With this article, I explore the connections between blockchain technology, coloniality, and decolonial practices. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s thought on the interdependent systems of colonialism, capitalism, and knowledge, as well as more recent work on the coloniality of digital technologies, I argue that blockchain-based systems reproduce certain dynamics at work in historical colonialism. Additionally, Wynter’s decolonial propositions provide a generative framework to understand countercultural practices with. Inspired by Wynter, Patricia de Vries explores the notion of “plot work as artistic praxis” to ask how artistic work, implicated as it is in capitalist logics, can create space for relating dierently in the context of the exploitations of those dominant logics. I apply this notion to examine how Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) in the countercultural blockchain space might contribute to this praxis.
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Het boek analyseert de lange termijn ruimtelijk-economische ontwikkeling van de luchthaven Schiphol en Schipholregio vanuit een historisch-institutioneel perspectief (van 1919-heden). Deze lange-termijn metamorfose van de luchthaven regio dient als voorbeeld voor het wereldwijd toenemen van stedelijkheid en de stedelijke ontwikkeling van metropolitane regio’s. De oorsprong en het verloop van de economische en stedelijke ontwikkelingsprocessen wordt bij wijze van onderzoek geïndentificeert en geanalyseerd, waarbij wordt uitgelegd welke collectieve arrangementen, met inachtneming van de omgevingsfactoren en visuele voorstellingen van de stad en diens stedelijkheid, van doorslaggevende invloed op de betreffende metamorfose zijn geweest.
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Sustainable urban mobility is an established target of policy making and planning in Europe. It is associated with, among others, better air quality, less noise disturbance, increased safety and quality of public space. In this regard, one of the EU Commission’s main tools to achieve sustainable urban mobility, through Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP), require the explicit integration of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). Yet, European cities face common barriers when it comes to materialising M&E in practice. To avoid or overcome these barriers, this paper argues for integrating Capacity Building (CB). We draw this conclusion based on experiences made during the M&E and CB of the Horizon 2020 Project ‘Metamorphosis’. We report our experiences, rating different monitoring indicators used for the evaluation of measures transforming car-oriented neighbourhoods into children-friendly neighbourhoods in seven European cities. We then give advice on how to design and integrate CB for a feasible M&E scheme.
"How can we transform neighbourhoods in a child-friendly way to increase the quality of life for all citizens?" ContextMetamorphosis starts from the premise that when a neighbourhood has many children on its public spaces, this is a major indicator that it is well designed as a sustainable neighbourhood. The word sustainability itself is already inseparably combined with children as it implicates “designed for the next generations”. Metamorphosis focuses on children – but not only that, children will also play a crucial role in most Work Packages of the project. They will act as ambassadors, driving forces, encouragers of actions, translators, evaluators, investigators and in many more roles. As such, children represent an enormous added value to achieve unconventional and innovative findings, methods and implementations. Aim projectThe project has started in June 2017 and will last for three years. Twelve partners from seven European countries work together on this project to achieve the following goal: “Transformation of neighbourhoods in a child-friendly way to increase the quality of life for all citizens.”Role BUasBUas is Work Package leader of ‘Capacity building’. This includes sharing the lessons learned from Metamorphosis with cities and countries who are not directly involved in the project. Another important part of this Work Package is developing didactic materials in order to implement the gained knowledge from the project in curricula of educational institutes.
