Residents and community leaders from the Costanera neighbourhood came to City Lab Biobío’s offices for their first encounter with CityScope technology, which will make it possible to anticipate the impacts across a range of indicators analysed by the city laboratory’s team.
The first time residents of Pedro de Valdivia, Aurora de Chile and Pedro del Río came face to face with the model — assembled from more than 17,000 Lego blocks — featured a presentation by project director Marcela Martínez, who explained to the group what they were looking at, how it was built and what information is visualised in this model, unique in Chile and across the entire Southern Hemisphere.
Drawing on the collection and analysis of a portfolio of 75 public and urban projects planned for this 100-hectare area, those present were able to witness how the impact of these initiatives is modelled, grouped into fourteen interactive tiles — seven representing the current scenario and seven the projected future scenario.
Through their interaction with the CityScope model, residents and the team calculated in real time the variations in indicators such as mobility, activity density, land use diversity and urban design.
Martínez said: “This first experience of the people who live in this area with CityScope allows us to come together around this model to talk and look at Concepción together — and at how we want to transform it to live in a smart city, planned with science, technology and social participation.”
