Wat gebeurt er eigenlijk in het contact tussen professional en Amsterdammer als het gesprek via een LEGO-bouwwerk, een voetbalveldje, een Netwerkcirkel over emoties gaat? Welke waarde schuilt er in deze creatieve gespreksvormen, los van hun speelse uiterlijk? En wat leren ze ons over wat een goed gesprek …

Binnen het project Verbeelding in Transities ontwikkelden Werk, Participatie en Inkomen (WPI) van de gemeente Amsterdam en vier hogescholen samen een reeks creatieve gespreksvormen. Maar hoe verhouden zulke tastbare gespreksvormen zich tot de abstracte begrippen ‘verbeelding’ en ‘transitie’ binnen het …

Architects, designers and artists are key players in helping people understand tomorrow’s energy systems. They bring expertise and awareness of the complex processes behind designing the energy transition which involves technology, space, people, money and time. Working at different levels, they understand …

As urban environments increasingly adopt automated technologies for municipal enforcement, this paper interrogates the erosion of human judgment, discretion, and interaction in public space governance. Drawing on participatory design workshops within the “Human Values for Smarter Cities” project, the …

In 2024, the Civic Interaction Design research group, in collaboration with the Centre of Expertise Economic Transformation (CET), organized a research residency titled “What happens when the Civic Economy meets the Protocol Economy?” This initiative, led by researcher, curator, and technology strategist …

Research on the spatial variation in ‘populist’ and ‘anti-establishment’ voting focuses on the role of ‘left behind places’, where these parties are particularly successful in regions that have been left behind economically or culturally. Applying this perspective to the German case, this paper examines …

African citizens are increasingly being surveilled, profiled, and targeted online in ways that violate their rights. African governments frequently use pandemic or terrorism-related security risks to grant themselves additional surveillance rights and significantly increase their collection of monitoring apparatus …