BIG barrio Innovation and design arena

Abstract

This document proposes the BIG barrio initiative from a research-project process. It is oriented towards the digital transformation of the territories as a viable strategy for social and public innovation in the city. An approach focused on the needs that, in a latent way, are expressed in the communities of users and residents of the neighbourhoods within a new socio-technological cycle of inhabiting. A new relationship with space and time after the experience of confinement. The neighbourhood as an innovation arena brings together different actors: academic, public, private and the neighbourhood community, in a joint work model of transdisciplinary and cross-sectorial co-design, under the operation format of an urban living laboratory. BIG barrio is an intelligent neighbourhood management platform that mitigates local socio-territorial inequality. It promotes a polycentric development of a close and weightless city through its interoperability in a digital network, placing citizens and their interests at the centre to enhance their associativity and relationship with the common and the public. A city design that expands the use value of its existing infrastructure, providing it with expanded physical-digital services which enable opportunities for citizens.