On June 2, DTP PA3 Culture & Tourism and PA8 Competitiveness, together with the projects CINEMA and RESTART_4Danube, organised a common workshop: Designing liveable cities for next generations in the Danube region. The future is more than the linear continuation of the present. With almost 40 participants like regional and national policymakers and from public authorities, we used an interactive design approach to take a view into the mid- and long-term future of the Danube Region. What could be the preferable or desirable future? In an interactive and co-creational setting, we looked at the future time perspective of medium and small town and cities and explored what a liveable city for the next generations would look like.

We succeeded in engaging everybody in a mutual communication on this important topic and came up with our visions of what the perfect city in the Danube Region would look like: safe, eco-friendly, peaceful, attractive to live in and to visit, equal conditions for all age groups and no social injustice. We are hopeful that our and a lot of other EU funding projects are contributing to these goals.