Als het gaat over het bewegen van de stad en placemaking, is het nuttig ervaringen te delen. Zeker wanneer die ervaringen een pleidooi vormen voor diepere kennis over en respect voor de fysieke oudere bebouwing van de stad en op die manier herontwikkeling of zelfs sloop kunnen voorkomen. Moet bijvoorbeeld één van de laatste oude garages van de Bijlmer gesloopt worden, terwijl haast alle anderen reeds verdwenen zijn? Het antwoord op deze en meer vragen is te vinden in het onderzoek Cities & Visitors van Moving Amsterdam-Zuidoost. -----------------------------------------------------When it comes to moving the city and placemaking, it is useful to share experiences. Especially when those experiences form a plea for deeper knowledge about and respect for the physical older buildings of the city and can thus prevent redevelopment or even demolition. For example, should one of the last old garages in the Bijlmer be demolished, while almost all the others have already disappeared? The answer to these and more questions can be found in the Cities & Visitors study by Moving Amsterdam-Zuidoost.
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Developing a research approach from Amsterdam Zuidoost. We are committed to using our presence in the area to contributea) continuing promoting interest in, and acquiring knowledge of, Zuidoost; b) respecting and embracing its versatility and c) eliminating barriers in its layout.In all three elements, we adopt the metaphor of a guided tour that provides a physical and mental map to share. We relate such a map to anexisting tradition of what we like to call ‘translators’ of the area, people suchas guide Jenny van Dalen, or architect Peter Dautzenberg. These are peoplewho recognised the beauty of places such as the Bijlmer before others, andwho taught many to appreciate (and conserve) them. In this sense, theirwork has contributed to a revalorisation of Bijlmer heritage and to a morewidespread awareness of its value.However, there are also concerns that this revalorisation could result inexcessively lucrative operations that may be detrimental to the currentresidents of Zuidoost. The renovation of the Amsterdamse Poort and thetransformation of the emblematic ‘Zandkasteel’ (Sand Castle) building intoluxury apartments has been met with mixed feelings, as these works couldaffect accessibility and increase prices throughout the area. More than ever,especially in relation to point ‘b’ above, concerted efforts need to be made toensure that investments will improve collective public spaces and will buildon an inclusive and diverse cultural and historical awareness.More specifically, The Bijlmer has now acquired legitimacy and cannot simplybe demolished. Its history is also linked to the many newcomers that broughtnew rhythms to the city of Amsterdam.We are convinced that Zuidoost’s sustainable plans and metropolitanambitions will only succeed if they also include, reflect upon and safeguard this versatility.In cooperation with Carla Hoffschulte
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Schools, youth care and youth work help young people to function in society. But sometimes obstacles to the development of young people have their origins in that same society. How can we create space and opportunities for young people to positively change their environments and society? Research at three Amsterdam-based organizations - Studio 52nd, Studiezalen, and Swazoom's youth work at the Bijlmer Open School Community - provide us with examples.
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Vergeet de ruzies die volwassenen erover maken en kijk door de ogen van een kind. Een kind kan vele pieten aan, als de mythe maar intact blijft. In dit artikel in Trouw 11-11-2015 komen twee pedagogen aan het woord over de zwartepietendiscussie, onder wie lector Christa Nieuwboer van Fontys Hogeschool Pedagogiek.
