Parkly and CHAOS are forming a partnership to create new kind of synergies around our common goal: to create better public places and more liveable cities.
Parkly and CHAOS are both young startups, founded in Finland. They share an inspiring vision: creating sustainable, liveable and green cities. Parkly focuses on place-making, circulation and urban green whereas CHAOS provides urban forecasts and crowd insights through their AI-powered dashboard to create more liveable cities. The main goal of CHAOS and Parkly’s partnership is to form synergy in creating more green and sustainable cities.
CHAOS is PropTech, i.e. property technology, which refers to solutions that make real estate more efficient in research, analytics and property management.
“Real estate is a among the largest asset classes in the world. It has an important role in urban development and for combatting climate change. Cities should be built in a sustainable manner, but so far the investments and planning are being done with old-fashioned measures”, reveals Natalia Rincón, CEO and Co-founder of CHAOS Architects.
“We are also talking about an industry, that is very conservative. It changes slowly. We can already see how young people are frustrated with slow change when it comes to solving climate change and they are taking matters in to their own hands. We want to be playing with those actors: the ones who are willing to change. We also want to help businesses to see the value of liveable cities”, Rincón adds.
"Cities should be built in a sustainable manner, but so far the investments and planning are being done with old-fashioned measures."
Parkly was created to fast-track the transformation of public places and to accelerate sustainable urban change. The founders of Parkly believe that happy places and happy people go hand-in-hand. The importance of good public places and local neighbourhoods is growing and Parkly wants to speed up the development of these spaces with modular solutions. Therefore Parkly makes tactical urbanism, which refers to cost-effective and temporary changes in the built environment which improve public spaces.
“We are passionate about better public spaces, the core of good city life and thriving communities. We want to bring out the best in public spaces so that we can fully utilise their potential. Public spaces are the core of urban environments”, says Päivi Raivio, co-founder of Parkly.
Parklys Partnership with CHAOS enables them to make proactive tactical urbanism and pinpoint the locations where liveability could be improved.
“CHAOS and Parkly share a common vision, strong startup-mentality and the desire to change the status quo. We do things differently and believethat cities should be made for people”, Raivio adds.
The partnership between these two companies was announced on Wednesday 17th, during the Level Up event which they organised in collaboration. Level Up included inspiring cases and new solutions for active exchange of ideas and expanded networks. The presenters shared insights and innovative solutions for sustainable cities. The goal of the event was to gather real estate investors, planners and innovators together to share their knowledge, ideas and to form new collaborative models for sustainable urban change.
However, Level Up is only scratching the surface of the partnership. The majority of the partnership happens behind closed doors; in interaction with decision makers, urban planners and real estate developers. Interesting articles about the partnership are just behind the corner.
“We are excited about the partnership. It requires strong networks and partnerships to create liveable cities”, says Rincón.
Parkly is a modular and easily scalable public furniture to enliven public places and to improve the liveability of cities. With Parkly it is easy to add plants and greenery on all surfaces from concrete yards to public squares and parklets. Parkly green modules contain edible plants, pollinator friendly plants or small trees to add more green in urban environments and to support biodiversity. While adding more urban green, for each module produced, Parkly protects 20 sqm of old growth forests in Finland.
Parkly is based on placemaking methodology for place-led development and people-driven, greener cities.
Parkly brings out the best of public places and their potential with a flexible and smart solution.
CHAOS is an urban forecasting company for real estate investors and city developers. Our AI platform processes urban data and crowd insights to forecast investment and development for creating liveable cities.
At CHAOS, we believe that the development and economic growth of liveable cities depend on stakeholders making informed people-focused decisions.
Our solution is a dynamic SaaS platform that combines People & Location Intelligence to create insights and city forecasts through artificial intelligence. This enables our customers to perform higher degree analyses for their investment and city development decisions, which ensures high-value deals for them while leading to the creation of more liveable and sustainable cities around the world.
For more details about the partnership, contact:
Siiri Fagerlund
Marketing Manger
CHAOS
siiri(at)chaosarchitects.com
Natalia Rincón
Co-founder & CEO
CHAOS
natalia.rincon(at)chaosarchitects.com
Päivi Raivio
Founder
Parkly
paivi.raivio(at)helloparkly.com
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