Projects in Architecture and planning

The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of robust and well-functioning public spaces in cities and communities. It also revealed, through emerging everyday patterns, the need to rethink how we use these “urban living rooms” in the future. This challenge formed the starting point for the pr…

This project aims to strengthen architects' ability to use and develop design technologies for a more efficient, sustainable, and business-oriented architectural practice.

The purpose of the mapping is to create a basis for developing Skaraborg's cultural infrastructure. The report is partly concentrated on the activities and organizational structures of municipal cultural activities, and partly on culture's supporting role in society.

School choice policies and demographic shifts place new demands on how municipality schools are sited and organised. In this R&I project, RISE — working with two local authorities and twelve schools — developed a prototype valuation tool that incorporates the perceived and economic value of accessi…

Five of the largest cities in northern Sweden - Luleå, Umeå, Örnsköldsvik, Östersund and Sundsvall - are working together to lead the development of northern Sweden. Together with RISE, they have developed a strategy for sustainable urban development.

Strategy Network City Skaraborg is joint overall planning for the 15 municipalities of the Skaraborg subregion. The strategy is led by Skaraborg's municipal association. The purpose of the strategy is to build organizational and institutional capacity as the basis for a coherent multi-core region t…

Mobility services that reduce car use and make space for more housing, more greenery and a better living environment in car-dominated residential areas

RISE is designing to decrease barriers people with visual impairments encounter when voting . The government has given Valmyndigheten the assignment, in collaboration with RISE, to produce solutions for people with visual impairment to cast their vote independently. The process is user centered foc…

Many city- and town centers of today fight for their’ survival. Thus, it is important that decision makers have continuous access to high quality data as a way of making knowledge-driven decisions. In this project RISE and the organization Swedish City Centers explore the possibility of creating a …

Many urban development projects struggle with the problem of "social issues" getting "lost" and forgotten over time. Furthermore, different actors use varying language in order to understand what social sustainability in relation to urban development is. The tool PRISMA has been developed in order …

Smart Housing Småland is an accelerator and catalyst for business and a motor in the regional innovation and growth system around Småland's strengths wood and glass. The task is to strengthen competitiveness and growth by creating good collaborations between all actors in society, both at national …