From vacancies to new open spaces. Shop vacancies are a growing phenomenon worldwide. This is accompanied by the desolation of the city. How do we want to live in urban areas in the future?
Cities are the living space of the future. By 2050, 80 per cent of the world’s population is expected to live in urban areas. However, changes in consumer behaviour, outdated retail concepts and the after-effects of the pandemic are taking their toll. Vacancies and reduced footfall characterise the status quo. City centres have clung to the monotonous shopping mall for too long. With the aim of transforming the city centre, positive future designs and visions are being generated with the help of AI in a participatory process in the form of the Vision Kiosk. The Vision Kiosk strengthens self-efficacy, increases identity through co-determination and generates new future designs and visions.
Against this backdrop, the transformation of the urban structure is also an indicator of the quality of life and quality of stay. Today, urban development can no longer be understood as a top-down process. Rather, participative and bottom-up processes enable new forms of coexistence. This can provide the basis for far-reaching changes within urban structures. New utilisation concepts, such as temporary use, intermediate and mixed use, provide new impetus. Space for social interaction, urban production and innovative utilisation scenarios. The players in a city work together to create intelligent solutions for the city of the future.
