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Tools for Citizen Engagement in Urban Planning KU Leuven
Engaging citizens in urban planning has the potential to generate effective ideas to reinvent our cities. Particularly, designing easy to grasp and effective tools for co-creating meaningful urban spaces remains a significant challenge and an emerging need. Such tools that can involve the community in an intelligent manner are in strong demand. It is, however, required to design, develop, and implement well-executed engagement tools that open ...
Enabling Bottom-up Practices in Urban and Architectural Design Learning and Increasing Awareness on Social Engagement KU Leuven
Today design studio is perceived as central to design learning as a platform to enable the students to learn-by-designing. The studio coordinators and external jury members convey this implicit knowledge through reflective reviews by triggering “knowing-in-action” (Schön, 1987). The students are expected to consider their design alternatives together with the existing social, spatial and political urban context and build relationships between ...
Towards Urban Sound Design for Transitional Public Railway Park/Places: Sonic Strategies for Engagement, Critical and Spatial Design KU Leuven
The undeveloped open space along the Western ring railway L28 has long been marginalized in Brussels planning processes. Thanks to its natural, historical and ecological richness the urban edge area is an excellent research object, especially in the context of urban sound design. Within the context of public park/place development along the Brussels railway line L28, urban sound is dominantly discussed as a nuisance to suppress. Urban studies ...
The role of social support in fostering school engagement in urban schools characterised by high risk of early leaving from education and training University of Antwerp
Tackling early leaving from education and training (ELET) is one of the main education policy targets of the European Union and many of its member states. This paper offers new insights on this issue by studying how so-called at-risk students develop their educational trajectory by embedding their attitudes towards and engagement in schooling within the various support networks they navigate. We argue that the concept of school engagement, ...
Visualising accessibility: an interactive tool and two applications to empirical case studies of urban development and public engagement Ghent University
While a substantial body of literature exists on the theoretical definitions and measures of accessibility, the extent to which such measures are applied into practice to assess project alternatives is less frequent (Geurs and Van Wee, 2004). Recent studies affirm that one of the main barriers to the usability of accessibility measure is the lack of visualisation quality and mapping tool for accessibility representation (te Brömmelstroet et al, ...
The design and evaluation of a pervasive engagement in a city neighborhood Vrije Universiteit Brussel
We describe how a game was designed, implemented and evaluated aiming to increase the engagement of citizens with their neighborhood. 277 players participated. Survey results show that players got to know new people as a result of playing the game and that players had the intention to keep in touch with them. The system was found to be both fun and useful. The check-in mechanic, that allowed people to check-in together, scored highest in terms ...
The influence of school mobility and dropout rates on non-mobile studentsU+2019 school engagement : a chicken-and-egg situation? Ghent University
The engagement CUBE: a dialogical tool for designing, facilitating and monitoring engaged research and teaching strategies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Purpose: Community engaged research and learning strategies are considered meaningful methods for universities to demonstrate their critical importance to today’s societies. At the same time, it is stressed that not all approaches are equally beneficial, highlighting the need for well-considered design and delivery. This paper aims to outline a helpful tool in this regard: the engagement CUBE. Design/methodology/approach: The engagement CUBE ...