{"id":782,"date":"2025-11-20T16:18:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marrryze.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:39:14","slug":"782","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marrryze.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/782\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcce Co &#8211; Design in Luxembourg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Co &#8211; Design in Luxembourg: an overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luxembourg<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-11-20T16:18:51+01:00\">November 20, 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, I began a book by Mike Lydon &#8220;Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change&#8221; <em>(highly recommend!)<\/em>, where I came across an example of a participatory design &#8211; \u201cSomerville by Design\u201d, a community focused spaces.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Naturally, I got intrigued, if there is something similar in Luxembourg?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That way I found out that<strong> <\/strong>urban development in this city is actually <strong>increasingly<\/strong> shaped by <strong>co-design and citizen participation<\/strong>. Across public spaces, housing projects, and neighborhood planning &#8211; residents are invited to <strong>share ideas, provide feedback, and collaborate with planners and designer<\/strong>s.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It happens through the structured workshops, meeting, conferences, exhibitions, experimental urban labs, etc. And these exact initiatives ensure that the city responds to real community needs. In <strong>public space projects<\/strong>, citizens contribute to the design of streets, squares, and parks, helping to create <strong>vibrant, human-scale environments<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Participatory housing programs allow future residents to <strong>co-create shared living spaces<\/strong>, while local participatory budgets empower communities to propose and vote on projects that matter to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I will talk in details on participatory housing syndicates, Service Urbanisme, Fonds Kirchberg and CFUE, but let\u2019s look for an example so the whole idea is clear to you. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city of <strong>Dudelange <\/strong>is<strong> <\/strong>one of the most active examples of co-design founded in Luxembourg. The municipality runs an open framework, and the key tool here &#8211; the <strong>Participatory Budget<\/strong>: every year, residents can propose ideas for small but impactful improvements &#8211; new community spaces, street-level interventions, mobility solutions, cultural initiatives, or environmental upgrades. After proposals are submitted, the city evaluates feasibility, residents vote, and the winning projects receive funding and support from the municipality. Sounds great, right? More to that, this model <strong>strengthens<\/strong> the connection between citizens and city administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the real cases in Dudelange &#8211; <strong><em>R\u00e9am\u00e9nagement de la Place C\u00e9cile Biever-Wagner, <\/em>or<em> Reallocation of Place C\u00e9cile Biever-Wagner:<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">residents proposed upgrading the square with new seating, small leisure areas, and simple public space interventions to make it more welcoming and usable for daily life. The project was approved through the Participatory Budget programme and is moving toward implementation with municipal support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3a88641f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a2485827701a&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a2485827701a\" class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-custom-border is-style-rounded is-style-rounded--1 wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" 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design, <strong>residents influence decisions<\/strong> through consultations, surveys, and workshops, while temporary installations and urban labs act as \u201cliving experiments\u201d to test the new ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taken together, these approaches reflect a broader trend in Luxembourg: urbanism that is <strong>inclusive, adaptive, <\/strong>and<strong> oriented toward public life<\/strong>. Co-design is not just a method &#8211; it\u2019s a mindset, emphasizing <strong>collaboration, experimentation, <\/strong>and<strong> shared responsibility<\/strong> in shaping the cities we live in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Next posts will explore specific examples, from public spaces and housing initiatives to participatory budgets and urban labs!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co &#8211; Design in Luxembourg: an overview Luxembourg Recently, I began a book by Mike Lydon &#8220;Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change&#8221; (highly recommend!), where I came across an example of a participatory design &#8211; \u201cSomerville by Design\u201d, a community focused spaces.\u00a0 Naturally, I got intrigued, if there is something similar in Luxembourg? 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