Hacking housing development and planning

Fira wants to change the way cities are developed. We want to start a system intelligence change in city planning. Traditionally, city planners have implemented their dreams and primarily forced people to live their lives in... [ view full abstract ]

Fira wants to change the way cities are developed. We want to start a system intelligence change in city planning. Traditionally, city planners have implemented their dreams and primarily forced people to live their lives in those dreams from above. Our model starts from the grassroots level. Locations waiting to be developed will be connected with communities, such as companies or resident groups who are willing to build forms of living and homes for themselves. We want to develop a matchmaking service for people and their dreams, a Tinder for mass flourishing urbanisation. As a result, we would get more personalised, vibrant, user-centered living solutions and public services.

Ultimately, we want to develop an open platform that will replace bureaucracy. Instead of making several rounds of statements on paper, different parties could have an energetic chat together. Our platform would be open, so that citizens can use it to provide each other services.

In the next 20 years, hundreds of thousands of people will be moving to the Helsinki metropolitan area. Our model will make sure that they get more of what they want, need and are willing to pay for. If we can help people feel like they are involved in a vibrant, life-enhancing co-creation process or find the flat of their dreams, for example, it creates mass flourishing. That means that people would become more productive at work and have better ideas. The whole economy would benefit.

The coolest demo to show all this is 100 km Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel with stationtowns for 200 000 new international talents. Tero is the chief visionary of this Peter "angry birds" Vesterbacka's projec.