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CIIIC – Feasibility on co-creation in Urban Development

The CIIIC national growth fund funded a feasibility study for a platform that would let residents participate meaningfully in urban development decisions — not through abstract planning documents, but by letting them participate in the urban design process, and letting them experience their designs through VR and XR experiences, in the lab and in the city streets.

This project defined the architecture for that platform: how to represent urban design proposals in a form accessible to non-specialist users, how to collect and structure participant feedback, and how to deploy the system in a multi-stakeholder field context (local authorities, residents, urban designers).

Architecture work

The feasibility study was grounded in web research, workflow and system design, and small code prototypes to verify key technical assumptions. It produced a full component-boundary definition, data flows, and deployment topology for a multi-stakeholder field deployment — sufficient to support the subsequent business plan.

The work also included the business plan and market scan deliverables, which required translating the architecture into a viable commercial and operational model.

Programme context

CIIIC is a Dutch national growth fund programme. This is not EU-funded; it is a separate national instrument.

Credentials demonstrated

National programme delivery, architecture for public-sector field deployment, business plan authoring, multi-stakeholder design, feasibility study methodology.

This study was executed in collaboration with the Trans-Realities Lab of the Design Academy Eindhoven, as part of the CIIIC Urban Development challenge.