The Neighbourhood Art Centre

For my graduation project I am designing the Neighbourhood Art Centre, which is about implementing a museum in its immediate environment and becoming part of the neighbourhood life by engaging the community to come and be an active role in the museum organization. This paper will be about how the museum of today can be designed to engage the...

Between consultation and collaboration: Self-reported objectives for 25 web-based geoparticipation projects in urban planning

Web-based participatory mapping technologies are being increasingly harnessed by local governments to crowdsource local knowledge and engage the public in urban planning policies as a means of increasing the transparency and legitimacy of planning processes and decisions. We refer to these technologies as “geoparticipation”. Current...

Co-creation, control or compliance? How Dutch community engagement professionals view their work

Most literature on community engagement (CE) focuses on why and how local communities respond to energy projects or technologies. There has been very limited attention to project developers and the way they shape CE in the literature. We address this gap by focusing on the work of professionals active within or for energy companies, who are...

Fostering Social Interaction Between Heterogeneous Groups: Creating an ICT Solution for International Students in Delft

The city of Delft in the Netherlands has an international population of students attending TU Delft. This heterogeneous population is composed of several nationalities. In heterogeneity, participation is difficult to achieve. This case is no different with limited interaction among international students of these groups and the rest of students....

The reciprocity of data integration in disaster risk analysis

Humanitarian organizations are increasingly challenged by the amount of data available to drive their decisions. Useful data can come from many sources, exists in different formats, and merging it into a basis for analysis and planning often exceeds organizations’ capacities and resources. At the same time, affected communities’ participation in...

Methodology for participatory GIS risk mapping and Citizen Science for Solotvyno Salt Mines

The Horizon 2020 interim evaluation (2017) indicates a steep increase in citizen engagement in European Union Citizen Science (CS) projects, with less than 1% in budgetary terms and minimal influence. Research findings attribute weak CS influence to the restriction of citizen actions to data collection, with minimal or no engagement in co...