Titel video: Video Documentary Reigersbos Retrofit
Makers: Sybren Allan, Luisa Donado Moreno en Floris van Willigen
De onderzoeksresultaten zijn hier te vinden.
This is the collection of the student Living Lab Project of Healthy Urban Living. This is a project for the Living Lab course of the Msc MADE.
As cities are continuing to densify and include more functions, ‘healthy urban living' (HUL) is currently a trending topic and will be increasingly in the future. HUL is about creating clean, safe, comfortable, sustainable, and wealthy living environments, where people live together socially, independently, and healthy. Currently, in the Netherlands, several parties are developing a dashboard that monitors HUL, to help cities and their local policymakers, urban planners, or project developers in decision-making processes. Monitoring HUL could help these decision-makers in targeting specific points of attention in an area and can contribute to better site-specific designs. Therefore, monitoring HUL can improve living urban environments in such a way that it contributes to people’s health. The Data Knowledge Hub on HUL (DKH GSL) initiated this living lab to gain more knowledge on the monitoring of HUL. The DKH (DKH GSL) is an independent and open source network initiated by a total of 12 parties, both public and private actors. The parties strive to create solutions for healthy urban living environments. This living lab took place in the Kolenkitbuurt in Amsterdam.
Absorbing carbon dioxide from the air and storing it for decades, wood is a key material in the transition towards low carbon economy and is therefore highly valuable. Moreover, urban wood that comes from the trees standing in public places has social value. It represents local heritage, and holds stories and memories from communities. That is why the City of Amsterdam has recently established an auction system for the collection and distribution of this precious material, to provide everyone with equal access to urban wood. Nevertheless, as the City has adopted the goal of being circular by 2050, this new system of urban wood distribution should be structured around the circular economy. On this basis, the Circular Urban Wood Living Lab helps the City explore how to achieve circularity in urban wood flow in Amsterdam.
Project members: Melih Fırat Ayaz, Sam Amin and Yannich Schrik.
This collection contains the outcomes of the Flat Roof Revolution living lab project in the form of two booklets and a pamflet. This project was started to show the potential of rooftops to create more liveable cities. Using rooftop space can be an answer to current issues such as climate change, housing shortage and the energy transition. When facing these challenges rooftops are not taken into account sufficiently, even though the Netherlands has over 600 km2 of flat rooftop space available.
Studenten van de opleiding MADE verrichten onderzoek naar het ontwikkelen van co-creatie sessies voor betrokken partijen van de renovatie van woningen in Reigersbos. Ter introductie van hun onderzoek hebben zij een filmpje gemaakt. Deze is hieronder te zien.
Titel video: Video Documentary Reigersbos Retrofit
Makers: Sybren Allan, Luisa Donado Moreno en Floris van Willigen
De onderzoeksresultaten zijn hier te vinden.
Over a decade ago, the homeowners in Reigersbos decided that serious work needed to be done to replace the facade of their homes. The quality of the facade was low, residents suffered from leakages and ice on the walls in the winter. The owners associations (VvE's) initiated the Reigersbos facade project and involved the !WOON foundation and the Municipality of Amsterdam in the process. These groups work together in a horizontal network, which also includes the social housing association Stadgenoot. However, there are many challenges that complicate the process. It is in this context that this Living Lab takes place. Through co-creation sessions we worked on a manual to help those involved in the collaboration, both by reflecting and looking ahead in a roadmap. The co-creation sessions should lead to more mutual understanding between the stakeholders.
Authors: Luisa Donado Moreno, Sybren Allan, Floris van Willigen
A Living Lab project executed as part of the MADE Master at AMS Institute. The project revolved around the bio-composite Re-Plex, which is a 100% waste-based material that is still in the early stages of development. The goal for the Living Lab was to test the rate of biodegradation of the material and find suitable applications for it, with the intent of upscaling production. The project ended up creating a prototype for a structure that would aid in ecosystem restoration, by supporting young individuals of species when they are vulnerable until they reach adulthood, at which point the structure would degrade and the ecosystem would thrive again without human intermingeling.
Authors: Femke de Kock, Amanda Schepers, Roel Sipkema
Space is increasingly scarce and expensive in the urban landscape. There is an urgent need to regreen the city to combat multiple urban challenges such as the urban heat island effect, boost biodiversity, capture CO2 and improve water retention. This Living Lab project develops a contribution to solving these current socio-ecological challenges.
The challenges stated are complex in the sense that they touch upon different fields of expertise like ecology, urban planning, governance, and economy. Our case owner is MeerBomenNu (MBN); a campaign that was collectively initiated by Urgenda, Caring Farmers and Stichting MEERGroen. Their method revolves around transplanting saplings to locations where additional green is needed or desired instead of wasting them. To contribute to this we developed a product that helps with locating target areas where saplings can or should be planted. Therefore, our product consists of four steps; a climate indicator list, data action models, a tree species list and guidelines for planting trees in the appointed area. This report includes the meandering process of the creation of the product, further discussions on the direction of attaining this product, its contribution to the ecological challenges and how it is embedded in current urban greening schemes.
