CITY OF TAMPERE

TESOMA SUBURBOPEN INNOVAATION PLATFORM: KOKLAAMO

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The context: Tesoma high-rise suburb

• Build in the 1960s and 1970s

• 8000 inhabitants living in the area, total sphere of influence is 20 000 inhabitants

• Situated 8 km from the city center

• Income and education levels lower than the city average

• Housing prices among the lowest in Tampere

• Social challenges and poor image

• Active associations

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Koklaamo: Open innovation platform for user-centered co-creation and agile experimentation

Main aims of Koklaamo:

1) Create new business opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises by meeting the particular needs and everyday life’s challenges of local inhabitants

2) Encourage the entire urban community to take a new role and responsibility for improving the vitality of it’s own living environment

Solutions for the challenges of everyday life and renewal urban enviroment

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Koklaamo co-creation process

Needs, wishes and

challenges of inhabitants

Formulationof the problem

Identification of relevant actors

Call for newideas to solve the problem Formation of the

teams for each idea

Co-creation (Lean service creation method)

– five workshops and experimentation period

Evaluation

New serviceconcepts

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Thank you!Koklaamo –team / City of Tampere

Nina MustikkamäkiTanja Koivumäki

Lilli-Nora SiikasmaaJohanna Kurela