Tehran Urban Innovation Center [TUIC]

Established in 2016 by [Shift] Process Practice, Tehran Urban Innovation Center (TUIC) is a design-by-research, research-by-design practice, dedicated to providing innovative, feasible, and replicable solutions for urban challenges of Tehran. TUIC aims at creating value across the global network of urban innovation, through producing, exchanging, and implementing knowledge within the framework of mode-2 knowledge production. Spatial practices cover a vast range of services and products associated with the physical space in the scale of objects, buildings, and cities. These services and products include hard and soft urban infrastructure, urban experiences, building components, urban furniture, and digital/smart/location-based/interactive urban services. TUIC works on a small scale with a big scope. TUIC adopts itself with situations. TUIC follows the Mode-2 knowledge production. TUIC provides free access to its produced knowledge. TUIC is not a structured organization, but a self-organized platform.