Social-ecological transformation in Asian cities

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) has had a significant presence in Asia for years, and wanted to create a microsite where its research outputs and resources could be consolidated. More importantly, it also wanted to produce an open tool that provided the latest facts and figures on the topic of sustainable cities, and the state of social and ecological development of key Asian cities.

A key initiative of FES Asia was to promote the concept of a social-ecological transformation of cities, and to do so in an engaging medium and manner with the public. It needed a page to explain this concept, and what this means in specific Asian contexts in reality.

FES has various offices across Asia that engage in meaningful ground and research work. It hoped to bring together all of this material, consolidating all of its research outputs in one space, promoting knowledge management and facilitating collaboration across its offices and among its partners.

We created a three-page microsite, with a map-based landing page. On the landing page, users are invited to explore the different sustainable Asian cities, where they can better understand each city’s challenges, and learn facts and figures concerning mobility, urbanisation, income, and climate change. We also designed two additional pages to elaborate on the concept in detail, spotlighting specific examples and scenarios, and core principles governing their proposed solutions.