WeGenerate – Co-creating People-Centric Sustainable Neighbourhoods through Urban Regeneration

Project summary

The project seeks to infuse the elements of people and co-creation in the urban regeneration processes. It fully embraces the paradigm shift from building for the people to building with the people. We – cities, citizens, communities, businesses, researchers, and practitioners – take ownership of the urban regeneration processes and co-create together sustainable, resilient, people-centric, inclusive, accessible, and beautiful neighbourhoods.

The project is about the stories of four neighbourhoods and their communities located in different parts of Europe. Although they are at different stages of development and are facing different challenges but they share the same vision of positive change. WeGenerate will help them to reinvent themselves and in the process find new values and opportunities.

The project has several objectives: 

Catalyse systemic change by scaling up innovations and stimulating structural reform.

Create an “Urban WeGenerate Model” setting out a common methodological approach to guide sustainable and inclusive urban regeneration processes

Bolster the implementation of integrated climate-neutral transformation within the urban regeneration process

Mainstream participatory planning practice in the urban regneration process by engaging all relevant stakeholders.

The Baltic Institute of Finland coordinates project management in this initiative together with the project partner, The City of Tampere.