engineering Social Sciences Environmental Studies Architecture WageningenX |
Get a Reminder
Similar Courses
Careers
An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile.
Forestry and Climate Change Specialist, Guatemala Sustainable Forest/Water $54k
Project Coordinator, Post-Conflict Sustainable Development $65k
Customer Solutions Engineer - IoT and Smart Cities $74k
Brand Specialist i2 & IOC Smarter Cities $84k
Assistant Project Manager for Sustainable Design $97k
Project Manager for Sustainable Design $99k
Twin Cities Area Rep - Marketing and Development Manager $99k
Architect & LEED AP, Sustainable Design $102k
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development $118k
Cities Editor $134k
Sector Leader Sustainable Development Network $140k
DuPont Sustainable Solutions CIO $257k
Write a review
Your opinion matters. Tell us what you think.
Please login to leave a review
Rating | Not enough ratings |
---|---|
Length | 8 weeks |
Effort | 8 weeks, 6–8 hours per week |
Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
Cost | $139 |
From | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), DelftX, WageningenX, DelftWageningenX, Delft University of Technology, Wageningen University & Research via edX |
Instructors | Gert Spaargaren, Huub H.M. Rijnaarts, Bas van Vliet, Jan Vreeburg, Ilse Voskamp, Walter Fraanje, Ellen van Bueren, Co-creating sustainable cities – Course contributors |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English, Arabic |
Subjects | Social Sciences Science |
Tags | Engineering Social Sciences Environmental Studies Architecture WageningenX |
Similar Courses
Sorted by relevance
Like this course?
Here's what to do next:
- Save this course for later
- Get more details from the course provider
- Enroll in this course