The interdisciplinary project titled ‘Intelligent social technologies enhancing community interaction and sustainable use of shared living spaces in superblocks (SocialBlock)’ has obtained funding in the last call by INSO platform. The project aims to explore how intelligent technologies can be used to enhance community interaction and motivate residents to share spaces in order to advance sustainable development of urban living areas. The case study will be the Hiedanranta area in the city of Tampere.
The project consortium is formed by a team of researchers with varied backgrounds and representing multiple disciplines at different Faculties at Tampere University: IHTE Human-Centered Technology (coordinator, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences); ETLab Emerging Technologies Laboratory (Faculty of Social Sciences); POLEIS Politics of Space and the Environment (Faculty of Management and Business); SPREAD (Faculty of Built Environment); CME Construction Management and Economics (Faculty of Built Environment).
The Intelligent Society Platform (INSO) is an Academy of Finland funded (2019-23) profiling action that seeks to strengthen cooperation on the TAU strategy axis society–technology. The aim is to contribute to the development of sustainable and equal, or intelligent society through interdisciplinary cooperation.