CoCoNet – Co-creative Cohabitation Network
2025-2027, Vienna-Zurich-Munich
EU-Partnership Driving Urban Transitions (DUT)
Project Partners
TU Wien, Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning (Lead)
ETH Zürich, Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems
TU München, Department of Life Science Systems
yverkehrsplanung GmbH
Cooperation Partners
City administrations of Vienna, Zurich, Munich, Erfurt
Lokale Agenda 21 Wien, umverkehR, Seebahnpark Zürich (NGOs)
Urban planning is fragmented, with mobility, climate, and ecology rarely integrated explicitly. This siloed approach results in missed synergies and spatial conflicts. At the district scale, urban street environments concentrate these competing demands, making them crucial areas for tangible and meaningful change.
CoCoNet develops new ways to reveal and act on the links between mobility, microclimate, ecological networks, and soundscapes, placing spatial quality and co-creation at the center of sustainable street transformation. Nature-based solutions are integrated with mobility strategies to strengthen urban resilience, moving beyond conventional biodiversity measures by embedding human–nature interactions in the design process. Spatial modelling and design are connected through iterative, co-creative processes involving municipal authorities, local initiatives, and students. Immersive 3D audio-visual point cloud models serve as shared references, fostering dialogue, negotiation, and collective decision-making.
The project delivers practical tools and spatial evidence to guide climate-resilient, biodiverse, and inclusive urban street transformations. Participatory approaches build institutional capacity, encourage cross-sector collaboration, and create long-term commitment to integrated planning. By embedding these practices in real contexts, CoCoNet supports a transition toward holistic, evidence-driven urban development that reduces car dependency and improves quality of life., co-creative, and evidence-based planning that reduces car dependency while enhancing urban quality of life.
Figure Above: The course Topology “Subtropical Blend” led by Matthias Vollmer and Philipp Urech brought students to reimagine the streetscape of Gertrudstrasse in Zurich taking into account the urban climate shift. Authors of the composition “Future Steps”: Philippe Wegmann, Ludwig Henke