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Useful tools to make your city a better place

This section contains some practical tools for you to try and work with. They have been used in 70 cities throughout Europe and brought important and innovative results. Have a look at:
  • Future City Game - a team-based process designed to create new thinking and action to improve quality of life in cities
  • Urban Ideas Bakery – builds skills and shares experience on how cities ‘bake ideas’ – that is turn them into practical solutions,
  • Exploratory events - a series of events to provide a forum for sharing of knowledge and ideas about creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation in urban development.
Why use these tools?
Using the methodology of the Future City Game or Urban Ideas Bakery provides an opportunity for cities to establish a competitive advantage and to attract creative talent, which further contributes to their future economic growth. Why not try it in your city or area?

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Future City game is a team-based process designed to create new thinking and actions to improve quality of life in cities.
The Urban Ideas Bakery engages innovative local community members and international experts to ‘bake urban ideas’ – turn them into practical, deliverable solutions to improve the quality of...
Creative Cities networking events provide a forum for ongoing debates for a role creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation play in urban development.
Latest FCGs
Future City Game in Oppegård at The University of Life Sciences
The University of Life Sciences (UMB) at Ås, just outside of Oslo, hosted the Future City Game on 1-3 November 2011. The participants were 55 students of landscape architecture and planning...
2 days
Future City Game Narvik
The city of Narvik hosted a Future City Game on 25 November 2011, when hosting the annual Byromsseminaret Nordland 2011 (a conference on urban space). The two day event consisted of one day of...
4 days
Oppegård Future City Game at the University of Life Sciences
From 1 to 3 November, the University of Life Sciences (UMB) at Ås, just outside Oslo, is hosting a Future City Game. The participants are fifty-five students of landscape architecture and...
1 month
The future city game in Częstochowa
The game was played on October 28 & 29, 2009. The participants (residents, municipality representatives, experts, architects, urbanists, artists, designers and students) debated the future of the...
4 months
Events
January 2012
Jan
17
Tue
Galerija Jakopič, Ljubljana
17.01.2012 - 18.03.2012
Neue Slowenische Kunst, Exhibition
February 2012
Feb
27
Mon
Barcelona, Spain
27.02.2012 - 01.03.2012
Mobile World Congress
April 2012
August 2012
Aug
22
Wed
Berlin, Germany
22.08.2012 - 24.08.2012
Sociolinguistics Symposium 19
September 2012
Sep
9
Sun
Ljubljana
09.09.2012 - 15.09.2012
International Computer Music Conference 2012