TrinityHaus researchers Tom Grey and Dimitra Xidous are delighted to announce that they will join Horizon Europe Project, Minority Report as project partners. 

The project is described as "a pioneering project dedicated to enhancing the resilience of vulnerable urban populations and their built environments against disruptive climate events. As climate change accelerates, the frequency and intensity of events such as flash floods, forest fires, and storm force winds increase, disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable communities. Our mission is to leverage cutting-edge technologies and collaborative approaches to safeguard these populations and their homes." [see https://www.minorityreport-project.eu/en for more information].

In relation to Minority Report, TrinityHaus will be involved in a number of work packages, with a particular focus on Stakeholder Engagement Co-Design. Specifically, the research team will be participating in the following:

  • Stakeholder mapping: will establish a 'base set' of stakeholder categories (social, geographic, gender, age, people with disabilities) and their interaction with the built environment and identifying stakeholders across the key spatial scales and relevant settings (e.g., residential, long-term residential care, health, education, childcare, commercial etc.). Based on this, KPIs to characterise the behaviour of citizens in response to climatic/natural disaster events will be developed. 
  • Co-creation in the demo sites: will further interrogate key place-based issues/features and key stakeholder characteristics at each site, as well as uncovering more details on the levels of awareness and preparedness of stakeholders on issues and solutions in case of extreme climatic events and natural disasters. As part of this task, TrinityHaus will lead on the development of Personas and Scenarios for demo sites: Patras, Wellington, and Dublin, comprising a suite of culturally and contextually appropriate 'personas and scenarios' for each sites, with realistic narrative accounts of key user experiences/perspectives (persona) in relation to a) everyday (normal); b) acute situations (event) occurring in specific settings (scenarios).