PosadMaxwan and C-creators have developed a tool that supports decision makers, such as municipalities, provinces and developers, in making integral choices in area development. The tool offers insight in a visual and accessible way into the connection between sustainability ambitions, spatial impact, and how measures contribute to closing resource cycles. This makes conflicts and synergies visible, which contributes to better informed decision-making.
What exactly is needed?
Questions the tool could answer:
- What sustainable ambitions can you set as a government or developer in an area development?
- What concrete measures lead to achieving these ambitions?
- How do these ambitions and measures relate to each other? Where do they intersect and where are the linking opportunities?
- How do these measures contribute to closing resource cycles?
- What is the spatial impact of these measures?
- How do I make trade-offs (prioritization) based on this information?
The playing field in which the tool takes place
There are a number of existing policy documents, reports and digital pages with information (Covenant TBB, Leiden Ladder, HNN area, OverMorgen Kompas). There are also a number of tools to make calculations, estimations and other resources (GPR Stedenbouw, DuboCalc, NL Greenlabel, Klimaatladder). However, these mainly focus on a specific component, not on the integral process. Below are the stakeholders who are interested in developing this tool further, have been working on a similar initiative themselves or have a case study on which we can test the tool.
The tool visualizes information on sustainability themes in a clear way. Based on these insights, the tool then facilitates a discussion about the desired ambitions of an area development. The output of this discussion in turn serves as input for the tool. This creates an iterative process in which discussion and tool provide each other with input.
This research was made possible in part by the Creative Industry Stimulation Fund.
