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Community Resilience 2.0: The Process of Resiliency Building in Resource Dependent Communities in Developing Countries: Enhancing the Theory Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Community resilience refers to a community’s ability to withstand exogenous disruptions as a result of environmental, social and economic change. A community needs three components to be resilient: resources, capacity and action. We believe that the theory on community resilience mainly focuses on prerequisite dimensions, rather than on resiliency building. In this regard, we argue that more insights need to be acquired in the community’s ...
The Community Land Trust. Building the City on Common Ground Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Sense of Community Building. An educational research excercise of Brussels' Zinneke Parade KU Leuven
In this doctoral research, we ask ourselves whether a pedagogy engaging in the theory and practice of community building still makes sense today. We wonder what the sense and meaning of community building could be. Or, put differently, how community building could still make sense in the current conditions of diversity and urbanity. We undertake this research guided by the case of the Brussels’s Zinneke Parade. The Zinneke Parade is not a one ...
Educational research on community building practices. From evaluation to witnessing KU Leuven
In this chapter, we focus on educational research of community building practices. Research on community building practices is often conceptualised as an evaluation of what works to build a good community. Such research is based on the idea that we can define what the good community is and subsequently build such communities through practices that are seen as interventions. This is highly problematic in an age where we live with increasing ...
Experiences from building an outdoor testbed for community wireless networks University of Antwerp
Community Wireless Networks are an emerging networking model, offering people the opportunity to build and manage their own network without being dependent on telecom operators. The strength of this type of networks lies in the involvement of the whole community, as each person benefitting from the community wireless network somehow contributes to the design, deployment and maintenance of the network. This model has resulted in large community ...
Towards building virtual community for ambient assisted living University of Antwerp
Elder people are becoming a predominant aspect of our societies. As such, solutions both efficacious and cost-effective need to be sought. This paper proposes a design to construct a virtual ambient assisted living community where dwellers make contributions to the community so as to best utilize resources and minimize costs. We use service oriented architecture (SOA) to orchestrate the available resources inside the community, thus bringing ...
Building communities. Presenting a model of community formation and organizational complexity in southwestern Anatolia KU Leuven
In this paper, a model of community formation and organizational complexity is presented, focusing on the fundamental role of social interactions and information transmission for the development of complex social organisation. The model combines several approaches in complex systems thinking which has garnered increasing attention in archaeology. It is then outlined how this conceptual model can be applied in archaeology. In the absence of ...