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Lille

Time2Adapt - Time-based Innovative Measures and Experimentations to ADAPT our cities to climate change

EUI Call for Proposals in support to the New European Bauhaus demonstrators

Ongoing

How to ensure EU cities remain liveable as climate change pushes temperatures to new highs? Time2Adapt proposes an integrated, time-based approach that makes the most of the versatility and modularity of existing urban spaces and installations. The solution involves limiting land artificialisation and improving access to comfortable places for citizens, especially the most fragile, during hot summers. Actions range from adjusting opening times, or developing new uses, to temporarily occupying public space with refreshing artistic installations. The project also explores innovative, integrated approaches to managing these places.

Our main challenges...

  • Respond to increasing vulnerabilities linked to climate change (urban heat island effect, droughts, heatwaves).

  • Support structural and cultural changes and the innovative management of public places, including new working practices (co-construction, mutualisation, partnerships, collaborations).

  • Prepare public actors and inhabitants for climate change and make Lille Metropole a resilient territory.

and proposed solutions

  • Reinforcing the provision of cool and safe places using a time-based approach, intensifying existing use, transforming places, and providing temporary outdoor facilities and furniture in public places.

  • Allowing the population to take ownership of cool places. T2A encourages involvement of inhabitants and public services in a design process based on dialogue, co-conception and evaluation.

  • Testing a range of new management methods for public facilities. Increasing access to cool places has consequences for staff working practices and organisation.

Key figures

4 920
additional open hours of access to cool places
15 300
square metres of new cool places provided thanks to T2A experiments (optimisation, intensification, transformation and openings, temporary installations)
75 000
people benefiting from new and upgraded digital services thanks to the metropolitan map of cool places
93
MEL cities with increased knowledge and capacity linked to the innovative solutions developed in T2A

Milestones

Diagnosis of existing and potential cool places
Sep 2024
First experiments of time-based solutions visible
Jul 2025
Broaden the scope of action of time-based solutions to more MEL municipalities
Feb 2026
Toolbox of time-based solutions published
Feb 2027
1. Diagnosis of existing and potential cool places
01 Sep 2024

Diagnosis of cool and potentially cool places. Mapping, analysis and selection of pilot sites 

2. First experiments of time-based solutions visible
01 Jul 2025

Experimentation of new opening schedules, uses and temporary artistic installations in two MEL cities 

3. Broaden the scope of action of time-based solutions to more MEL municipalities
01 Feb 2026

Selection of more MEL municipalities volunteering to pilot time-based solutions in diverse local contexts

4. Toolbox of time-based solutions published
01 Feb 2027

A 'solution reproducibility kit' for urban authorities to improve climate-readiness with time-based solutions