A smart, future-oriented city should be tailored to its citizens and make people's lives easier. This is mainly about mobility, health and accessibility, but what does that mean for people with disabilities?

Accessibility is about participation, about giving everyone the same opportunities and access as everyone else. Offering solutions so that people with impairments of any kind can have the same experiences or participate equally in everyday life.

Accessibility for all means that we are all affected by this concept, regardless of our profile, accessibility is a goal we want to achieve for our living city. Therefore, we are looking for ideas, visions, but especially also concrete problems and tasks from those affected, which we would like to work on during a weekend with the support of mentors and experts.

Impaired and elderly people are not the only ones affected by accessibility issues. In fact, any:r of us may at some point find ourselves in a situation where we can no longer cope, whether due to a momentary limitation caused by illness or accident, or dementia that slowly takes away more and more independence.

Accessibility affects all aspects of our lives: the school, the shopping centre, our workplace, the restaurant, the museum, public transport, in short the city we live in. Can we create safe places, find solutions to help these people better manage their daily lives, feel comfortable in their city?

To answer these questions together, people with a lot of experience from science, business and the social sector will be available as mentors for new ideas during the weekend.

 Possible questions for this are:

• How should objects be designed so that people with disabilities can use them better?

• How can digital solutions lead to more inclusion in the city? And how should they be designed so that no groups are excluded?

• How can IOT contribute to better coexistence in the daily lives of citizens?

• How can we use available city data to give all citizens access to relevant information for their daily lives?

• We are also open to other everyday problems and issues that affect people with disabilities in Linz.

You can already find concrete tasks in this list:

FRIDAY,
24 March 2023

• 3 pm: Kick-Off @ Dynatrace, Am Fünfundzwanziger Turm 20, 4020 Linz and online via Live-Stream
  • Welcome by Mayor Klaus Luger
  • Presentation of the tasks
  • Match Making and division of the teams
• from 4:30 pm: Development & Mentoring Time
• from 8 pm: Get together @ Innovationshauptplatz, Pfarrgasse 3, 4020 Linz

SATURDAY,
25 March 2023

• from 9 am: Development & Mentoring Time - time slots with mentors by appointment!
• from 7 pm: Get together @ GRAND GARAGE, Tabakfabrik, Peter-Behrens-Platz 6, 4020 Linz

SUNDAY,
26 March 2023

• from 9 am: Development & Mentoring Time - time slots with mentors by appointment!
• from 3 pm: Idea-Pitches & closing event @ Cloudflight, Huemerstraße 23, 4020 Linz and via Live-Stream