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Video Energie Lab Zuidoost
In deze video maak je kennis met het Energie Lab Zuidoost. We nemen je mee naar het ontstaan van dit initiatief, de vier verschillende labs en de bijbehorende onderzoeken. Belangrijke spelers binnen het Energie Lab Zuidoost delen hun ervaringen en vertellen over hun werk.
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#6 Progress through friction
Progress through Friction is the sixth edition of the magazine Bewogen Stad. In this issue we explore the productive nature of contradictions and conflicts from various projects. This time the authors pay special attention to the role of conflicts in complex collaborations, in experimental forms of governance and around learning and securing knowledge.
In this special issue we reflect on the downside of approaches oriented on rationality, consultation and consensus, based on the hypothesis that there is often too little attention to existing interests, power and struggle. The result is that some form of innovation sometimes takes place, but also that the effect is limited. Patterns, factors and actors that maintain the current situation are often insufficiently part of the innovation.
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Participation goals | Quick study
Organizing a participation process is not an end in itself. It is a means to achieve an underlying goal. What could these underlying goals be?
This quick study is limited to the goals of the initiator. However, the goal of the participants may be different from that of the initiator. This must be explicitly addressed in the participation process. If it becomes clear that the goal of the initiator is different from that of a participant, mutual expectations can become more realistic.
This quick study describes the possible goals of a participation process. This was used (scientific) literature. The goals are categorized as normative, instrumental and substantive. -
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In conversation or finished talking?
Full title: In conversation or finished talking? About the significance of conversations for the development of local participation processes.
In order to learn from participation processes in practice and, based on this, to contribute to improving them, this research focuses on the conversations between citizens and civil servants and their impact on participation processes. The central focus is on how different perspectives are dealt with in conversations and the meaning that participants attribute to them for the further course of a participation process. The impact of conversations is examined from the perspective of citizens. By examining the expectations and experiences of participating citizens, it emerges how the way in which different perspectives on an issue are dealt with in conversations contributes, in their experience, to finding solutions and support for this.Author: C.E. Bleijenberg (2021) - Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.
Drs. Blijenberg was also a guest in the Public Work Podcast. Listen to 'About the 'how', participating, dropping out and citizen consultations' on Spotify via the link below. -
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The importance of 'articulation power' when using experiential knowledge (lecture)
The stories of people with experiential knowledge should not only be told, but also heard. This requires 'articulation power', Tim 'S Jongers stated in his Participation Lecture on March 25, 2022. In a story that is as personal as it is erudite, he draws a bridge, with experiential knowledge as a deck, to improve municipal policy. The lecture was recorded and you can watch it again via the link below.
Tim 'S Jongers is director of the Wiardi Beckman Stichting. The Scientific Bureau for Social Democracy.
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Government/Citizen Ratio
What is the role of government in society? In recent decades, both society and the role of government in it have changed significantly. From a government that took the upper hand in creating public value by developing a welfare state and setting up a social security system. Towards a shift from government tasks to the market, think of the new public management. In recent years, however, the government has increasingly focused on a hands-on democracy, in which citizens and social associations are called upon to take over government tasks. And the government is 'only' one of the parties in a network.
This collection contains various studies that tell something about the (new) relationship between the government/municipality and citizens. How can this relationship be explained? Important concepts are trust, official expertise and government participation. -
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Scripties over Participatie
In deze collectie verzamelt de redactie van openresearch.amsterdam scripties met het thema participatie.
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Nanke Verloo - (Re)politicizing Participation
Democratization is high on Amsterdam’s political agenda. Various democratization projects were implemented that engage citizens in communal activities. Although highly valuable, the post-political nature of these projects shifts the attention away from more politically sensitive issues, favoring one type of participatory activity and citizenship over others. Protest and dissent seem to have no place in the democratization agenda. Post-political theory warns for a democratic deficit that gives rise to populism when policy making avoids ‘the political’. Although public officials have the intention to listen to citizens, their repertoire is restricted to highly regulated public meetings that provide limited space for dissent. When citizens protest outside predefined ‘governance’ arrangements, their acts are rarely understood as ‘participation’. This project seeks to (re)politicize participation. In close collaboration with public officials, citizens and politicians, I ethnographically studied how citizen participation in Amsterdam can be more inclusive to dissent and protest. The participation process around redevelopment in Entreegebied Gulden Winckel in Amsterdam West was the basis for policy advice to civil servants and reflection sessions with citizens, civil servants and political leaders to improve the quality of citizen participation in Amsterdam.
