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Architects and ‘Architecture without architects’: Modernization of Iranian housing and the birth of a new urban form Narmak (Tehran, 1952).

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De TWEXX methode, een ontwikkelingsgericht participatiemodel

In deze tekst wordt de TWEXX methode, ontwikkelt in de Enschedese wijk Twekkelerveld, geordend, beschreven, geanalyseerd en kritisch doorgelicht. De ondertitel ontwikkelingsgericht participatiemodel is niet voor niets gekozen. Het gaat in deze methode om participatie en ontwikkeling van mensen, sociale netwerken, organisaties en plannen en strategieen. En dat is geen geringe opgave. Het raamwerk van het model bestaat uit vijf samenhangende onderdelen. De Twexx methode is de invulling daarvan toegepast in Enschede. Het model is in principe overal toepasbaar wanneer de principes worden omgezet in maatwerk, gerelateerd aan de lokale context, de mogelijkheden en de ambities. Deze tekst is bedoeld om inzicht te verschaffen in de zoektocht naar een methodische aanpak van bewonersparticipatie binnen de dynamische wereld van het wijkgerichte werken. En vooral hoe, waar en op welke wijze bottom-up en top-down elkaar kunnen versterken.

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De TWEXX methode, een ontwikkelingsgericht participatiemodel

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Onze online platformen

Social media and sharing economy platforms do not only disrupt industries. They also bypass democratic institutions. That’s not without risk, because the dominant Silicon Valley based online platforms are designed to create shareholder value, not to strengthen society or democracy. Which is unfortunate, because online platforms – if designed to that purpose – can be uniquely power full tools for organising our networked society.In Amsterdam over 90 neighbourhood networks use online platforms for self organisation. This development accelerated from 2010 on. The networks aim at strengthening social ties and local initiatives and are increasingly involved in some way of democratic innovation. This study is a deep dive into this urban bottom-up-movement. It puts the phenomena of online neighbourhood platforms in a broader societal and economical context. It points at the importance of user owned platforms and data. And it draws conclusions on how society and specifically municipal management can bring this movement to a next level. Ultimately with the potential of growing into an alternative for the Silicon Valley owned online platform ecosystem.

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Outreachend besturen in tijden van transitie

Dit boek beschrijft hoe beleidsmedewerkers en bestuurders van gemeenten en non-profitorganisaties kunnen bijdragen aan een sociaal domein dat de krachten van mensen beter benut. Het thema is outreachend werken: het vergroten van de kansen op preventie, herstel, sociale stijging en zelfredzaamheid van specifieke groepen mensen in zorgwekkende omstandigheden. Het onderzoek beschrijft vijf beloftevolle outreachende praktijken met/voor mensen in kwetsbare omstandigheden. De auteurs beschrijven de transitie van systeem- naar leefwereld, van top-down naar bottom-up aansturing van de sociale sector, van deductief naar inductief leren en ontwikkelen.

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Outreachend besturen in tijden van transitie

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Outreachend werken bij dreigende huisuitzetting

In deze publicatie komen vijf ontwikkelingen aan de orde die kunnen bijdragen aan een betere hulpverlening aan zorgwekkende burgers: - de ontwikkeling van outreachend werken middels de Eropaf-methode. - boundary crossing, waarbij mensen uit verschillende disciplines, instellingen en zelfs sectoren van de samenleving samenwerken aan de ontwikkeling van nieuwe oplossingen. - Eigen kracht een ontwikkeling waarbij professionals nauwer gaan samenwerken met de sociale netwerken rond zorgwekkende burgers. - een innovatiestrategie die beter gebruik maakt van kennis en ervaringen van uitvoerende professionals (meer bottom-up en minder top-down). - een kennismethodiek waarin warme en koude praktijken van kennisontwikkeling met elkaar verbonden worden.

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Outreachend werken bij dreigende huisuitzetting

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Participatory experimentation with energy law: digging in a ‘regulatory sandbox’ for local energy initiatives in the Netherlands

To facilitate energy transition, in several countries regulators have devised ‘regulatory sandboxes’ to create a participatory experimentation environment for exploring revision of energy law. These sandboxes allow for a two-way regulatory dialogue between an experimenter and an approachable regulator to innovate regulation and enable new socio-technical arrangements. However, these experiments do not take place in a vacuum but need to be formulated and implemented in a multi-actor, polycentric decision-making system through collaboration with the regulator but also energy sector incumbents such as the distribution system operator. We are, therefore, exploring new roles and power division changes in the energy sector as a result of such a regulatory sandbox. We research the Dutch Energy Experimentation Decree (EED) that invites homeowners’ associations and energy cooperatives to propose projects prohibited by extant regulation. In order to localize, democratize and decentralize energy provision, local experimenters can, for instance, organise peer-to-peer supply and determine their own tariffs for energy transport. Theoretically, we rely on Ostrom’s concept of polycentricity to study the dynamics between actors involved in and engaging with the participatory experiments. Empirically, we examine 4 approved EED experiments through interviews and document analysis. Our conclusions focus on the potential and limitations of bottom-up, participatory innovation in a polycentric system. The most important lessons are that a more holistic approach to experimentation, inter-actor alignment, providing more incentives, and expert and financial support would benefit bottom-up participatory innovation.

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Periscope sketch workshop

The first two fases of the BUBO methode (Bottom Up Business Opportunities)

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Designing the perfect new European Bauhaus neighbourhood

The concept of Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments (SHAFE) emphasises the comprehensive person-centred experience as essential to promoting living environments. SHAFE takes an interdisciplinary approach, conceptualising complete and multidisciplinary solutions for an inclusive society. From this approach, we promote participation, health, and well-being experiences by finding the best possible combinations of social, physical, and digital solutions in the community. This initiative emerged bottom-up in Europe from the dream and conviction that innovation can improve health equity, foster caring communities, and sustainable development. Smart, adaptable, and inclusive solutions can promote and support independence and autonomy throughout the lifespan, regardless of age, gender, disabilities, cultural differences, and personal choices, as well as promote happier and fairer living places.

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Designing the perfect new European Bauhaus neighbourhood

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Beyond ICT4D

This research project aims to pick up where Incommunicado left off, to look past conferences organized in the West, the debates sponsored by western organizations, and to instead look through the lens of the individual end users on the ground. This project aims to embed itself amongst the people living at the ‘bottom of the ICT pyramid’ and to look at the same discussion from their perspective. It is this ‘other’ point of view that is too often missing in the ICT4D debate, otherwise a valuable voice that helps to put technologies, projects and organizations into their proper context.

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Architects and ‘Architecture without architects’: Modernization of Iranian housing and the birth of a new urban form Narmak (Tehran, 1952).