Looper project synthesis report

In cities all over the world, local people face similar problems: How can our kids get to school in safety? Where are all the buses? Why does local government seem to not care about us? 

Meanwhile, local governments also face similar problems, from the other side of the table: How to mobilize the resources of the community? How to find out more about what they want or need? How to use this to provide better services at lower cost?
The Looper Model starts to bridge this gap. It shows how community-based visioning and design can lead to better neighbourhoods. We call this ‘co-creation’ – active involvement and empowerment of citizens, to collect data, design solutions and monitor the outcomes.

The Looper Model is a set of methods and tools to support local co-creation. It works with ‘learning loops,’ which bring together local knowledge with local decision-making. The Looper Toolkit comprises online and offline tools to support the learning loops. 
Three Looper Living Labs in Brussels, Manchester and Verona, each developed and tested the Looper Model and Looper Toolkit. 
All this helps to keep people ‘in the loop’, and to ‘close the loop’, so that local knowledge can lead to local action. The Looper Model in any city can help with practical solutions for air quality, noise, traffic safety, security, greenspace and other challenges in the public realm.