PopUpUrbanSpaces

The PopUpUrbanSpaces project is a transnational initiative of 10 partners co-financed by the Interreg Central Europe Programme. A key challenge that hinders making urban mobility systems sustainable is that most people are not willing to abandon cars and shift to a combination of public transport, micro-mobility, and active forms of transport. The overall objective of the project is to enable the public sector and related entities in functional urban areas to encourage changes in the travel behaviour of citizens and to trigger shifts towards smart and sustainable forms of urban mobility by actively involving inhabitants in testing innovative green approaches as well as digital technologies, using tactical urbanism approaches. The PopUpUrbanSpaces approach is based on the concept of “Show and Tell”: - the project enables cities to apply innovative methods based on tactical urbanism/placemaking practices to SHOW citizens (and decision-makers) through pop-up interventions what it would be like to have streets, public spaces not dominated by cars; - the project develops innovative digital campaigning tools/methods to TELL (explain) people the risks of car-oriented urban mobility;