Together We Can Make It Work! Toward a Design Framework for Inclusive and Participatory City-Making of Playable Cities

Making it work together can be challenging when various stakeholders are involved. Given the context of neighborhoods and cities specifically, stakeholders values and interests are not always aligned. In these settings, to construct long-term and sustaining participatory city-making projects, to make it work together, is demanding. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a design framework for inclusive and participatory city-making. This framework is inspired by the playable city perspective in that it endorses an open, exploratory, and interactive mindset of city actors. An extensive literature review on approaches taken for playful and participatory interventions in local communities provides the foundations for the framework. The review brings forward four pillars on which the framework is grounded and four activities for exploration of the design space for participatory city-making. A case study from The Hague (NL) is used to demonstrate how the framework can be applied to design and analyze processes in which city stakeholders together make it work. The case study analysis complements the framework with various research methods to support researchers, urban planners, and designers to engage with all city stakeholders to create playful and participatory interventions, which are inclusive and meaningful for the local community. The research contributions of this paper are the proposed framework and informed suggestions on how this framework in practice assists city stakeholders to together make it work

Witnessed presence

Multi Actor SystemsTechnology, Policy and Managemen

Flying Money 2018: Investigating Illicit Financial Flows in the City

Amsterdam has a vibrant economic climate in which international businesses like to use the city as a base. Even though the international banking world seems to have overcome the financial crisis of 2008, there is still a lot of uncertainty as to how the banking world will survive. Nevertheless, the international economy is thriving and Amsterdam is one of its centres that contributes every day. Being a hub and a hotspot for many people from all over the world, also other new dynamics have entered the city in the last few years. Millions of euro’s pas through the city of which we do not know anymore whose money it is, where it comes from or where it goes. Also, the developing cryptocurrencies and parallel money cultures all contribute to the opaqueness of the future of the financial world. To better understand the current dynamics that will affect our financial future, Amsterdam has taken the initiative to organize an international conference with and for European cities: Flying Money – Investigating illicit financial flows in the city. Below first a description is given of the challenges a North European city like Amsterdam is facing today. Secondly the potential of recognizing and designing urban dynamics, which informed the design of the conference and the line-up of speakers, is sketched. In the last section results of the Flying Money conference are shared and a short description of the book is offered

Nzoia WeShareIt YUTPA Dataset

YUTPA stands for ‘being with You in Unity of Time, Place and Action’. It consists of 4 dimensions and in each of the dimensions are a number of variables being assessed. The participants made trade-offs between the 4 dimensions, to shape presence and the conditions for trust formation