The TWIN2EXPAND partners from the consortium met in Chalmers, in Gothenburg, for the working studio B (WGSB) on research excellence. The group’s activities focused on the project’s scientific impact and examined examples and cases from both academic research and practice on how Evidence-Based Design and Planning (EBDP) can be applied in this context. The WGSB brought together experts, researchers, and professionals from various strands of EBDP, such as design theory, spatial analysis, spatial planning, urban analytics, integrated urban modeling, urban design, and sustainable development.
The main objective of the WGS B was to establish a unified conceptual framework of EBDP, open avenues for methodological development and inform the project’s research activities, that will produce the scientific outputs, such as papers, conceptual model, and comparative evidence.
During the 3-days event, the consortium was introduced to the research practices and background of the Spatial Morphology Group (SMoG) and the International Spatial Morphology Lab (SMoL). (The groups’ representatives, Meta Berghauser Pont, Ioanna Stavroulaki and Jorge Gil also hosted informative sessions about integrated data models, data management and FAIR principles.
The working group comprised two main themes: how EBDP is applied in education and how EBDP is applied in practice, with presentations from academia, the Social Ecological Urbanism Studio and from practice with tools that have been developed such as Place Syntax and Urban Calculator. The group explored how EBDP is applied in practice and how municipal planning can improve decision-making capacities by examining specific case studies.
The team enjoyed a walk and dinner around Gothenburg and benefited from the northern long days, good weather and masterfully designed urban landscape.
The WGSB concluded with an intensive collaborative session, where the case studies of the research project were discussed, and the research framework was outlined.

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