Minority Report

Research Pillar: Climate Action and Sustainability

Project Name/Title/Acronym: Minority Report

Funding Body: Horizon Europe - European Union's Horizon Innovation Actions (Grant Agreement No. 101147385) 

Project Timeframe: June 2024 - December 2027

Key Output(s): Co-Creation Framework

Project Description:

Minority report is 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. The project mission is to leverage cutting-edge technologies and collaborative approaches to safeguard these populations and their homes.

Role of TrinityHaus:

TrinityHaus focuses on co-creation and the intersection between the built environment, health, wellbeing inclusion, climate action and sustainability.  In relation to Minority Report, TrinityHaus will be involved in a number of work packages, with a particular focus on WP1: Stakeholder Engagement & Co-Design.  Specifically, the research team will be participating in tasks on the following:

• Stakeholder mapping: this task will establish a ‘base set’ of stakeholder categories (social, geographic, gender, age, people with disabilities) and their interaction with the built environment ; identifying stakeholders cross key spatial scales (e.g. building, neighbourhood, district) and relevant settings (e.g. residential, long term residential care, health, education, childcare, commercial, etc.), this task will be framed by context specific stakeholders at each of the 3 sites​.  Based on this task, KPIs to characterize the behaviour of citizens in response to climatic /natural disaster events​ will be developed.
• Co-creation in the demo Sites​: this task will further interrogate key place-based issues/features & key stakeholder characteristics at each site, as well as uncovering more details on ​the levels of awareness & preparedness of  stakeholders on issues & solutions in case of extreme climatic events & natural disasters.  As part of this task, TrinityHaus will lead on the development of Personas & Scenarios for Patras, Wellington, Dublin; these will comprise a ​suite of culturally & contextually appropriate ‘personas & scenarios’ for each site, 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)​.