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Questioning the scale and the co-creation of the city, Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale is a large-scale European cooperation project between 12 partners from 11 cities. This platform of interdisciplinary exchanges explores how the inhabitants reclaim the constantly evolving contemporary city. It uses experiments in the urban space as ways of (re)inventing city life, a step to improve well-being and quality of life. Human Cities’ network highlights 13 strong and shared values: Empathy – Well-being – Sustainability – Intimacy – Conviviality -Mobility – Accessibility- Imagination – Leisure – Aesthetics – Sensoriality – Solidarity -Respect. Human Cities is shaped as a multidisciplinary European network composed of various profiles: universities, design centers and design weeks, ICT platforms, service design and creative design consultancies. An exemples of a project activity related to well-being: urban planning students at Ljubljana’s Faculty of Architecture even designed and constructed a wooden pavilion – called a “station of well-being” –which now serves as a meeting place in Bratovševa ploščad.
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According to the project team in the ”Human Cities 2014-2018 Final Book : Challenging the City Scale” publication, ”Since 2014, the Human Cities network has been working on Challenging the City Scale to question the urban scale and investigate cocreation in cities. The Human Cities partners have carried out urban experimentations in 11 European cities empowering citizens to rethink the spaces in which they live, work and spend their leisure time. Through conversations with people involved, the book examines how bottom-up processes and their design, tools and instruments generate new ideas to reinvent the city. It offers inspiration and insights to everyone, from practitioners and politicians to designers and active citizens, eager to try out new ways to produce more human cities together. Our project can be seeen as a journey in people-centred design.”