Healthy Liveable Neighbourhoods

The Healthy Liveable Neighborhoods agile piloting programme is part of the Nordic Healthy Cities project. A total of five companies running three different pilots were selected to pilot their solutions in three different urban labs: Helsinki, Vantaa and Stavanger in Norway, with Copenhagen and Kristiansand as follower cities.

A practical example of a pilot is the Green Kalasatama running in Helsinki during the summer and fall 2021. The pilot, implemented by Granlund’s innovation team, demonstrates an engaging and educative approach for resident participation with the use of augmented reality (AR) technology. The mobile application allows users to place green infrastructure elements, such as trees and bushes, in their surrounding area in a virtual environment. This way, the AR solution provides information about the benefits of green infrastructure in the urban environment and helps visualise different landscape designs in a real-life context.

The pilot is being carried out in Sompasaari, one of Kalasatama’s neighbourhoods, with close proximity to the sea and densely built urban residential blocks. The local school children and other residents of the area are invited to take a peek into the future with the Green Kalasatama application, and to voice their opinions on what the green area could look like.