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In Amsterdam we have been working with a diversity of partners in the city for more than a decade now. Our study and research in our research group Cities & Visitors have been focused on the image and reputations of our cities, including the image and reputation of different areas of the city itself. Year after year, we have seen together with our students in different European cities, how somehow intangible concepts truly influence the prosperity and the prospects of those living in different city areas. While some areas have been considered cool and ‘the place to be’ (mostly in the carefully restored older city centers) others suffer from a resilient bad reputation (see especially some neighborhoods in the peripheral areas)However, we have also realized that good and bad reputations do not last forever. Before the covid pandemic, many of the beautiful but overcrowded historical centers had become ‘no-go areas’, according to many residents. Simultaneously, we were also starting to identify clear signals that the reputation of some ‘peripheral’ places that had been considered the ‘worse places’ for years were beginning to be reframed. Operating from one of these peripheral areas in Amsterdam, the Bijlmer in the South East, we had already started to discover the interest, the knowledge and the creativity that slowly but surely had been nesting in Bijlmer, home to people from all over the world. We also realized that many of these areas had also become the home of our university campuses, including student housing. At the same time we also saw that lots of work still needed to be done and that all of the appealing potential was not necessarily visible at first sight. The area has been lacking infrastructure to articulate and put the already existing interest on the map. Challenged by our students, we reflected on our role as a university of applied sciences and decided to put some results of our research into practice. We have started a real life Lab & Café with a number of partners in Amsterdam South East. In the Lab we work on place making, building maps, exploring and documenting in cooperation not only with our students and co-researchers but also (and especially) with many key actors in Bijlmer who believed in and advocated for its potential before others. These experiments and practices respond to the need to develop (by doing) a more polycentric mapping of our cities and to stimulate different views on creativity and creative business initiatives. The work has the extra impact of being part of a consortium of five cities in Europe linked by our project IMAGE. In the Ureka workshop we would love to share with you how Spinoza Imaginaries Lab & Café has enabled us to become better ‘agents of change’ in our campuses. Through a ‘’Yes We Can,’’ approach one finds commonalities and discovers that co-creation is also a matter of commitment and trust and that creativity is inherent to life and belongs to all life phases and facets.
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Dit rapport gaat over hoe formele en informele politieke participatie van adolescenten en jongvolwassenen (16-27 jaar) in Amsterdam Noord, Nieuw-West en Zuidoost zich verhouden tot participatieve ongelijkheid in de stad. We stellen ons in dit rapport de vraag welke rol lokale (zelf)organisaties, bewonersinitiatieven en jongerenplatforms kunnen spelen in het bestrijden van participatieve ongelijkheid. Om de vraag te kunnen beantwoorden in hoeverre praktijken van politieke participatie ook daadwerkelijk leiden tot meer invloed van jongeren op politieke besluitvorming maken we gebruik van het concept ‘linking sociaal kapitaal’. We hebben ons specifiek gericht op groepen jongeren tussen de zestien en zevenentwintig jaar voor wie de opkomstcijfers laag zijn. Welke ervaringen hebben zij met participatie en hoe verhouden hun ervaringen zich tot de ervaringen en verwachtingen van politici, bestuurders en beleidsmakers? Wie speelt een rol in het verbinden van jongeren aan overheidsinstellingen en hoe gaan deze sleutelfiguren te werk? Hoe verlopen ontmoetingen tussen jongeren en representanten van de overheid, en in hoeverre lukt het initiatieven die (in)formele participatie van jongeren willen versterken om hun invloed te vergroten? Dit onderzoek is tot stand gekomen met behulp van financiering door Het Kenniscentrum Ongelijkheid. Onderzoekers: Sietske Zweegman, Femke Kaulingfreks, Floris Vermeulen, Sharifah Redan, Zulia Rosalina, Elena Ponzoni, met medewerking van Charissa Leiwakabessy, Reyhan Bencan en Malisa Agyeiwaa
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Korte impressie van een bezoek met tien collega bestuurders van Nederlandse hogescholen aan het Franse hoge onderwijs, 26-29 september 2006.
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Artikel in de TvZ: Een methodiek is ontwikkeld voor cultuursensitief Omgaan met Onbegrepen Gedrag (OOG) bij mensen met dementie thuis. Onbegrepen gedrag komt voor bij bijna alle mensen met dementie. Om goed om te gaan met dit gedrag, is het van belang de oorzaak ervan te begrijpen. Bestaande richtlijnen voor de aanpak van onbegrepen gedrag sluiten niet voldoende aan bij thuiswonende mensen met dementie met een migratieachtergrond. Een methodiek is ontwikkeld voor cultuursensitief Omgaan met Onbegrepen Gedrag (OOG) bij mensen met dementie thuis.
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Verslag van een werkconferentie van De Baak, getiteld de Wereld van Morgen. Viermaal twee dagen, eerst Noordwijk, dan 13 en 14 april in Driebergen, 11 en 12 mei in Londen en 8 en 9 juni in Parijs
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