REGIONAL FORESIGHT

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Regional Foresight initiates participatory processes and networks which help to keep cities and regions liveable and competitive. In this area, our focus is on vision processes and scenario processes with a long-term time horizon.

 

SPIDER

The Innovative Energy of Regions The Project “SPIDER: Increasing Regional Competitiveness Through Futures Research Methods”, funded by the European Commission, was completed in 2006. It examined how regional innovative energy can be increased by employing Foresight methods. In cooperation with the Finland Futures Research Centre and the Institute Jules Destrée (Belgium), Z_punkt compiled scenarios, visions, and guidance reports for three European regions.

Our Future: Linz 21

Urban Futures From mid-2002 to early 2004, Z_punkt supported – in collaboration with the Ars Electronica Center - the city of Linz in designing a large-scale, participatory future process, especially with regard to developing explorative scenarios which can be used as important pointers and guides for urban action.