Dr Peter J. Reynolds, Executive Director Innovation and the Cities Lab @CitiesPete

Implementing future cities

UK Catapult centres

The Future of Cities

UK strengths

• World-leading companies

• Academic expertise

• Civic tradition

• Creativity & innovation

Future Cities Catapult

capabilities

• Urban Innovation Centre

• Cities Lab

• World-class team

The Catapult’s approach

• Enabling the platforms for urban innovation &

instrumenting the city

• Spotting and supporting commercialisable ideas

• Testing and proving new approaches, especially

through our Cities Lab

• Unlocking finance & developing investable

propositions

10 Cities Lab

Sensing London

Enfield innovation challenge

In-situ city labs

Hyde

Park

Enfield Borough

Elephant & Castle Brixton

Cities Unlocked

Design research

Visioning

Emotional reaction

to the city

19 Open Data

20

Summary

• New centre helping urban innovations go to scale

• Using big data & design thinking, drawing on UK

expertise

• Collaborative research around city

problems

• Leading integrated city bids – developing

consortia

• Developing demand and connecting

expertise

• Success measured through building the market &

commercialisable innovations

futurecities.catapult.org.uk @FutureCitiesCat