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Julia coordinates real-life experiments in which researchers close certain streets or intersections for a certain period of time and work together with politics, administration and the local neighborhood to do so. She leads the research project Experi Berlin, a collaborative project between the Technische Universität Berlin, the Institute for Transformative Sustainability Research (IASS) Potsdam and the DLR Institute for Transport Research Berlin.

Here, Julia is researching how such an intervention changes the mobility behavior of residents and how the change in public space is accepted. The concept behind such interventions is called Tactical Urbanism. In the podcast, the researcher explains the opportunities such interventions offer, how she deals with controversial reactions to the projects and what the research has revealed so far.

Particularly interesting against the backdrop of Open Innovation is the participatory approach of the real experiments: Julia reports on the challenges of collaborating with different actors. Administration, politics, research and civil society have very different logics, she explains. This sometimes makes collaboration difficult, but it is precisely this combination that makes research so important for a successful transport revolution - because it must be supported and shaped by society as a whole.

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