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Kick-Off DRSR
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Article
DRSR Kick-off, Introductie door Bas van Sprew en Caroline Nevejan
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DRSR Kick-Off | Presentatie Groep 1
+ How can Amstel III become an area where it is nice for the people to live?
+ How can Amstel III transition into being a living space from transit or work-only area?
+ How can it be possible to make a good connection between Amstel III and the rest of Zuidoost?Currently Amstel III is a business district with offices, the academic hospital, large companies such as Tesla, Porsche, Ikea, the Ajax Stadium, the Ziggo Dome and so on. In the next 10 years, 15.000 apartments will be built in the area. This draws our attention based on the liveability of the area (question one) and the connection with the rest of Zuidoost (question two).
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DRSR Kick-Off | Presentatie Groep 2
Suggested issues: Garbage/waste (afval), Amsterdamse Poort, children (4-12 years) and employment opportunities (werkgelegenheid)
Amsterdamse Poort: Amsterdamse Poort is a shopping and living area at the center of Zuidoost. The ground floor consists of a boulevard type of planning where shops, horeca and offices are distributed, and the apartments can be found on top of the shops. This area is not accessible by cars or by bikes; the roads and facilities for these two are located around the area. The outside spaces include sitting areas, while in-between the indoor locations there are large galleries full of smaller shops.
There are many issues that can be reported at this area, from ‘groepsmannen’ (groups of men hanging out in the public space who are reported to give nuisance to passers by, however, the specific reasons for this nuisance are not clear), maintenance (handhaving) of garbage, or cleaning in general.
All these features create the liveability (leefbaarheid) issue for Amsterdamse Poort; for example, since there are many shops around which all close around the same time, the passers by don’t feel safe at night. Or, another example. the frequent garbaging is related to sense of ownership around the public spaces. It is suggested in this brainstorm to do a portrait of this area, to explore better what the real issue is.
Employment opportunities: It is reported that a good match between the job candidates and the employers is missing at the moment. The municipality invests a lot to bring the candidates job opportunities to a higher level by providing courses, eduction and financial support. However, although these candidates become qualified enough to be hired by the job market (especially by companies in Zuidoost), they are not considered in available positions. So the issue becomes that the corporate life (bedrijfsleven) does not meet the needs of the people.
Rhythm of the children of 4-12 years old in relation to the rhythm of their parents: By looking at the rhythm, the lifestyle of the children can be better explored. There are many services offered by the municipality for the children and their parents to attend. Nevertheless, there is still the difficulty of gathering information about what happens at home; at what time do the children arrive home, who is there to be with them at home, what they eat for dinner, etc. This information can lead to a better understanding of the vulnerable youth groups.
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DRSR Kick-Off | Presentatie Groep 3
Discussed issues: services for children and the youth, grouping men (groupsmannen), not functional public spaces, loneliness of seniors (+55 years), youth and the LGBTI+ community.
Services for children and the youth: There are many opinions that the services provided by the municipality for the younger people are not sufficient. It is suggested to understand this issue better by looking at the daily rhythms of the children and youth; what do they do during their free time, where do they go, who are they? These daily rhythms can be compared to what is offered by the municipality to explore the match between requests and what is offered. Is it really true that the services are not enough?
Grouping men (groupsmannen): Who are these men, are they really a specific defined group? There are many complaints reported agains the grouping men, and it would be good to explore whether there are specific illegal activities occurring in these groups, or, whether this is a perception issue. Perhaps what appears are men grouped together from one side, but looking from another perspective can give more insight to what is happening.
Not functional public spaces: Many public spaces are built around a ‘boulevard’ style, but it can also be suggested that this style causes problems. It can only be arrived by foot, making it hard to travel by bike, or to park cars nearby. Also trash is a big issue in the public spaces, people don’t seem to take care well of these areas. Same issues are suggested for semi-private areas such as galleries inside the shopping areas and stair cases of the housing buildings.
Loneliness of seniors (+55 years), youth and the LGBTI+ community: It is reported that many residents define themselves as lonely, especially the vulnerable age groups and communities. In order to further understand this issue, the first question can be about defining loneliness, and to get insights from the different groups that suffer from it. Furthermore, it is suggested to further explore what is offered by the municipality; what are the facilities of children, young people and older generation, and whether they are sufficient or not.
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DRSR Kick-Off | Presentatie Groep 4
Issues about small children (9 months to 2 years old) and their parents, parent involvement, public space, mental health and informal care of seniors (+55), services for poverty and education in relation to families and vulnerable youth.
Small children (9 months to 2 years old) and their parents: The municipality has very limited information on very young children and their relationship with their parents. The Amsterdamse aanpak gezond gewicht (Amsterdam approach to healthy weight) suggests a healthy life style for both the parents and their children; if the parents eat healthy and do healthy activities, so will their children. How can the rhythm of the parents influence the children to have a healthy lifestyle?
Parent involvement: The parents participate less and less to the education life of their children. They do not attend the parent-teacher meetings or other important meetings that they should participate as parent. These events are important to contribute to the development of the children. On the other hand, it is observed that they are more involved in the activities such as theater plays or sports. It is suggested to explore the rhythm of the parents and their children, in order to understand what makes them attend to certain services and not the others.
