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Day 1 - September 23 13:00-17:00 Workshop

Workshop: Design and knowledge

Experts to be announced

Multiple Rooms

Who designs the AI layer - with what profile, authority and criteria?


By 2035, every European city has a team of AI designers who think like urban planners and understand how AI works. They have the authority to determine what AI does and does not do in the city - based on established criteria derived from local values and European frameworks.

Questions per time step

  • 2035: What is in place and working? Who holds the reins?
  • 2031: What agreements, standards or structures are already operational?
  • 2027: What has been started, tested or decided?
  • Before end of 2026: What must begin now - and who takes the initiative


Contribution to the declaration

What must a European city be able to do and know to design its own AI layer?


What do we work on in this workshop?

  • Defining the profile of the AI designer as a new urban professional - and launching training programmes.
  • Establishing a European framework for the criteria by which AI applications in cities are assessed.
  • Organising the way in which urban planning departments gain formal authority to evaluate and reject AI applications.