Buur Natuur - Collaborative Citymaking for Greener Cities

Abstract

We present Buur Natuur, a design approach to empowering residents to make their neighbourhood greener by adding for instance wildflowers to verges, or establishing communal gardens. Residents are empowered by the deployment of physical artifacts in urban space, offering inspiration and knowledge through a AR interface, as well as by a website, providing a process and platform that facilitates the creation of temporary alliances for a greener neighborhood between citizens, municipalities, NGOs and businesses in the local area.