Co-Creation Workshops in Poland and France

Co-Creation workshop in Dźwiżyno, Poland

On 14 September, the Municipality of Kotobrzeg and the Institute for Urban and Regional Development (IRMiR) organised a co-creation workshop at the Blue Marina Tourism and Water Recreation Centre in Dźwirzyno to address the challenges of drought and flooding phenomena.

During the workshop, the results of the CREST research and analysis of the resilience of the Kotobrzeg municipality to climate challenges were presented, together with digital twin scenarios with the AugmentCity team and technology for dealing with extreme weather events and strengthening the resilience of coastal areas.

Co-Creation Workshop in Bordeaux, France

On the 21st October, the laboratory ETTIS of INRAE, the University of Bordeaux – Business School of Economics and AugmentCity organized a co-creation workshop in the city center of Bordeaux.

At this stage of the project, the aim of the workshop was to study how the deployment of a digital twin can influence the understanding of issues linked to climate change and the decision-making process in terms of risk management and adaptation to make the region more resilient. The workshop focused on the issue of mobility in the face of the risks of flooding and inundation in the Greater Bordeaux area, with the main objective of exploring how digital twins could improve participants’ understanding of the issues and, above all, how this tool could have an impact on the co-construction of solutions to improve resilience.

Taking the Bordeaux metropolitan area as a case study, two deliberation workshops have been organised to enable participants to discuss and work on scenarios illustrating the risk of flooding and its impact in terms of mobility in the conurbation.

The aim of these workshops was to involve a group of citizens (including residents of the metropolitan area, experts, scientists, members of environmental associations, etc.) in the co-construction of solutions to concrete challenges linked to climate resilience. They have also been used to assess the effectiveness of the digital twin as a problem-solving tool, by visualising the issues to be tackled.

The workshop brought together 18 participants from a wide range of backgrounds: lay citizens, institutional actors (Bordeaux Metropole and Gironde Departmental Council), private actors and voluntary organisations, who were divided into two groups.

Each of the two groups was asked to discuss together, in the presence of a facilitator, the challenges of flooding in the Bordeaux metropolis and its impact on mobility, illustrated by various scenarios reflecting different situations related to flooding. However, the two workshops did not use the same tools to support these discussions. The first workshop used a digital twin to project the scenarios developed by AugmentCity for different case studies to be discussed on a 3D map. The second workshop used more standard tools such as paper maps.

The results are currently being analysed and should provide some conclusions in terms of understanding the issues at stake and the solutions to be implemented in the face of flood risk. We also hope to highlight the similarities and differences between the two groups, depending on the type of tool used to support the discussions.

The results and conclusions of the workshop will be published soon on our website.