T-Factor | Urban Regeneration in the city we live in

The T-Factor Project, which started in Europe, is a global initiative to explore the use of "Meanwhile Space" in urban regeneration by 25 partners, including cities, universities, public entities, businesses, experts, non-profit and grassroots organizations.

 About T-Factor 

The cities’ hardware such as buildings and infrastructure has brought great efficiency and convenience to our life, but the complexity and variability of rapid development and the new needs that emerge in the community can no longer be met by existing urban regeneration approaches. Vacant buildings, plots and unused spaces are more and more, the reconstruction of cities’ software - such as social, economic and cultural, has become more necessary.

T-Factor Project wants to explore and establish a set of tested innovation strategies of urban regeneration by studying the existence, design, uses managements and technologies of Meanwhile Space. T-Factor is trying to make the city more thrive and persist, and at the same time act as prototypes for future city and community constructions.

Meanwhile Space: is places that are vacant and unused, and meanwhile can be used as temporary sites for co-creative experimentation.

 T-Factor in EU 

In Europe, the number of Meanwhile Space is in the rising trend, and more and more co-creative experimentations are happening in those spaces. And under this premise, T-Factor was started on June, 2020 in Europe.

The main objective is to transform various historic urban areas in Europe into dynamic hubs conducive to inclusive urban renewal and social innovation and entrepreneurship. Now, 6 European cities have joined T-Factor as pilots, which will help verify the key role that Meanwhile Space plays in unleashing inclusive, sustainable and thriving urban areas.

6 pilots: Amsterdam, London, Milan, Lisbon, Bilbao, Kaunas 

 T-Factor in Shanghai

As the quick development of urban cities in China, urban regeneration and urban transformation have begun to have closer links with innovation, creativity, and culture. Projects like RED TOWN, Si Ping are showing great potential of what the future city might look like.

Under the leadership of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (MOST) , T-Factor project now has closely cooperated with Tongji University College of Design and Innovation, and is trying to study the Meanwhile Space cases in Shanghai and other cities in China.

Through the NICE2035 project and Xinhua Community Design Center (CDC) as a case study, T-Factor in Shanghai hopes to explore a novel urban construction method, and at the same time promote the exchange and cooperation of sustainable methods in urban development between Europe and China.

About NICE2035

NICE2035 is a social innovation project recently launched by Tongji University College of Design and Innovation, which means a three-creation community of "innovation, entrepreneurship, and creation" for 2035.

About Xinhua Community Design Center

Xinhua Community Design Center is a co-creation space led and initiated by Shanghai Xinhua Road government, and Big Fish Community Design Center, a social organization is responsible for operation and carrying out social construction activities.

In this channel, we will share with you more information of the 6 pilots in Europe and keep you updated our latest findings, developments and activities of T-Factor Shanghai. If you are interested in ‘Meanwhile Space’, or if you are already a user or participant, warmly welcome to follow us, and we are also looking forward to hear your views and perspectives.

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