ReVIVRE

Climate change confronts cities and municipalities with urgent challenges such as heat stress, stormwater management and sustainable mobility. Especially in cross-border regions, coordinated solutions are essential. The RéVIVRE research project addresses the question of how public spaces can be made more resilient to climate change and how citizens can be actively engaged in this transition. The project aims to generate new scientific knowledge on participatory methods and immersive technologies (extended reality, XR) that make urban planning and climate adaptation tangible and comprehensible. Core objectives include analysing local knowledge and GIS data to identify priority areas, developing an immersive co-creation tool (“relief map of the future”), and testing the effectiveness of tactical urban planning as an approach to evaluate climate adaptation in practice. Methodologically, RéVIVRE combines qualitative and quantitative research, involving citizens, local authorities, researchers and experts. Through co-creative experiments, field trials and scientific evaluation, the project investigates social acceptance, effectiveness and replicability of climate adaptation measures. The expected outcomes are new insights into participatory decision-making in spatial planning, innovative XR-based research tools, and practically applicable methodologies for climate-resilient design of public spaces. These research results contribute to European ambitions under the Green Deal, the Adaptation Strategy and the Urban Agenda, and provide replicable models for cross-border climate action.