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The role of event in hybrid communities: An interaction ritual approach.

Betekenisvol Bonairiaans burgerschapsonderwijs

"Je kunt niet op Bonaire wonen en niets van Bonaire afweten, dan ben je een half mens” Duidelijke taal van juf Sonia Janga. Ze is remedial teacher op het Integraal Kind Centrum (IKC) van de Bonairiaanse basisschool Kolegio Kristu Bon Wardador. Ze deed deze uitspraak toen ze door ons werd geïnterviewd over het Bonairiaans burgerschapsprogramma, dat recent voor vier basisscholen op het eiland is ontwikkeld. De noodzaak om een burgerschapsprogramma te ontwikkelen kwam voort uit het feit dat het onderwijs op Bonaire – in de hoedanigheid van bijzondere gemeente binnen het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden – uitgaat van vrijwel dezelfde richtlijnen als voor scholen in Europees Nederland. Daar hoort de burgerschapsopdracht uit 2021 ook bij. In deze bijdrage staan we achtereenvolgens stil bij: 1) de visie achter en uitgangspunten voor het betekenisvolle Bonairiaans burgerschapsonderwijs, 2) de wijze waarop scholen dit burgerschapsonderwijs hebben ontwikkeld en geïmplementeerd en 3) succesfactoren en uitdagingen die de scholen tijdens het proces ondervonden.Inzichten over het Bonairiaanse burgerschapsonderwijsprogramma zijn ook relevant voor scholen in Europees Nederland, die een (cultureel) diverse leerlingpopulatie hebben: ook zij moeten stilstaan bij de vraag welk (burgerschaps)onderwijs voor hun leerlingen betekenisvol is.

Handbook for Strategic City-University co-operation

Worldwide, there is a growing recognition that strategic partnering between cities and universities can bring substantial benefits for both sides. The big question is how to organize such partnerships successfully. This handbook offers insights, best practices and advice for leaders in cities and universities that want to go beyond “ad hoc” projects and take the next step towards a strategic and sustainable partnership. The handbook identifies promising avenues, but also barriers and pitfalls and how to avoid them. Illustrated by a rich variety of examples from European cities, the handbook provides concrete advice on the various stages of strategic city-university collaboration. This handbook intends to provide inspiring practices and guidance to develop strategic interaction between city and university, considering the complex and layered nature of both. The focus lies on the more strategic, transformational types of collaborations, that are more complex.

The hackable city

Design Concepts for Empowerment through Urban Play

Playfulness intertwined with city-related themes, such as participatory planning and civic media are becoming more popular. In the last ten years, game designers have taken up the theme of play in relation to the urban environment. In this paper, we present a conceptual mapping of “urban play,” through the analysis of eight examples of urban games. Better conceptual tools are necessary to discuss and reflect on how games draw on, or deal with, urban issues. While urban games are diverse in medium, intent, and experience, across the spectrum analyzed in this paper, they hold the potential for various player experiences emerging through play that may be useful to designers. These are: a sense of agency and impact; feelings of relatedness and empathy; an awareness and understanding of complexity, perspective-taking and scenario-building, and either planning or taking action. The conceptual mapping offers scholars and practitioners a more nuanced vocabulary for designing games and playful interventions that might be used to tackle societal issues that either require or could benefit from genuine public involvement as engaged citizens.

In and out domains

The implementation of games in architecture and urban planning has a long history since the 1960s and is still a preferential tool to foster public participation and address contemporary spatial-and social-conflicts within the urban fabric. Moreover, in the last decade, we have seen the rise of urban play as a tool for community building, and city-making and Western society is actively focusing on play/playfulness-together with ludic dynamics and mechanics-as an applied methodology to deal with complex challenges, and deeper comprehend emergent situations. In this paper, we aim to initiate a dialogue between game scholars and architects through the use of the PLEX/CIVIC framework. Like many creative professions, we believe that architectural practice may benefit significantly from having more design methodologies at hand, thus improving lateral thinking. We aim at providing new conceptual and operative tools to discuss and reflect on how games facilitate long-Term planning processes and help to solve migration issues, allowing citizens themselves to take their responsibility and contribute to durable solutions.