Geertje Slingerland | Co-designing urban transitions with people

Voor het Stadsmakerscongres 2025 interviewde OPEN Rotterdam mij over ons onderzoek Ruimte voor Meiden op Zuid. Wij deden onderzoek rondom Zuidplein: op welke plekken komen meiden graag en welke plekken mijden ze liever? In deze korte video gaan we langs een aantal van deze plekken en vertel ik waarom meiden zich hier wel of niet…

Are you interested in how creative practices and competencies foster better collaboration between citizen collectives and local governments? Apply for this PhD position and join the ECCO consortium! Citizen collectives (CCs) are essential actors in shaping transitions, because they innovate new pathways, (bottom-up) approaches, and potential solutions for persistent societal challenges. Examples of innovations developed…

I’m extremely happy to announce that we have a new paper published in Cities and it’s about citizen participation tools. But, you may think, there are already so many papers on tools?! Indeed! So in this paper, that resulted from an inspiring and rewarding collaboration, we propose the EmpowerCycle, a framework that helps us understand…