HeartSmart: Using design co-creation to develop healthier cities
A deeper understanding on smart city design can lead to a healthier city, for its inhabitants, business owners, and visitors.
The concept of a smart city has gained increasing popularity in recent years as cities around the world embrace technologies and innovation to improve the lives of their citizens. At its core, a smart city is defined as a city that uses technology to improve the efficiency, sustainability, and livability of its urban environment.
The concept of a smart city can bring significant health benefits by creating more attractive urban living environments. By using technology to improve the efficiency of transportation systems, reduce energy consumption, and enhance public mobility, for example, cities can become more sustainable, resilient, livable, and be used to promote the health and wellbeing of its citizens. More precisely, this can create opportunities for citizens, businesses, city governments, and even visitors to come together to develop specific ideas on how to use technology and innovation to improve the health and daily lives for multiple stakeholders in that city. This “everyone-has-a-voice” approach is at the core of this HeartSmart idea.
From this, the purpose for this project is to provide a deeper understanding on how smart city design can lead to a healthier city, for its inhabitants, business owners, and visitors.
The project includes researchers in marketing, place branding and design as well as several partners. All four cities where Luleå University of Technology has campuses are included: Luleå, Piteå, Skellefteå and Kiruna.
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Tim Foster
- Associate Professor
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- tim.foster@ltu.se
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