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This video belongs to a series in which MUV consortium wanted to provide some 'learning lessons' from the work we have done in these three years of activities (2017-2020). My presentation here is about how we learned to co-design beyond the epistemic communities of knowledge we represent, to represent instead the societal values we seek to 'lever' from citizens to policy-makers and the other way around. Working together in a wide partnership of companies with diverse knowledge, in my experience, does require academics more than provide the 'great concept' to apply but to facilitate a co-production of knowledge. To work with data, citizens participation and policy-makers, private companies, local and transnational network in MUV crossed multiple territorial scales (from neighborhood to regions) and multiple cities (as in MUV six neighborhood communities and several open call cities). Our framing adopts a lens that combines theories of change and, a systemic understanding of urban complexity, with a critical pragmatic approach to co-design sustainable urban innovation with data. This allows a reflexive understanding of 'our position' as designers and planners in relation to the values of communities and values of sustainability enabled through data. 

Period18 Apr 2020

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