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Ontwikkelbuurten
In samenwerking met de gemeente Amsterdam organiseren we een langjarig actie-onderzoek rondom de Strategische Buurtonwikkeling. De vraag is hoe in deze gebiedsontwikkelingsprocessen burgerparticipatie gestalte krijgt - en hoe planprocessen daadwerkelijk bijdragen aan de structurele versterking van de leefomgeving in Zuidoost, Nieuw-West en Noord.
De komende jaren wordt er volop gebouwd in Amsterdam om aan de exploderende vraag naar betaalbare woningen te voldoen. Deels wordt gebouwd op plekken waar nu nog geen mensen wonen. Met de ontwikkelbuurten verschuift de focus echter ook naar de bouwopgaven in de buurten waar nu al mensen wonen en werken, zoals in Noord, Nieuw West en Zuidoost. Dat zijn vaak ook de buurten waar, wat gebouwen en openbare ruimte betreft, sprake is van enig achterstallig onderhoud en waar de sociale problemen naar verhouding groot zijn.
Juist in deze buurten moeten investeringen in het fysieke domein worden gekoppeld aan aan de lokale maatschappelijke, economische en ecologische opgaven. Dus wat zijn de goede manieren zijn om deze “harde” investeringen te koppelen aan “zachte”? En hoe kan het planproces van de gemeente daadwerkelijk tot de versterking van de leefomgeving leiden, voor alle bewoners? Dit vergt hernieuwde afstemming tussen diverse partijen, zorgvuldige en verbindende participatie en het vinden van synergie tussen sectoren, mensen en oplossingen.
Onze rol spitst zich toe op:
- Het volgen en reflecteren op het planvormingsproces en de wijze waarop participatie hierbinnen een producerende rol krijgt;
- Het verrijken van het deze planprocessen gedurende de uitvoering;
- En het organiseren van experimenten om de kansen op synergie te verkennen, ontdekken en zichtbaar te maken.
Op deze manier dragen we als maatschappelijke partner aan het structureel versterken van de leefomgeving van deze buurten en haar bewoners.
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'Participatie' in Staat van de stad 2019
De rapportage, De Staat van de Stad Amsterdam 2019, beschrijft hoe de stad ervoor staat op tal van terreinen. Deze collectie bevat de hoofdstukken met betrekking tot de politieke en maatschappelijke participatie.
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Participatie met oog voor verschil
‘Hoe kunnen we bewoners het best bij ons project betrekken?’
In dit essay gaan we in op de vraag waarom participatie vaak zo lastig is en wat ervoor nodig is om tot succesvolle aanpakken te komen. Aan de hand van diverse praktijkvoorbeelden en reflecties op de wetenschappelijke literatuur, laten we zien waarom het belangrijk is dat er voor een goede participatievorm wordt gekozen, waarom in sommige gevallen wordt besloten om geen participatieproces te starten, waarom sommige groepen niet willen en/of kunnen participeren en waarom het lastig is om praktijkervaringen te herhalen. De praktijkvoorbeelden zijn, vanwege het onderzoeksthema van onze onderzoeksgroep, gericht op participatie in de energietransitie, maar de onderliggende processen zijn ook van toepassing op andere participatievraagstukken, zoals het herinrichten van openbare ruimtes.Auteurs: Lynette Germes (Promovenda bij de Hanzehogeschool Groningen) & Kathelijne Bouw (Onderzoeker bij de Hanzehogeschool Groningen) -
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The game of participation in Amsterdam East: an alternative to the neoliberal or a neoliberal alternative
With a point of departure in a Bourdieusian framework, the chapter studies dynamics between participatory policymaking and the citizenry’s political agency in a gentrifying neighborhood in Amsterdam East. The analysis shows that gentrifiers, through their community building efforts and resourcefulness, are capable of creating political opportunities for the citizenry to become co-producers in the field of local policy implementation; this enabled social mobility and a creation of a civic democratic culture. At the same time, this alternative field of participation is not immune to reproducing effects related to gentrification and voluntarism.
Kovács Z., Smets P., Ghorashi H. (2019) The Game of Participation in Amsterdam East: An Alternative to the Neoliberal or a Neoliberal Alternative?. In: Fisker J., Chiappini L., Pugalis L., Bruzzese A. (eds) Enabling Urban Alternatives. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.