{"id":784,"date":"2013-04-22T20:59:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T19:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/?p=784"},"modified":"2013-04-22T20:59:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T19:59:20","slug":"watertorenberaad-talk-engaging-citizens-with-new-media-dutch-18-april-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/22\/watertorenberaad-talk-engaging-citizens-with-new-media-dutch-18-april-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Watertorenberaad talk &#8220;Engaging citizens with new media&#8221; (Dutch), 18 April 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week on Thursday April 18 I was invited to give a talk at the yearly <a href=\"http:\/\/watertorenberaad.nl\/werkconferenties\/\">Watertorenberaad<\/a> working conference. The Watertorenberaad is an informal Dutch network of real estate developers, housing corporations, municipalities and other city makers. I gave a talk about the potential of new media and digital culture to engage citizens in co-designing their own city, and strengthen a sense of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themobilecity.nl\/tag\/ownership\/\">ownership<\/a>. Other speakers were Sadik Harchoui, who talked about a social bank he is developing, and Frits Langenberg, founder of consumer research office <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motivaction.nl\/en\">Motivaction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was quite surprised to find that in the company of high profile real estate figures the overarching theme of the day was social innovation and bottom-up urban development. Many if not most of the projects presented were about some form of self-organization, temporariness, engaging new urban stakeholders, and alternative business models. The thorny question that remains &#8211; and which one of the participants dared to ask publicly towards the end &#8211; is whether all this will actually inspire a profound shift away from the &#8216;business as usual&#8217; attitude. Of course we&#8217;ll have to see about that in the future, but I heard some interesting stories from among other Ballast Nedam, a leading construction and infrastructure company, that is developing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballastnedam.nl\/page_12759.asp\">Tok!<\/a>, a crowdsourcing platform to contribute and develop innovative ideas. Up to now they have been using this internally but now consider expanding to involve external stakeholders too.<\/p>\n<p>Below the short presentation that I gave (pdf 580 kb):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/130418_MichieldeLange-Watertoren.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/watertorenberaad.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"419\" alt=\"watertorenberaad.PNG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/130418_MichieldeLange-Watertoren.pdf\" title=\"130418_MichieldeLange-Watertoren.pdf\">130418_MichieldeLange-Watertoren.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week on Thursday April 18 I was invited to give a talk at the yearly Watertorenberaad working conference. 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