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Adelaide is a city designed to continually support and enrich the wellbeing and quality of life of its people.
As such, in the wake of the impact of COVID-19, we're looking toward a positive future and have asked what you need from our city in the weeks, months and possibly even years to come.
Together, we need to recover + reimagine Adelaide as a thriving city.
Thank you!
We have been overwhelmed with all of the incredible ideas we have received from the Adelaide community throughout our Recover + Reimagine initiative. Your contribution has helped us better understand how we can assist Adelaide to recover from the affects of COVID-19 and reimagine itself as a thriving city.
We have implemented a broad range of effective and exciting ideas, with a few highlights including distributing 140 heaters to hospitality retailers to encourage outdoor dining, and the installation of festive lighting in Melbourne St, O’Connell St and Hutt St to welcome our community back into the city.
These are just a small number of ideas implemented so far, with many more completed or still to come over the coming months. Make sure you don't miss the great initiatives that are happening now, including:
Please keep an eye on our website and Facebook page to keep up to date with all our Recover + Reimagine initiatives.
Once again, we thank you for your invaluable contribution in helping our wonderful city to not only recover, but to also reimagine what’s possible!
We invite you to share your ideas. You can use words, an image or both.
To help us understand how you use the city, please include at the end of your idea any of the following hashtags which apply to you:
| #live | #businessowner | #work | #study | #play | #shop | #tourist |
Finish the Vic Square/Tarntanyangga upgrade including the road realignment (square the square), Kaurna centre, and gardens.
Bright, cheerful decals on the footpaths, especially near traffic intersections, bus stops etc to help with social distancing
Hopefully there will be a new plan for Aquatic Centre upgrade that is good one for everyone
To avoid the propagation of the COVID-19 it is necessary to avoid the use of touch screens shared by people, as the government did with the button of the traffic lights(they are not been in use at this period), so I am developing the communication of the process of changing cans and bottles at the collection depots to a smartphone App, where just the user will touch their own screen, not sharing it with other people. Users can download an app (iOS and Android) enabling them access to a personal account to sell their containers (plastic and glass bottle and aluminum cans) depositing them into smart bins. These smart bins have an inbuilt system of sorting the material and sending a notification when they are full and ready for collection. The benefits of implementing a system of smart bins operating as vending machines in public and private places. Increases the efficiency of the collection, sorting recycling materials, the participation of the community in recycling, creating an additional source of profit, proposing zero cost to the partner in the installation of the smart bin, and collection of the recycling materials collected. The smart bin will have an electronic locker system that will switch the open/close state by user or collection app command. Benefits to the partners (public and private companies): - Zero cost in the acquisition and installation of the smart bin to the Council; - The collection of the recycling materials will be completed by an accredited person (companies) with no cost to the Council; - Security: the smart bins will only open after the user scans the QRcode on the bin, Barcode on the container, and a historic log will also be recorded; - Cleaning, organisation, and security; - Scalable system. Benefits to the community: - People will have more locations (public bins on sidewalks) to deposit their containers and receive 10 cents (improving the circular economy - monetary compensation of the recycling container program); - Clean and security spaces closed to bins; - The actual systems are based on Screens (IHM – interface human-machine) which the users need to touch a share screen, very harmful to spread COVID-19; - The proposal system is based in Application on the users' smartphone, which is cheaper, practical, and safer (does not use sharing touch screen, avoiding the propagation of COVID-19) compared to the actual systems.
work with City high schools and Unis to create pop-up art galleries or small business opportunities for students. Costs would involve rental, utilities and insurances but school / Uni could provide students to develop idea and staff the venture. Use of empty spaces would provide increased vibrancy and visitors to sites which are currently underutilised.
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| E.Norton@cityofadelaide.com.au |
