Cities are popular again. For the first time in ages, we are seeing numerous groups come forward and bring fourth the message “It’s time to make our cities better”. After all, the city 2.0 was the TexEx 2012 prize winner! The Living Labs Global Award 2012 aims to discover new ways to improve on one of society’s oldest inventions.
“Cities Require new solutions as they face major challenges in areas such as mobility, health, safety, urban management”
and many more are boasted on www.llga.org. Living labs boasts that they have held dialog in over 250 global cities and worked with over 90 million citizens to commit to real urban change.
On the site, you can submit your idea for how to sove a challenge, such as how to keep roads in Guadalajara, Mexico in good shape. Or how to integrate the wireless control of urban systems in San Francisco, California.
Do you have ideas that can help make the world a beter place? Go check it out. The submission deadline is February 17th, and that list will be shortened on March 5th before a winner is announced in Rio de Janeiro.
To get an idea as to what is expected, you can view a video of a shortlist from last year’s award at the top of this article.
This is real world change. The site also states that
Winners of the Living Labs Global Award are invited to implement a pilot of their solution to evaluate impact, provide input into product development or regulatory decisions by cities later on.
I encourage all of our readers to check it out at www.llga.org and if you have an idea to solve on of those problems, you should give it a shot.