The Productive Region

Team Point of View

The productive region presents itself as a concept for regional and local strategic planning. Here, at the regional level particularly, the inter-municipal cooperation of the Bergische Kooperation is addressed and gives first guard rails, which are to serve in the further planning as supporting pillar.
At the local level, the focus is on the implementation of the Zukunftsquartiere at the respective locations. The concept focuses on sustainable, inclusive and qualitative implementation. Productivity is more than just the combination of living and working, it is a mix of different uses and diverse milieus at one place that creates a vibrant and liveable location. This concept is to be implemented individually for all four locations with their own characteristics.

Jury Point of View

The team elaborates a holistic planning strategy based on the themes of the session: ecological resources, new mobility, and fairness, in combination with a regional, collective approach to the Bergische Kooperation that reacts individually to the local qualities and potentials of the different sites. The strategy for the region is developed as a logical and sustainable concept that offers a comprehensive guiding principle based on a tool kit for the topics of space, use, ecology, and mobility. Applied to the respective sites, the concept finds coherent implementation and localization in networked infrastructures and circulation systems.