Growth pole · horizon 5–8 years
University and services growth pole
Make a campus the engine of an urban pole: education, housing, services, entrepreneurship.
The vision
A well-designed campus transforms a secondary city: an inflow of students and faculty, demand for housing and services, local entrepreneurship. The programme organises that dynamic instead of enduring it — campus, neighbourhoods, transport, energy and incubation designed together.
Programme components
Campus & facilities
Teaching buildings, laboratories, library, sports facilities.
Student life
Halls of residence, catering, health, soft mobility.
Networks
Energy (incl. solar), water, sanitation, campus and district digital.
Knowledge economy
Incubator, business links, continuing education.
Intended effects, to be measured
- Increased intake capacity and quality of training.
- A residential and services economy around the campus.
- Skills retained in the regions.
Anchor — where our legitimacy on this model comes from
Our place
ODT replaces neither the mayor, nor the ministry, nor the funder. It designs, integrates and verifies.
ODT is an architect, an integrator and a trusted third party. It coordinates and designs; it does not replace sector authorities and does not hold the funds. Each model or principle described here is tested on the Productive Territories demonstrators, whose status is dated.
From model to programme
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