With online meetings, we often make the mistake of just copying what we usually do in face-to-face meetings. But instead, we should look at what online meetings are best suited for and for which face-to-face meetings are not! Another important[…]
Catégorie : Co-design
UTOPANG, A DROP OF WATER IN BEIJING!
François Jégou, Strategic Design Scenarios, November 2019 (Version française à la suite) « We community collaborators have many ideas, but they are like a cloud. During these two days of work with the design[…]
LUPI, transformation at every step? Les LUPI, transformation à tous les étages ?
LUPI, TRANSFORMATION ET EVERY STEP? (Version française à la suite) « Initially, the LUPI were thought to stimulate innovation in firms. In 10 years the demand has changed: it comes more from public stakeholders and concerns more complex problems, problems that[…]
BIOCANTEENS’ KITCHEN MICRO-GOOD PRACTICES
Some news from URBACT BIOCANTEENS Tansfer Network. Our first Phase 2 Transnational Meeting was pretty early with only 5 of the 6 city partners (despite efforts from all the Greek city of Trikala was not allowed to engage travel cost[…]
LUPI x LUPI
LUPI2 « It’s time for the LUPI to get out of the woods. » (french version below) All participants of the LUPI COMMUNITY agree on this idea. However, when going to the « why » or « how », visions get fuzzier and opinions less convergent.[…]
Dear administration / Chère administration…
MORE EMPATHY IN ADMINISTRATIVE LETTERS (Version française à la suite) « …for me it is out of question to answer just a refusal without explanation… »; « …against an “administrated”, I do not have to have emotions…« ; « …we wanted to put a little[…]
SETTING THE CURSORS OF CO-CREATION
SET THE CURSORS OF CO-CREATION (version française à la suite) How to reconcile an approach framed in advance and a posture open to co-creation? How to navigate between systematic and time-consuming co-creation and marginal co-development on residual or peripheral[…]
INVENTIO @ SUPERDEMOCRATIE…
(English version below) Le Sénat de Belgique accueille SUPERDEMOCRATIE du 1er au 31 octobre 2017. Initiative conjointe de M HKA, BPS 22, BOZARS et VUB CROSSTALKS cette exposition présente des œuvres contemporaines et des commentateurs invités autour des thèmes INVESTIGATIO,[…]
120 DUTCH CIVIL SERVANTS FOR LIFT EUROPE
(version Française à la suite) As part of the integration programs for their young public servants, the Dutch ministries organize a study tour to Brussels to visit the European institutions, meet and exchange with their spokespersons, interview and discuss with[…]
HQD DESIGN (HIGH DEMOCRATIC QUALITY)
What does design have to do with democracy? Democracy is usually a matter of politics, of debate of ideas, of governance but democracy is hidden also in the folds of our daily life. This workshop aims to examine products,[…]
THE FUTURE OF ME
THE FUTURE OF ME in a sustainable world: a forward-looking game in which you are both the main player and the main focus! THE FUTURE OF ME IN A NUTSHELL… The project « THE FUTURE OF ME » proposes that we think[…]
We all have a good reason not to evaluate [public policies]
[Version française – english below] « On a tous une bonne raison de ne pas faire d’évaluation [des politiques publiques] » Dans les projets de développement durable sur les territoires (collectivités territoriales, communes, intercommunalités, agglomérations, etc.), on fait des tonnes d’actions, mais l’impact de celles-ci[…]
Between « off-ground » and « off-road »
Entre « hors-sol » et « tout-terrain » (English version below) Expliquer le design appliqué à l’action publique dans les modalités habituelles de formation en chambre est une gageure… et souvent une source de frustration, quelque chose comme : « …je vous raconte sur un[…]
BIBMARKT MATCH-MAKING
Eight o’clock: people crowd in front of the entrance to De Centraale. Inside it is full: a long line of people waits in front of the counters to withdraw their places. A concert ? A show ? Not at all.[…]
Back from Helsinki Design Week…
As a foreign visitor a Design Week is not an easy to use service: 250 events spread all other the city and along more than one week is difficult to grasp in a short 2 days visit… So this article[…]
Mikado Design for PEER 2 PEER…
TAIEX-REGIO multi-country workshop on evaluation of TAIEX-REGIO PEER 2 PEER pilot project Peer to peer means a distributed networking architecture that partitions tasks between equipotent peers. Since 2015 it is also a new tool called TAIEX-REGIO PEER 2 PEER[…]
Making citizens’ deliberation the new normal…
CIMULACT research scenario building workshop took place these Thursday and Friday at the Politecnico university in Milan. A large intense workshop with more than 100 participants at 12 tables dealing each with social needs emerged from the 30[…]
Citizenship in Brussels’ lockdown
Saturday 7:10 rushing to the metro: today we host the Brussels’ CIMULACT workshop. The same workshop takes place also in Milan today and last week it was in Copenhagen. These 3 workshops are the first of a series of workshops[…]
Design des politiques publiques: un exercice pratique…
Comment les villes peuvent-elles mieux collaborer avec les citoyens? Comment adapter la gouvernance et les politiques publiques des municipalités pour tirer au mieux parti de l’innovation sociale? Les transformations en cours dans la ville d’Amersfoort/NL et l’exemple d’autres villes Européennes[…]