TWIN2EXPAND hosted its first stakeholders’ meetings at the Society and Urban Form Research Lab of the University of Cyprus in Nicosia.
During the event, members of the TWIN2EXPND team from the University of Cyprus, University College London and Chalmers University of Technology presented what EBDP is and its potential for planning and design. The presentations showed examples of how EBDP is applied in policy and practice in other countries including spatial models, integrated urban models and development projects.
During the presentations, the research team presented the models, tools, data, and research that will be developed and carried out during the project and the potential case studies that the team intends to analyze in depth.
The Stakeholders meeting was a 2-day event where in each session the team presented the project and data into two separate groups. The main questions that the team wanted to address are how an EBDP framework could support urban design practices and critical decision-making by legislative bodies and how an EBDP process is relative and applicable to practitioners.
The first group consisted of practitioners. The intended outcome was to gain feedback on how the tools presented might be useful to them, based on the challenges they face in the field and how we could work in unison to apply EBDP methodologies in planning projects.
The second group included policy makers and representatives from the legislative body. The intended outcome was to showcase the potential to improve critical decision-making by using EBDP practices, especially in the fields of mobility planning, accessibility to amenities and accessibility to green infrastructure and how we could create a framework to ensure good practices in critical decision-making and support to public and municipal sustainable and strategic planning.
