ABOUT
This training module provides learning material on emerging digital technologies and their integration into collaborative, inclusive and sustainability‑oriented urban design. It introduces both conceptual and practical tools that support innovation processes, including participatory mapping approaches and transdisciplinary collaboration, VR‑ and AI‑supported co‑design, and IoT‑enabled sensing in real urban environments. These resources are designed to help learners understand not only how such tools work, but how they can be combined with social, spatial and ethical considerations when used in real contexts. The module also equips learners with knowledge on diverse urban experimentation spaces—from Fab Labs and City Labs to Living Labs, Testbeds and Sandboxes—and understanding on how these provide environments for prototyping, testing, co‑creation and transdisciplinary collaboration across different stages of urban transformation. These spaces support the development of digital and green skills and enable stakeholders to collectively address the complex challenges of urban sustainability, climate neutrality and circularity. The module is developed within the framework of the Distributed Learning Pilot, to support partners and local stakeholders in the four participating regions—Barcelona, Stavanger, Linköping/Norrköping, and Enschede—tackling the joint challenge: How can emerging technologies and collective design practices be integrated to create more inclusive and sustainable urban spaces? This work is part of WP4 of the Erasmus+ funded project ULALABS, Project Reference: 2023 1 ES01 KA220 HED 000157489. The views and opinions expressed in this module are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Spanish Service for the Internationalization of Education (SEPIE). Neither the European Union nor the National Agency SEPIE can be held responsible for them.