Public space: At the Bijlmerplein there are many different activities and it becomes the meeting point of different groups, such as the grouping men (groepsmannen). The daily rhythms are very different than the nigh rhythms. What is the rhythm of the people who meet at the square in relation to the overall rhythm of the square?
Mental health and informal care of seniors (+55): The municipality knows that there are many caregivers in Zuidoost but they do not reach them sufficiently. There are also many services that are being developed for them, but are not being used. It would be nice to understand the rhythm of the group that makes use of informal and mental care, in order to reach these people.
Services for poverty and education in relation to families: Exploring the rhythm of the services in relation to the rhythms of families, to understand which services work and are actively used and which don’t.
Vulnerable youth: There are many young people in Zuidoost which are seen as vulnerable by the municipality. The vulnerable youth come from a non-conventional family style, with many times low-income parents, mental health or (drug) abuse issues in the family. Or simply, the parents are not much involved in the lives of their children. These young people are also very likely to leave school at an early age and get involved in neighbourhood criminality. What can be the possibilities to stop this from happening? What are the rhythms of the vulnerable youth at the moment?
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Case 1: Nuisance in the Public Space
+ What is (overlast) nuisance at the public space?
+ When is a rhythm (or the rhythm of groups) experienced as too much or wrong?Social:
We discussed 2 issues related with public space; functioning of the public space and taking care of the public space.
The first question deals with who is at the space, what happens at the space and what the functions are. The second issue questions how the public spaces in Zuidoost are being taken care of as cleaning, garbage and maintenance (handhaving).
This case will also include the study of behaviour in public space in relation to ownership in public space. The freedom to act and actual ownership will be components of this study. With the idea that if a person feels that the space is theirs, they will be more tended to take care of it. Another aspect of this study is to raise awareness of different behaviour in public space (like the groepsmannen, in relation to passers by).
Data:
There is already an API for which trash is there and about the trash collections. These can be looked at as the first step.
The problem can be reframed as the public space not being used in the intended function.
Rhythm in the sense of data is concerned about two types of distributions; time distribution and location distribution. An example data question is, 'How much thrash is dumped in certain areas of the city and what time patterns can be observed in the way people generate thrash?.
Interesting datasets:
- Lighting of the public space, energy data.
- Maintenance data.
- Meldingen Openbare Ruimte Amsterdam (MORA)
- Afval container API
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Case 2: Poverty, Work and Unemployment
This issue explores the mismatch between request and service in poverty and work.
During our conversation, it came out that there are two different layers to this problem:
- Layer 1: According to the municipality, the poverty group consists of people who don’t have jobs, education and life opportunities. There are many services provided to this group, but these services are not being used by them. This problem occurs in a large scale in the whole city.
- Layer 2: The people who were part of the poverty group and used the services given by the municipality, and thanks to that received education are not being recognised by potential work givers. It is estimated that the reason to this is because companies have a specific expectation to what their employees should look like and behave.
Considering these two layers, the questions that arise are:
- Are the services at the municipality provides sufficient?
- Why do the companies prefer to hire employees outside of Zuidoost?
It is also suggested that the potential in Zuidoost is being recognised by the large companies, however, they prefer to look for easier opportunities; hiring an employee directly is easier than consulting an employment agency (uitzendingbureau). This can be a ‘just-in-time’ problem.
This problem has to be looked into from dimension and location perspective. It can be interesting to compare where the employer and the employee are, or the work/not work to location. Also interesting to explore the role of Zuidoost district in the creation of the problem.
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Case 3: Services for Children and Parents
The municipality reports 3 issues in relation to vulnerable youth groups between 10-15 years old. Their daily rhythms and lifestyle (1), the involvement of their parents in their daily life and school life (2) and the services that are provided to both children and their parents by the municipality (3).
It is suggested that these three issues are not aligned at the moment:
- We do not have precise information on what the children do during the day and whether they live a healthy lifestyle at home (in relation to aanpak gezondgewicht);
- It is not clear why the parents are not involved in the formal activities of the school, such as the parent teacher meetings, while they are more involved in informal activities like culture and sports;
- Finally, although there are many opinions about the services (voorzieningen) provided for the youth (like sports and culture), the municipality does not receive sufficient feedback on whether the provided services for the youth are sufficient or insufficient.
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Case 4: Loneliness of the seniors, youth and the LGBTI+ community (Eenzaamheid van senioren, jongeren en LGBTI+)
This case explores informal care (mantel zorg) and mental health in complex situations and in vulnerable groups. The underlying issue is loneliness amongst these groups, which are two subjects that are hard to directly measure and document; loneliness and who is part of these communities.
In this case, the issue of loneliness will be looked at from the rhythm perspective. In fact, mental care, informal care (like care homes for the elderly) as well as loneliness are very much rhythm based; if a person does not have many means to go out, and when they do, they don’t find anyone nearby to share any exchange, it is very likely that they might be getting lonelier.
From the data perspective, although these issues are hard to measure and are sensitive due to their private nature, OIS has datasets on eenzaamheid. Also checking the veiligheidsmonitor and leefbaarheidsmonitor may provide insight on this issue.