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Arte Útil archive nr:
213
Initiator:
Jeanne van Heeswijk
Location:
The Netherlands
Category:
pedagogical, urban-development, social
Users:
Students of the Professor Einstein Elementary School, students of the Calvijn Junior College (lower secondary professional education), Jeanne van Heeswijk, Dennis Kaspori, Slotervaart’s design department and outside experts, inhabitants of Slotervaart
Maintained by:
SKOR, Amsterdam City Council.
Certification:
implemented
Duration:
2005 - 2011
Jeanne van Heeswijk
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Face Your World
Description:
This project was set up as a VMBO (lower secondary professional education). The software that was customised for this project – the so-called Interactor – is an interactive impression of the neighbourhood and features a virtual town planner who functions as a coach when making new plans for the neighbourhood. In the Stedelijklab which is essentially a gym hall converted into a design studio, students designed a new park. The park is to be named Staalmanpark. The designs were not only based on their own wishes but also on those of other local residents.
Goals:
The project enables young people to investigate the environment in which they live. It gives them instruments so that they can – like a genuine town
planner – change their environment.
Beneficial Outcomes:
In 2011, their new park was opened.
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