Table 1
The phases of Hiedanranta ULL and the main roles of the city authorities.
| PHASE 1: SETTING THE STAGE (2015–2019) | PHASE 2: COLLABORATIVE DESIGN (2017–2022) | PHASE 3: IMPLEMENTATION (2022–ONGOING) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main activities | Taking vacant spaces back into use with citizens and small enterprises | Creating the spatial and functional concept of the area, until first city plans | Guiding and forcing collaborations to make innovations real |
| Main roles of city authorities balancing between social and technical innovations | Supporting social innovation: new collaborations, experiments | Supporting technical innovation: including new spatial, functional and technical innovations | Supporting technical innovation that will support social innovation in the future |
| Main roles of city authorities balancing between driving change and changing themselves | Changing themselves as becoming open and courageous partners in several experiments, of which some also failed, creating new legal entities to do so | Driving the change by being the leaders of the collaborative design and consolidating the results into legal documents | Changing themselves by creating new legal entities to guide and manage the building of the area until future residents and other users arrive |
Table 2
The context-connecting practices city authorities used to promote civic resilience across different phases of Hiedanranta ULL.
| CONTEXT-CONNECTING PRACTICE | PHASE 1: SETTING THE STAGE (2015–2019) | PHASE 2: COLLABORATIVE DESIGN (2017–2022) | PHASE 3: IMPLEMENTATION (2022–ONGOING) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bringing actors and contexts together | Renting vacant spaces out cheaply with the demand of organising events that invite new people to the area and fostering practices that bring culture, innovation and planning together | Early co-design workshops and developing local collective spaces (e.g. public sauna) and inviting new kinds of citizens | Demanding, with legal contracts, that builders collaborate to create shared spaces for citizens on a block level and developing a digital platform for citizens (to share spaces, things, services; to support communality; to save energy) |
| Creating persistent tactics | Deliberate openness of the development process and recognising possible strong future actor groups to collaborate with (e.g. skateboarders) | Inviting citizens back several times to check on and further develop the plans and solidifying ideas to legal documents and creating citizen–expert coalitions | Establishing a new legal entity (Hiedanrannan Palvelut Oy) that owns and manages the shared spaces until new residents arrive and establishing efficient public transport early |
| Catalysing positive impact loops | Choosing actors that diversify social groups (e.g. Sopimusvuori) and brave adoption of new roles | Supporting emerged strong concepts (e.g. Nordic Superblock) that inspire varied actors | Residents will own and manage the new variety and quality shared spaces on a block level, deciding themselves how the use of spaces develop in future |