“Laser Valley – Smart Urban Development” 1st workshop

A transformational vision for Magurele needs more than the replication of imported success stories. It needs to catalyze expertise that may add value to this ambitious project – the expertise of members of the local community, of urban planners and environmental specialists, of academia and private companies, and many others.
It is precisely through such a process of participation ‘in the small’ that the “Laser Valley – Land of Lights” vision took shape in two co-design workshops.
The first one was co-organized by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) and the Chair in a Planning Charette format: participants worked in teams, debated, and chose, in a card game, key ingredients for three development scenarios. These were the High Tech Hub, the Creative Community, and the Entrepreneurial Innovation Region.

The participants – persons with various interests and expertise, were divided into three teams, each focused on one of the three development scenarios. They discussed, debated and negotiated in order to identify the ingredients that could go into the developing of an ambitious project like Laser Valley, but also the challenges that might occur.