Comprehensive understanding of the merits of bottom-up urban development is lacking, thus hampering and complicating associated collaborative processes. Therefore, and given the assumed relevancies, we mapped the social, environmental and economic values generated by bottom-up developments in two Dutch urban areas, using theory-based evaluation principles. These evaluations raised insights into the values, beneficiaries and path dependencies between successive values, confirming the assumed effect of placemaking accelerating further spatial developments. It also revealed broader impacts of bottom-up endeavors, such as influences on local policies and innovations in urban development.
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This document focuses on the Bottom-up Business Opportunity (BUBO) method developed by the Knowledge Center Biobased Economy (KCBBE) of the Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen as part of the Interreg North Sea PERISCOPE program1. In short, the PERISCOPE program includes the start of a permanent transnational intersectoral innovation platform for sustainable development within the North Sea regions. The program will answer the question what opportunities for new business in the North Sea region can be developed and deployed. The final result is a platform that provides innovations and instruments in the areas of finance, policy and Living Labs.
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Biomimicry education is grounded in a set of natural design principles common to every known lifeform on Earth. These Life’s Principles (LPs) (cc Biomimicry 3.8), provide guidelines for emulating sustainable strategies that are field-tested over nearly four billion years of evolution. This study evaluates an exercise for teaching LPs to interdisciplinary students at three universities, Arizona State University (ASU) in Phoenix, Arizona (USA), College of Charleston (CofC) in Charleston, South Carolina (USA) and The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS) in The Hague (The Netherlands) during the spring 2021 semester. Students researched examples of both biological organisms and human designs exhibiting the LPs. We gauged the effectiveness of the exercise through a common rubric and a survey to discover ways to improve instruction and student understanding. Increased student success was found to be directly linked to introducing the LPs with illustrative examples, assigning an active search for examples as part of the exercise, and utilizing direct assessment feedback loops. Requiring students to highlight the specific terms of the LP sub-principles in each example is a suggested improvement to the instructions and rubric. An iterative, face-to-face, discussion-based teaching and learning approach helps overcome minor misunderstandings. Reiterating the LPs throughout the semester with opportunities for application will highlight the potential for incorporating LPs into students’ future sustainable design process. Stevens LL, Fehler M, Bidwell D, Singhal A, Baumeister D. Building from the Bottom Up: A Closer Look into the Teaching and Learning of Life’s Principles in Biomimicry Design Thinking Courses. Biomimetics. 2022; 7(1):25. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics7010025
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In order to achieve much-needed transitions in energy and health, systemic changes are required that are firmly based on the principles of regard for others and community values, while at the same time operating in market conditions. Social entrepreneurship and community entrepreneurship (SCE) hold the promise to catalyze such transitions, as they combine bottom-up social initiatives with a focus on financially viable business models. SCE requires a facilitating ecosystem in order to be able to fully realize its potential. As yet it is unclear in which way the entrepreneurial ecosystem for social and community entrepreneurship facilitates or hinders the flourishing and scaling of such entrepreneurship. It is also unclear how exactly entrepreneurs and stakeholders influence their ecosystem to become more facilitative. This research programme addresses these questions. Conceptually it integrates entrepreneurial ecosystem frameworks with upcoming theories on civic wealth creation, collaborative governance, participative learning and collective action frameworks.This multidisciplinary research project capitalizes on a unique consortium: the Dutch City Deal ‘Impact Ondernemen’. In this collaborative research, we enhance and expand current data collection efforts and adopt a living-lab setting centered on nine local and regional cases for collaborative learning through experimenting with innovative financial and business models. We develop meaningful, participatory design and evaluation methods and state-of-the-art digital tools to increase the effectiveness of impact measurement and management. Educational modules for professionals are developed to boost the abovementioned transition. The project’s learnings on mechanisms and processes can easily be adapted and translated to a broad range of impact areas.
Een bottom-up-initiatief is een project dat niet vanuit de overheid of instellingen (top) wordt gestart maar vanuit burgers of eindgebruikers (bottom). We kijken in dit onderzoek naar theorieën die de bottom-up-aanpak ondersteunen. Ook doen we aanbevelingen om bottom-up initiatieven beter en sneller te laten verlopen.Doel Het doel van dit onderzoek is om nieuwe theoretische inzichten en strategieën te ontwikkelen voor stedelijke gebiedsontwikkeling. Hierbij is een sterke focus op de bottom-up aanpak. Dit houdt in dat er gekeken wordt naar initiatieven en ideeën van gebruikers of burgers (bottom) in plaats van de plannen van de overheid of instellingen (top). De bottom-up aanpak heeft veel toegevoegde waarde, maar initiatiefnemers ervaren nog veel belemmeringen. Dit onderzoek wil bijdragen aan het verminderen van die belemmeringen. Resultaten Dit onderzoek loopt. Na afloop vind je hier een samenvatting van de resultaten. Looptijd 01 september 2017 - 01 september 2021 Aanpak Achter bottom-up processen in gebiedsontwikkeling zit nu vaak weinig theorie. Het zijn intuïtieve, trial-and-error processen. Eindgebruikers en burgers werken samen met professionele partijen maar dit is nu nog niet echt gestroomlijnd. Daarom kijken we hoe partijen samenwerken en waar verbeteringen mogelijk zijn. Deze kennis gebruiken we om een theoretische en wetenschappelijke basis voor bottom-up gebiedsontwikkeling te leggen. Hierin komt naar voren welke factoren gaan bepalen of een project succesvol zal zijn. Met deze inzichten kunnen bijvoorbeeld nieuwe strategieën ontwikkeld worden, die een combinatie kunnen zijn tussen een bottom-up en een top-down aanpak.
Overconsumptie kan worden verminderd door mensen de optie te geven spullen te huren in plaats van aanschaffen: de deeleconomie. Dit heeft milieuvoordelen en is sociaaleconomisch gunstig. De deeleconomie bestaat echter vooral uit kleinschalige initiatieven en het is onbekend wat nodig is om grootschalig toegepast te worden.
