Unfortunately, this idea was not selected

Unfortunately, the idea did not receive enough votes in the poll and will therefore not proceed to the next phase.

However, the project team and the City of Zurich are reviewing all submitted ideas once again to identify potential synergies with other projects. Perhaps your idea could be implemented even without additional support? Please consider whether you would like to pursue the idea further.

If you’d like to continue getting involved in the pilot neighbourhood, you can also help develop one of the 26 selected ideas. To do so, contact the idea proposers directly or write to mitmachen@pilotquartier.ch.

'as found' - Connecting new ideas for the pilot district and existing informal sustainability networks

Idea not chosen
What should be created?
'as found' means to follow the traces of the everyday, the found, and in doing so to advance to new insights and forms. While we are beginning to fulfil the idea of a net-zero neighbourhood with new offers and infrastructure, it is worth taking a look at existing neighbourhood initiatives and informal networks. For a long time, ideas have been pursued in the neighbourhood in all the topics called upon, which are worth uncovering and reinforcing. Whattsapp groups that swap clothes and everyday things, people who grow fruit and vegetables together in allotments and protect habitats, parent groups that accompany their children to school and daycare as pedibuses and thus avoid traveling... and many others. What established social practices are there in which more people from the neighbourhood can be involved? Will the better visibility of these stable networks achieve quick and lasting results that new initiative must painstakingly prepare? We propose to go on a search - with a mapping of the existing in order to provide previously uninformed people, newcomers, temporary residents with quick and direct access to established networks of sustainable initiatives. The mapping collection can be presented on its own website - or in the online cosmos of the pilot district - and continue to grow. A functional overview is supplemented by lively portraits and short ones by the creators. At a central location - e.g. at Binz train station, Manesseplatz and Kollerwiese - it is worth having an attractive info box with instant information and a QR code. So that it becomes widely known across all media how second-hand, food rescue and car-free life on a small scale is lived in the neighbourhood in a very practical way and everyone is invited to participate.
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Are you an individual or part of a group?
We are an informal group (e.g. neighborhood group)
Name
AG
Are you implementing the idea alone or are you still looking for comrades-in-arms?
I/we implement the idea independently
Describe the place(s)
Outreach in the pilot quarter for mapping, with online display, and with info boxes at activity nodes - Bhf Binz, Kollerwiese, Manesseplatz
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'as found' - Connecting new ideas for the pilot district and existing informal sustainability networks

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