Peloton Smart Retro Acceleration Program + New Partnerships + Foresight + Analyses on Emerging Opportunities in Cities

= Novel Way to Develop Cities

MODEL & SCALEConcept a new business model for refurbishment through innovative regeneration.

Plan to move and multiply the sustainable lifestyles service coalition and new model to a new site

CO-DESIGNCompanies, residents, municipal actors and other stakeholders develop the services together first on innovation camp, and then test them in the daily lives of the areas.

IDENTIFY best practices, models and close-to-market consumer services, startups and citizen initiatives in the Nordic Countries enabling sustainable lifestyles. Identify special qualities, needs and wishes of the areas. Analyze of Nordic refurbishment models.

BUILD SCENARIOS that depict alternative futures of built environmental evolution, lifestyle transitions and local service economy and communicate commercial and sustainability potential of services.

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S M A R T R E T R O M I L E S T O N E S

Smart Retro Kick-off 5/2014

The Smart Retro web

The most viewed page: Meet the people

Smart Retro Acceleration Program

62 teams applied

Smart Retro Baseline Report

Copenhagen Nov 20

Helsinki Dec 1

The wicked reality: retro building stock

Baseline report, Nordic Built

The replacement rate of existing building stock is low, with official figures in Europe at around 1–2% per year

Online retail sales in Europe alone are set to double by 2019, growing from €165 billion in 2013 to €330 billion in 2019

31% of Finnish residential building stock was built between 1946-1970.

Buildings account for up to 40% of all energy consumption in Finland and the rest of Europe, and represent a similar share

of Finland’s GHG emissions

Trends driving the change in Nordic cities

Efficient buildings

Sustainable lifestyles

Smart services

Smartups

Retrofitting projects

Retrofitting projects

Energy use in buildingsRanging from total use to specific measurements of for heating, hot water and electricity; overall water use; carbon dioxide emissions

Social issuesChanges in employment rate, education, income level

Residents perceptionsSafety, general likability

Direct economic consequences of the projectRents, maintenance costs, property value etc.

Biopsychosocial (only employed in Botkyrka)Health (physical activity & experienced violence); sense of safety and belonging; trust towards other residents; employment indicators; school success

What defines a successful project?

•follow-up measurements (before and after the project)•comparative measurements between areas

Placemaking

The Case Areas

City Centre, Lahti

• In 1940–1975, the population of the Lahti region doubled and the population of the city tripled.

• Lahti’s population in general is older than in other Finnish big cities

• The direct railroad connection to Helsinki (since 2005) has made commuting to or from Lahti a feasible option.

• Lahti Green City 2008-

• The goal is to make the city centre a pedestrian friendly area.

• Intermodal travel centre and a large-scale underground parking system under construction in the centre.

City Centre, Lahti

• The construction work of the new underground parking has pushed lots of older shop-keepers to quit.

• Currently, almost a third of Lahti city centre’s population is over 65 years old.

• Many consider public transit dysfunctional and tariffs expensive

• The ring of hyper-markets outside the city centre

• Vicious circle: attitude-action-perception

Challenges

City Centre, Lahti

1. It is often a real struggle to transform sustainability goals into concrete action. Cities, companies and other organisations are lacking in profitable and functional models linking existing structures to action, which could then enable a shift towards sustainability.

2. Integrating social, economical and environmental aspects is still a fairly rare approach in refurbishment, and seeing sustainable lifestyles as a potential boost for local business is an even more novel idea.

3. For many potential startups it is a challenge to build a profitable firm in the current business environment and to survive the time-span of the next 1–5 years. Their markets are only just beginning to emerge. Therefore, there is a need for a new model of collaboration.

4. The old way of attracting capital to cities was through one big single employer or an institution of higher education locating to the area. In the future it could be the other way around: money and jobs would come after people.

Conclusions

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2. Fill in your estimation 4. Signature

5. If your colleague is not present, fill in his/her contribution on other sheet

6.If you can recall other contributions, there is a special sheet for reporting them given to each organization’s contact person. Rest of the in kind other will be reported online.

Reporting in kind

3. Add a task under the correct

milestone. Rememberthe date!

Something missing?

City Car Club, car-sharing services

Ekern & Gamla Enskede Lådcyklar AB, Cargo bike fleets

Fourdeg, smart-energy solutions

Greenely, visualizer of households’ energy consumption

IAgree, an app that helps people have their say on things that matter to them locally

Meido, social living network for housing companies

MoralGuard, connects consumer attitudes to sustainability and wellbeing

Nurmi Clothing, sustainable clothing label

PiggyBaggy, crowd-sourced delivery service

Remarket, curated online marketplace for second-hand clothing

Urban Fruit Initiative, hyper-local produce made from surplus fruit

Yhteismaa, participatory city culture, co-creation and social movements

Mea Manna, organic food made by people who have learning difficulties

Puoti, lifestyle store selling eco fashion and vintage clothing

Benjamin maatilatori, countryside shops selling local farm produce

Impact Agency, a collaborative platform for lifelong learning and improving entrepreneurship

This is Peloton Smart Retro Acceleration program 2014-2015

Peloton Smart Retro Acceleration Program

Dec 2014

Jan 2015

Mar-Apr 2015

Sep-Oct 2014

SMART RETROINNOVATION CAMP

PELOTON

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What should we do in the coming months to

actualize this promise?

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