EMMASINGELKWADRANT

Michele, resident of the Ventoseflat Sas, studio owner of the Lichttoren Laurens, resident of De Hertog Caspar, resident of De Vorst Peter, resident of De Vorst Olaf & Harry, residents of De Hertog *No time to read the whole blog? scroll down to striking information and the conclusion* As mentioned in the previous blog, we have a broader understanding of the neighborhood and want to discover the possibilities together with the stakeholders. We will make a start already by trying to see if an ABCD approach can change the form of conversation from discussion to constructive dialogue. collecting and gathering insights about the willingness of stakeholders to contribute and the internal possibilities is where we now want to focus on. Several inhabitants reacted to our flyer. We planned six conversations the first week after the Christmas Holidays. Meeting offline and online were both possible. If responders wanted to meet offline, they had to provide an offline location themselves. MIC...

ABCD The Christmas Holidays are over, and while we have been working on this project during the holidays as well, it is now time to take action again. We got different reactions to both the sent update and the flyer. In the coming days, we will plan conversations with the people that did respond to the flyer. However, these conversations will have a different approach than the conversations we have had during the first research phase. In the first conversations we wanted to get in touch with different stakeholders from the area, find out what kind of people we are dealing with, experience what is going on in the neighborhood, discover where the needs lie and what we as Community Designers could contribute. Although many stakeholders have identified positive points and opportunities in the area, the emphasis has often been on the negative. We have highlighted these frustrations and pain points in the area among other things in order to make the municipality see the urgency to be visibly...

We asked Lynn & Elke again if they could look at our blogs from the past month. In particular the 'challenge the challenge 2' and our reflection on November and part of December. Although we did ask Elke, only Lynn had time to look at our blogs. We really appreciate her taking the time to look at our blogs and provide feedback. Feedback Lynn -           08-12-20 challenge the challenge 2 blog: you two do a great job of explaining what is happening, why you have undertaken certain actions and why you have certain beliefs. You explain the various perspectives you have to deal with within this project, which makes it clear for me as an outsider. furthermore, I think you are great in formulating everything very specifically. I see a lot of growth regarding this, when I compare this blog with previous ones. The paragraph of what do you need to know? is very clear in the way of clear and direct questions, communication about your future focus points etc. Nice that...

Update Amanda, TrainMore UPDATE Yesterday we delivered the flyers to all stakeholders in the Emmasingelkwadrant.  We are very curious about the responses we will receive. Before we enter into conversations with new stakeholders, it is important to inform the stakeholders that we have already spoken to about our process. The stakeholders in the Emmasingelkwadrant indicated that the moment they provide input, they receive little or no feedback. This gives them the impression that they are not being heard and that little is done with their ideas and input. That is why we think it is important to update them about our process. We want to involve them and show them that they are being listened to. In this way, we try to create a kind of bond with the stakeholders and give them the idea that they can actually contribute something to improving the livability in the Emmasingelkwadrant. Before we sent the update, we had it checked by Maurice so that we did not 'pass' our client. The upd...

Last Tuesday, 08-12-20, we had a meeting with Sandra, Rolf, and Eric. In addition to discussing the meeting that has yet to be planned with the project developers and a possible sign that can be placed in the Emmasingelkwadrant, we mostly discussed the content of our flyer. They were actually very enthusiastic about our way of working; we took into account all the feedback that was given, we reflected on the feedback, and explained why we made certain choices. Eventually, we chose our own direction and they appreciated our proactive attitude in that. Maurice, our ‘new’ supervisor, was wondering how we experienced all the different feedback we got. We have received a lot of different feedback. We read everything, filtered everything, and ultimately opted for the content that we supported. Maurice was pleasantly surprised that we responded so well to the ‘municipal way of doing things'. We got the feeling it was some sort of 'test'; how should we react to all these different ...

This is our second extensive reflection on the process. We try to reflect on every blog, but in this reflection we each reflect for ourselves how we experience the process of our project. In this reflection, we will mostly reflect on the past month, but also on the feedback from our feedback buddies. FEEDBACK BUDDY LYNN Lynn is our feedback buddy since the start of our project. We tried to work on the feedback she has given us last time. This time she also gave us feedback:  Blog 24-11-2020: Quite an interesting blog, I am also very curious about the actual Kumu map, I understand from your blog that it can still change but perhaps it is a good idea to still add a screenshot or link of what it looks like now. creates a better overview than the excel sheet.  Blog 26-11-2020: A lot of information about the conversations you had. The conclusion makes it very clear which is very good and important in order to understand!  Blog 01-12-2020: Nice that you include the program of t...