Tips & Tricks
Discover Real-World Experiences: Successes, Challenges, and Best Practices
Welcome to the Tips, and Tricks page! Here, you can uncover practical tips and tricks for launching your own initiatives, and learn from both successes and failures. This page provides valuable insights on overcoming challenges, adopting best practices, and navigating the complexities of urban innovation with a social focus.
To explore CommuniCity’s completed pilot projects, visit the Catalogue of Tools.
A list of 14 tips gathered by project partners that worked on pilot projects and academic research based in the city of Amsterdam.
Check it out here.
Check here some essential points when implementing the living lab methodologies in your piloting practices.
The advice below is part of the Ethical and Inclusivity Framework developed throughout the project by CommuniCity partner Demos Helsinki. The full Framework is available here.
Advice for the design of research and innovation funding schemes that may contain piloting:
When wishing to involve ‘unusual suspects’ in innovation piloting, you need to devote a considerable amount of time to the preparatory phase. Please note that many pressing urban issues require other than technology-based solutions. Based on CommuniCity, an alternative route for non-tech solutions should parallel the tech-focused piloting process.
Fund grounded, inclusive, and context-aware schemes require prioritising of initiatives that demonstrate meaningful engagement with affected communities, thoughtful challenge definition, and clear strategies to ensure access and inclusion from the outset.
Fund pilots as ethical learning processes, not just solution tests. Require prioritising of proposals that commit to relational work, critical reflection, and ethical responsibility, especially in engagements with marginalised communities.
Fund approaches that centre shared credit and accountable practice. Support initiatives that plan for fair recognition, local value creation, and transparent responsibility.