URBAN TRIGGER AGENCY
Urban Trigger Agency (UTA) is an offshoot of the Urban Trigger Group (UTG), an education and research group specialized on project driven, sustainable, value-chain based urban development. UTG is part of Centre for Real Estate and Facilities Management at the Faculty of Architecture and Design, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). It is also associated with related studies at T.U. Delft in the Netherlands, and UCL in London. UTA is the market oriented, business end of the Urban Trigger activities.
Welcome
to Urban Trigger Agency
The Urban Trigger Group worked at NTNU for more than 15 years with education, education-based research, and innovation, developing methods for how to trigger projects that can drive the synergy of ecological-, social-, and economic sustainability. Urban Trigger Agency turns this competence into practical agency in urban development.
The first years of field work were done in post war Beirut during the 1990's, a city in high intensity transition between urban warfare and project-based reconstruction. We are currently not at war, but the concurrent climate crises, political tensions, and pandemic are charging our built environments with many of the same urgencies and drivers of change. Large political processes and structural changes in national and global economy, not to mention technology, are challenging status quo and powering deep changes. Changes that will have very concrete consequences, but also produce huge open spaces of possibilities on local level.
The Urban Trigger thinking synthetizes classical knowledge architecture and competence, in a broad sense. Over the last 25 years this thinking has been developed through teaching and research on urbanism and cognition. We have developed competence in cognitive science, information theory, urban development, visualization, system design, amongst other related fields. All of it with a focus on the human, living, spatial environment.
Urban Trigger History
The Urban Trigger Group worked at NTNU for more than 15 years with education, education-based research, and innovation, developing methods for how to trigger projects that can drive the synergy of ecological-, social-, and economic sustainability. Urban Trigger Agency turns this competence into practical agency in urban development.
What We Do
The Urban Trigger Group worked at NTNU for more than 15 years with education, teaching-based research, and innovation, developing methods for how to trigger projects that can drive the synergy of environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Urban Trigger Agency turns this competence into practical agency in urban development.
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Core
Visualize the collected data as a map and as a multimedia interactive presentation.
Organize and generate inventory of the regions resources and establish a searchable database.
Collect and organize data on human, financial and natural-based resources in a region or municipality.
WORK PACKAGE 1
Level II
Map the driving forces of change and the potential trigger points with respect to risk and opportunity.
Identify the resources that regional actors base their organizational operations on, and uncover import and export balances on resource use.
Analyze map and database focusing active actors in the region, targeting business operations and their respective vectors.
Level I
Map driving forces of change and potential trigger points with respect to risk and opportunity.
Identify the driving forces behind existing value-chains and resource systems.
Analyze the map and database focusing relevant value-chains and key resource systems.
Level III
Develop generative models for new business. Focusing models that can lead future change towards increased value creation, as well as more intelligent dynamics in the interplay between city and its surroundings.
Utilize uncovered urban triggers and underlying potential to design new value systems and/or value-chains.
Optimize synergy between resource use, client, and system.
Analyze the connections between discoveries at Level I and II. Specifically focusing co-operations and interconnections between resources and actors.
WORK PACKAGE 2
WORK PACKAGE 3
WORK PACKAGE 4
The Urban Trigger Group worked at NTNU for more than 15 years with education, education-based research, and innovation, developing methods for how to trigger projects that can drive the synergy of ecological-, social-, and economic sustainability. Urban Trigger Agency turns this competence into practical agency in urban development.
The Urban Trigger Group worked at NTNU for more than 15 years with education, education-based research, and innovation, developing methods for how to trigger projects that can drive the synergy of environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Urban Trigger Agency turns this competence into practical agency in urban development.
What we do
Visualize the collected data as a map and as a multimedia interactive presentation.
Collect and organize data on human, financial and natural-based resources in a region or municipality.
WORK PACKAGE 1
Core
CORE
Visualize the collected data as a map and as a multimedia interactive presentation.
Organize and generate inventory of the regions resources and establish a searchable database.
Collect and organize data on human, financial and natural-based resources in a region or municipality.
WORK PACKAGE 1
Core
WORK PACKAGE 2
Level I
Map driving forces of change and potential trigger points with respect to risk and opportunity.
Identify the driving forces behind existing value-chains and resource systems.
Analyze the map and database focusing relevant value-chains and key resource systems.
WORK PACKAGE 3
Level II
Map the driving forces of change and the potential trigger points with respect to risk and opportunity.
Identify the resources that regional actors base their organizational operations on, and uncover import and export balances on resource use.
Analyze map and database focusing active actors in the region, targeting business operations and their respective vectors.
WORK PACKAGE 4
Level III
Develop generative models for new business. Focusing models that can lead future change towards increased value creation, as well as more intelligent dynamics in the interplay between city and its surroundings.
Optimize synergy between resource use, client, and system.
Utilize uncovered urban triggers and underlying potential to design new value systems and/or value-chains.
Analyze the connections between discoveries at Level I and II. Specifically focusing co-operations and interconnections between resources and actors.
Visualize the collected data as a map and as a multimedia interactive presentation.
Organize and generate inventory of the regions resources and establish a searchable database.
Collect and organize data on human, financial and natural-based resources in a region or municipality.
WORK PACKAGE 1
Core
WORK PACKAGE 3
Level II
Map driving forces of change and potential trigger points with respect to risk and opportunity.
Analyze map and database focusing active actors in the region, targeting business operations and their respective vectors.
Identify the resources that regional actors base their organizational operations on, and uncover import and export balances on resource use.
WORK PACKAGE 2
Level I
Map driving forces of change and potential trigger points with respect to risk and opportunity.
Identify the driving forces behind existing value-chains and resource systems.
Analyze the map and database focusing relevant value-chains and key resource systems.
WORK PACKAGE 4
Level III
Develop generative models for new business. Focusing models that can lead future change towards increased value creation, as well as more intelligent dynamics in the interplay between city and its surroundings.
Optimize synergy between resource use, client, and system.
Utilize uncovered urban triggers and underlying potential to design new value systems and/or value-chains.
Analyze the connections between discoveries at Level I and II. Specifically focusing co-operations and interconnections between resources and actors.
How we work
How we work
System. Cognition. Value.
Collect, organize, and visualize data on human, financial and natural based resources in a region or municipality.
First principles first: Let data lead the way
Analyze the maps focusing value-chains, key resource systems, and driving forces.
Analyze the dynamics: Uncover system flow
Target active actors, businesses and organizational operations, and uncover balances on resource use with respect to connected systems at play.
Focus the actors: Understand risk and opportunity
Map driving forces of change, and the potential trigger points. Analyze connections between discoveries and focus on operations and interconnections. Through utilization of urban triggers we design new value systems and/or value chains. Developing generative models for new business, focusing change that lead to increased and sustainable value creation.
Build the future
Triggering Sustainable
Urban Value
Our cities are complex systems. We provide actionable insight and strategy into sustainable value-based urban change.
1) Collect, Organize & Visualize
Upon private or public request, our work begins with the construction of an immersive data landscape for investigation and research. Human-, financial- and natural based resources are mapped, structured, and visualized.
2) Analyze,
Identify &
Map
Key actors, resources and value-chains provide insights into driving forces of urban change. Local and international business, resource flows and driving forces are mapped with respect to opportunities and risk.
3) Develop,
Optimize &
Trigger
New value-chains are connected to operations and interconnections between urban resources and actors. Synergy between resource use, client and system is optimized. Trigger is activated along with its generative model for sustainable value creation.