SPACERGY: Space-Energy patterns for smart energy infrastructures, community reciprocities and related governance

Project summary

SPACERGY builds upon the need of planning authorities to implement new models for integration of 'prosumers' and smart mobility departing from the exploitation of their reciprocities in future patterns of urbanization. Several policies are made by each EU nation, but effective and practical implementation tools are missing. SPACERGY focuses on the role of optimized mobility, spatial morphologies, infrastructural elements and local community participation in regards to the smart use of local resources and addresses a knowledge gap in relation to interactions and synergies between spatial programming, energy and mobility systems planning and stakeholder involvement necessary to improve models of development and governance of urban transformations. Based on detailed spatial morphology and energy use modelling SPACERGY will develop new toolsets and guidelines necessary to advance the implementation of energy efficient forms of development. New toolsets will be tested in three urban areas under development in the cities of Zurich, Almere, Bergen, and verified by action research in Brescia, acting as living laboratories for real-time research and action in collaboration with local stakeholders. The results of this research project will help planners and decision makers to facilitate the transition of their communities to a more efficient, liveable and thus prosperous urban environment.