Project Description
The project answers the need for test arenas for urban innovations in Oslo. Testpunkt is the concept of a predefined site that creates opportunity spaces for temporary content. The idea consists of three main components:
- A map to show how you can find the sites
- A proposal for using the already existing application site Byleie.no for where you could apply
- The stakeholders that should be involved and why they should collaborate.
To ensure that the access to Testpunkt is predictable and that everyone could take part in defining the content of the place we've created a framework that applies for all testpunkts.
The project group reached out to multiple stakeholders and relevant actors for understanding and framing the problem, mapping out different needs and bridging similar needs between the actors. We prototyped a map to visualize what the solution could look like and proposed the project to stakeholders who could take the project further.
Context
Today, the process of getting access to areas in the city in order to test out new ideas is unpredictable. This could hinder new sustainable solutions for the future city to be tested out. The proposal of Test points as a solution is a part of concretizing one of the Campus Oslo Strategy goals, which refers to establishing innovation districts in Oslo as test arenas. The work of defining what a test arena in the Oslo context means has just begun, and Testpunkt constitutes a contribution for the way forward.
Project Outcomes
The outcome of this project is a concrete proposal to how City Council for Industry and Ownership and the innovation district Punkt Oslo, through Strategic Cooperation Forum for Knowledge Capital, could define and get access to test arenas in Oslo.
City Connection
- Oslo Campus - Strategy for the development of the knowledge capital
- Event strategy for Oslo Municipality
- Point Oslo - Input to the area part of the municipal plan
Key Staff Contact: Lone Jessen, Point Oslo
City Stakeholders: Malin Gjellestad, City Council for Industry and Ownership
Group Members
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Karianne Skurdal, Urban and Regional Planning, NMBU
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Patricia Magalhaes Folles?, Leadership and Administration, OsloMet
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Adelina Daniyarova, Development Studies, UiO
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Maria Ivancevic, Human Geography, UiO