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Rhythm Research
The urban challenge we address in this research is to enhance the sense of security in a specific neighbourhood by stimulating social cohesion through the creation of shared rhythms. There are many ways for analysing rhythms. From medical examinations of breath, to identifying the tides in the sea, to analysing rhythms in traffic or electricity use. Rhythm is sensed and analysed in many ways.
This research aims to identify of methods of analyses of rhythms, intervention in rhythms and it wants to formulate how rhythm analyses is a new resource for urban policymaking. -
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Promovendi Designing Urban Experience (DUE)
In the DUE research group each of the PhD candidates has a professional career before and during engaging with the PhD research. The professional experience is considered to be an asset in this research context allowing a specific interaction between theoretical, experimental and professional knowledge and skills. Because of this interaction scientific rigour is matched with societal impact all along.
Each DUE PhD candidate has a second supervisor that comes form within the AISSR, next to prof. dr. Caroline Nevejan. Candidates work with each supervisor individually and a few times per year both supervisors meet together with the candidate to streamline the research.
Every year the so called DUE PhD club has a writing retreat in which the external PhD candidates have time to deeply reflect on their work and engage with each others research as well. Through the year there are occasional online meetings of the DUE PhD club in the evening. -
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Trust Research
In 2007, Nevejan obtained his PhD with the thesis Presence and the Design of Trust at the University of Amsterdam. Since then, this research has continued at Delft University of Technology and in recent years in the municipality of Amsterdam.
In this collection you will find the complete dissertation 'Presence and the Design of Trust, in which Nevejan introduces the YUPTA framework. This framework helps to better understand how we make choices in situations where it is unclear whether or not we can trust them. This framework is further explained and made manageable in the essay 'Shaping Trust'. This framework is currently used by the municipality of Amsterdam to design trust in the city. To learn more about the latter you can view the collection 'Designing Trust'.
*Acronym for Being with You in Time, Place and Action. -
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City Science in Europe
Many key societal challenges in Europe are intrinsically urban. Science and Innovation can help to address these challenges. But research in the city also has an unique charakter. Together with Chief Science Officers of different cities in Europe, with scientists and artists form a variety of countries, we explore methologies and resaerch designs for doing research in cities.
We do this in de context of the EU Commission and of the 17th Architecture Exhibition of La Biennalew di Venezia. -
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Oratie 'Urban reflections' - Caroline Nevejan
Sharing certain rhythms is a prerequisite for trust between residents and visitors of the city. Shared rhythms create a space in which interaction can flourish. The experience of the city is partly determined by how people witness each other, reflect on what is happening and jointly author the decision-making about a street, a company or organization. Design can shape such processes, is polyphonic and inclusive, and therefore plays a new major role in the city, says Caroline Nevejan in her inaugural lecture.
Cities become complex systems. Design – understood as the design of space, time and interaction – plays a major role in this. Because the new technologies that structure our presence and participation mean that we 'experience' each other in new ways, the interaction between trust and truth is also shifting. Sharing rhythm seems essential to deepen trust between city and neighborhood residents, who often do not know each other. After all, rhythm is how diverse patterns understand each other and flow together. Rhythm is also crucial for our sensory perception and our ability to communicate, while design of technology rarely takes this into account.
In her inaugural lecture, Nevejan advocates an approach and design of the urban experience as a shared reflection on the many sensations and emotions that a city offers. Such shared reflection, such 'co-authoring of an outcome' or such 'joint authorship of decision-making', is necessary, and in turn nourishes the diversity that cities - and their inhabitants - need to promote their well-being. It is unclear how technology can contribute to such a reflection. Now that artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining momentum and 'thinking' robots seem to be near, the human ability to achieve joint reflection needs to reposition itself.
In her conclusion, Nevejan concludes that if networking cities want to contribute to well-being and survival, they must be reflective, diverse and require rhythm. If such cities are to contribute to shared authorship of decision-making in every street, neighborhood, district and enterprise, they must develop and design processes of diverse involvement for the management of the city.
Mrs. Prof. Dr. C.I.M. Nevejan, professor by special appointment of Designing Urban Experience: Urban Reflection.
Source: UvA website
The film recording of the inaugural lecture can be viewed via this link to the UvA website.