REMOVER OF OBSTACLES
Urban Innovation Exchange
PROTOTYPING THE FUTURE
KEY CONCEPTS
Smart Cities
Green Cities
Sustainability
Green Infrastructure
Impact Investing
Creative Culture
Social Capital
Civic Engagement
Entrepreneurship
Sharing Economy
Design Thinking
Living Systems
French Polynesian Floating Island Project
"Two of the biggest problems in the world are sea level change and the lack of start up innovation and governance. Seasteading is a technology to solve both" Joe Quirk; ...
Prototyping the Future 2016 Expo & Conference
PTF2016 / Speakers / Sponsors / Agenda / Workshops / Venue GREENER ~ SMARTER ~ CITIES October 28 - 29, 2016; Zero Net Energy Center, San Leandro, CA “The 21st century will not be dominated by ...
Rapa Nui Sustainable Development Study
Mai Ki Keu Keu Tatou Henua e Hoi!; Creating an Integrated and Sustainable Rapa Nui International Workshop on Sustainable Local Development Download project report/book (PDF) Download final presentation (PDF) Rapa …
Puglia Smart Lab Technology Venture Learning Journey
The 30 day in-residence Learning Journey for the Puglia Smart Lab Delegation for the ‘Technology Venture’ was designed to provide a meaningful and dynamic month-long program that gave the participants a …
Prototyping the Future Expo & Conference 2014
The Prototyping the Future Exposition and Conference was a one-day event focused on experimentation and near future scenarios based on ultra high speed broadband and three convergent technologies (Gigabit Fiber, Internet ...
Chinese Federal NDRC Tour
The Central San Francisco Innovation and Sustainability Tour was commissioned by Boeing China for the 2012 NDRC Executive Development Program. The theme of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) visit to …
SUAPE Global Regional Development Strategy
The four-week workshop was coordinated with local and federal institutions to develop projects and policy proposals for long-range sustainable planning efforts related to the SUAPE International Port development project on …
Valparaiso Chile Preservation Strategy
The project in Valparaiso was a joint effort between EcoPolis International Master and the undergraduate architecture students of the Department of Architecture at the Federico Santa Maria Technical University of …
Yuba City Downtown Revitalization
The Plumas Street Improvements Project represents the second phase of Freedman Tung & Bottomley’s highly successful Central City Specific Plan & Revitalization Strategy which dramatically revitalized an underutilized area dominated …
Livermore CA Downtown Revitalization
The First Street streetscape project was the keystone capital improvement recommended as part of the Livermore Downtown Specific Plan. The design incorporates elements of Livermore’s winery, working ranch, and gardenesque …
Whittier Boulevard Downtown Improvements
East-west Whittier Boulevard traverses two miles through the center of the City of Montebello, connecting it to neighboring East Los Angeles and Pico Rivera. Freeways, shopping malls, economic decline, single-use …
Alagoas Coral Coast Strategic Plan
This integrated coastal management strategic plan was a consulting project with the Ferrara Research Consortium (CFR). The projects was initiated following an initial study completed as part of the activities …
OUR MISSION is to help every city become the jewel that it has the potential to be.
INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
UIX Global is a legacy organization currently under the management of Deep Blue Insitute. From 2012 to 2020, UIX Global developed and applied the Program-Based Planning methodology to transform local economic ecosystems through the cultivation of fertile civic innovation environments where emergent Smart City / Green City development strategies can take root and flourish in an integrated and sustainable manner. Based in the heart of the San Francisco Bay and Silicon Valley region, UIX Global was a pioneer in multi-sector (P3) participatory economic development models, applying advanced concepts in experiential design, and working collaboratively with our powerful network of cross-sector partners from around the world.
UIX Global guided cities and corporations (promoting CSR) through economic development initiatives that maximize local resources*, multiplying critical growth assets through the design and implementation of public-private partnerships (P3), accelerating the alignment of strategic funding and rapid prototyping processes for streamlined implementation of transformative urban-scale pilot projects and events.
* Human resource, investment capital, infrastructure, image and marketing potential
