Smart Cities Project Ideas Template

Design thinking Questions Ideas Weekly topics

stage

Empathise What challenges does Week 1:

your city face in the City challenges, systems
next 10 years? thinking, rich picture, core
elements of a smart city.

Define Define the city problem Week 2:

that you want to solve. Role of citizens, design thinking,
Which people or citizen ideas platforms,
organisations are living labs, open innovation,
impacted by the co-creation, rethinking city
problem or might have design.
an influence on the
problem?

Ideate Who would you need Week 3:

to involve in your living Smart infrastructure, city
lab to solve the sensors, data (big, open, closed
problem? and shared), privacy, ethics.
What are your ideas
for solving the Week 4:
problem?
Markets and finance, smart city
ecosystem, data economy, city
open data, hackathons, digital
social innovation, crowdfunding.