On Saturday the 2nd of July, students and researchers of the NoorderRuimte Research Center organized a participatory event, in collaboration with the local citizen initiative Duurzaam Oosterpark. They exchanged information with local citizens about the main housing types in the district and how they …

Designed, organized and facilitated a co-creation (online) event with the members of the local citizen initiative "GroeneBruggenBouwers" of Hoogkerk. The main focus of the event was exchanging feedback with the participants on the preliminary results of a Q subjectivity analysis conducted in Hoogkerk, …

Designed, organized and facilitated a co-creation event with a panel of energy experts/ citizens of Hoogkerk. The main focus of the event was the ecosystem services identification and the proposal for an integrated energy landscape in Hoogkerk Zuid. A researcher from TNO and students from the master …

Social innovation: next steps in the energy transition

The purpose of this paper is to propose a research by design strategy, focusing on the generation of innovative climate adaptation solutions by utilizing the Design Thinking Process. The proposed strategy has been developed and tested in a research and design studio, which took place in 2020 at a Master …

Introduction to the Unified Citizen Engagement Model and the co-creation activities in Hoogkerk (as an example of the first phase of the model: discovering phase)

Christian van Someren en Ruud Welling hebben een presentatie verzorgd over Nul op de Trafo in de Houtlaan in Assen. De volgende presentatie ging over Making City, steps towards a ‘positive energy district’ in Hoogkerk en werd verzorgd door Ifigeneia Psarra (Hanzehogeschool) (in English).