How Do We Co-Create at Woven City?
Co-creation: the art of collaborative product development between innovators and key audiences throughout the innovation cycle to explore and refine human-centered solutions for common societal challenges.
Woven City embraces co-creation, bringing together a diverse community of people with a shared passion for the future of mobility. While product development efforts are typically limited to ideating and testing in a lab or office-like setting, we're able to seamlessly integrate this process into daily life at Woven City.
Woven City empowers Inventors with its city-like test course designed to nurture invention and accelerate development. This environment frees Inventors from the limitations of conventional innovation methods by seeing how their products and services integrate into day-to-day life. With opportunities for continuous, high-quality insights at any point of the product development cycle, Inventors can expand their knowledge of how these innovations will address current mobility challenges on a greater scale. To further these efforts, Woven City offers Inventors access to development support services known as Woven Inventor Garage.
The residents and visitors, known as Weavers, have the rare chance to use and interact with innovative products and services, providing Inventors with real-time feedback leading to the advancement of mobility technologies for people, goods, information and energy. There are many ways for Weavers to be involved in the co-creation process with various levels of participation for them to choose from. Whether it’s passive involvement through daily usage or actively providing feedback, Weavers have the exclusive opportunity to experience the future of mobility in action.
Woven Inventor Garage
The Inventors of Woven City are offered access to Woven Inventor Garage, Toyota’s co-creation service utilizing cutting-edge technologies to support the product development cycle from exploration to experimentation to evaluation. One such service is the Digital Twin, which provides a virtual simulation of Woven City for Inventors to model scenarios and conduct testing of products and services on a digital platform.
A Sneak Peek into Woven City’s Initiatives
Mobility of Goods & People:
Platform for Automated Driving Services
Woven City is serving as a testing ground for the automated transport of people and goods. One such technology is Toyota’s e-Palette with potential use cases like bus services and mobile vending retailers. Inventors are utilizing the platform of Woven City to expand and refine the futuristic applications of automated driving services to ensure safe and effective deployments on a grander scale.
Mobility of Goods: Smart Logistics
By linking smartphone applications with delivery robots, Inventors at Woven City are exploring ways to automate the transportation of goods for residents. Iterative testing in this city-like environment and the introduction of high-value services, such as dry cleaning and storage, offers the elimination of unnecessary travel while increasing quality time for what matters most, like spending time with loved ones.
Mobility of Information:
Next-Gen Remote Communications
Information mobility technologies being developed at Woven City is aiming for new avenues that will foster emotional connection between individuals despite being physically apart. These technologies will improve the quality of screen time leading to a future of enhanced opportunities for individual growth and social connections.