Through applying these various lenses and steps we were able to formulate a replicable product that can be utilised by Urgenda, municipalities and other organisations to ensure socio-ecological sustainability into the future.
Authors: Henriette Hugenholtz, Alexander Brown, Daan Helmerhorst
Wat zijn de mogelijkheden voor het huisvesten van de groeiende groep economisch daklozen in Amsterdam? Dat is een vraag die daklozenorganisatie De Regenboog Groep bezig houdt. In dit onderzoek hebben wij met een Living Lab aanpak de mogelijkheden met leegstaande ruimte in de stad onderzocht voor het tijdelijk huisvesten van deze mensen. Een mooie mogelijkheid om het leven van een economisch dakloze weer op de rit te krijgen met de stabiliteit en rust van een huis en maatschappelijke begeleiding vanuit De Regenboog Groep.
Authors: Malika van de Weerd, Lisa Pleijt, Anouk Haamans, Marie Geeraedts
A project about implementing Piezoelectric materials into infrastructure to generate sustainable energy. The project is focused on installation of Piezo train tracks in Amsterdam. Piezoelectric materials have a huge potential to overcome shortcomings concerning renewable energy supply. Although there is relatively pristine academic literature and research on this technology, we have found some promising experiments providing data and information. The basic principle of this tool is to harvest electricity from vibration created by mechanical pressure. When we place piezo ceramics or crystals such as quartz, lead or titanate between two metals and apply pressure on these elements, a vibration will be created, resulting in electric charge collected by the metals.
This is a Living Lab case-study of the bubble barrier in Westerdock.
Living Lab Project together with The Great Bubble Barrier designed to combat plastic pollution. During the Living Lab project, we studied the oxygenation provided by the bubble curtain and its positive effects on Amsterdam canals.
IT'S ALL ABOUT BUBBLES
One bubble, two bubbles and many thousands of bubbles!
Bubble curtains provide aeration which is known to be a very efficient way to transfer oxygen to water. Balanced level of oxygen is an indicator of healthy water quality which is beneficial for human health, aquatic life and socio-economic progress of a society.
In this report, a Living Lab approach is used to formulate guidelines for the implementation of a circular drinking cup system in ARTIS, the Amsterdam Royal Zoo. Currently, ARTIS copes with a significant residual waste stream that should be reduced to less than 5% in 2030 conform the new National and European regulations. The Netherlands strives to have a fully circular economy by 2050, in which all product and material cycles have been closed. ARTIS aims to follow these ambitions and puts a focus on drinking cups as being a starting point for the transition towards a more circular economy in the park.
Authors: Elsemieke Koole, Sarah Van de Velde, Laureen Peeraer
In this design an energetically poor performing residential building block from the 60's was transformed into a multifunctional building. The new building includes dwellings and new functions, with a zero energy performance. The emphasis of this project lies on a fully integrated climate concept that will be validated and quantified on its energy performance. Within one year, the building needs to compensate for the energy used during its creation. It also needs to produce enough energy to reimburse the user-related energy and the material related energy/carbon.
Voor de Gemeente Amsterdam is onderzoek gedaan naar het betrekken van bewoners bij kademuur renovaties. Een kademuurrenovatie heeft een grote impact op een buurt. Daarom is het van groot belang om bewoners te betrekken bij het gehele proces van renovatie. Voor dit onderzoek zijn twee sessies georganiseerd om op zoek te gaan naar nieuwe creatieve manieren van het betrekken van bewoners bij dit proces. Tijdens de sessies waren bewoners en ambtenaren van het PBK (omgevingsmanagers en communicatie adviseurs) aanwezig. De uitkomst is een adviesrapport met verschillende handvaten waarmee het PBK bewoners beter kan betrekken bij het hele proces van de kademuur renovatie.
Auteurs: Loeki den Uijl, Frederique Huls, Sara Bleeker
Several conclusions can be drawn when juxtaposing the theory about Living Labs and knowledge valorisation with the empirical study of real examples and that was the main goal of this thesis research. Even though Living Labs in the academic context are a young phenomenon and the number of examined cases are limited, this thesis has aimed to outline the main characteristics that define them and discuss their valorisation capabilities.
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Author: Ioannidis Ioannis
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Living labs represent an approach for developing innovative products in a real-life context by involving public institutions, private actors, and users as active participants in co-creation. Even though living labs are becoming more and more popular, there are still aspects about them which have been understudied. The academic literature lacks in-depth analyses of living lab participants, as well as guidelines for developing and managing such endeavors. Therefore, as a preliminary step of this research, a pilot study was performed for investigating challenges faced by living labs, and to which of the four components of the 4-E Framework these related. Through 20 interviews, this revealed that 82% of the challenges mentioned were rooted in the Participants element. Conclusively, the need to focus on this element was confirmed.
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Author: Daniel Buzatu