The Bergamo 2.(035) – “A new urban concept for a new world” – research program is motivated by the need to conceive an articulated, long-term and comparative vision of the most relevant future developments of an urban environment and its territory. This vision would trigger the discussion and the definition of the strategic lines for mastering their trajectories and identifying the decision-making leverages to tackle the most prominent critical issues.
Bergamo 2.(035) is a research program providing the foundation and common ground of a number of projects which, though oriented on a specific application area or issue, would benefit from the sharing of a common vision.
The research has identified four main relevant trends in the development of cities in the long term:
• The Knowledge Intensive Community. An idea of city where a new society learns how to better use the available resources to satisfy its needs and solve its problems.
• The Collaborative Prosumption Community. Two phenomena took place in the last years and might become a leading trend in the future. On one hand, people are becoming aware that their role is not simply to act as consumers, but also to be active producers, generating not only what they need for themselves, but also distributing and selling to the community. On the other, companies are not simply producers but they also use and purchase goods for managing their activities through both vertical and horizontal collaborations: these activities are more and more developing towards a sustainable perspective.
• The Multiscale Mobile Community. Multiscale sustainable mobility refers to the widespread and growing behavioral tendency of individuals / information / goods / ideas to move in geographic areas at different levels (local, regional, international, …) and in connected spaces, with a low environmental impact, and focusing on a social point of view.
• The Social role of Enterprises. We fancy of a city where companies operate with regard to broad and complex societal issues, such as community welfare, social justice, poverty and human rights.
To design our specific roadmap, we will try contextualize these trends in the future of the city and specifically in the future of Bergamo.
The approach we seek is based on the establishment of thematic “living labs” where target groups of stakeholders will be stimulated to deploy the Bergamo 2.(035) vision into the real urban context, involved in a structured and systematic creation process.
Two main results are expected:
1. the creation of the discussion groups is going to be a result in itself, since we expect these groups to become the initiating seeds of change and growing awareness of key topics for the city of tomorrow.
2. these groups will establish new ideas and concepts to be considered the initial steps of the roadmap.