Design driven participation processes supporting (circular industry park) transitions

The PhD investigates (emerging) participatory processes and technological ecologies that exist within the REFLIP context. It mobilizes the design research and assessments as integration media in a collective learning trajectory with researchers and stakeholders from various backgrounds. This includes but is not limited to designing and rolling out an innovative stakeholder involvement process and infrastructure, developing various data formats, communication tools and formats, supporting interactions with different target-audiences, revealing how new forms of human data interaction and engagement can empower matters of urban legibility, agency, negotiability and collective learning. The PhD creates new knowledge by studying designed (participation) artifacts in use or from the actual process of bringing new (participation) artifacts into being (in collaboration with PhD2). The research will focus on how data creation can be understood as a multilayered set of interlocking design activities by developing new stakeholder involvement processes and/or infrastructures that enable or encourage the acquisition, visualization and analysis of a rich variety of spatially-relevant data in shared, collaborative contexts. The expected outcomes can exist in new process frameworks that model and implement these visions through planning tools and policy interventions in practice.