TransformCity®

“De transformatie van gebieden met veel stakeholders en versnipperd eigendom is een tijdsintensief en complex proces met een behoorlijke mate van onvoorspelbaarheid en chaos.” Daarom lanceerde ik het online platform Transformcity, waarop betrokkenen direct met elkaar in contact komen. In dit artikel kijk ik terug op hoe het platform hielp de gebiedstransformatie van Amstel3 tot een succes te maken.

Nieuw artikel op Gebiedsontwikkeling.nu met reflectie op de implementatie van ons online platform tot nu toe.

On Thursday 15 November we launched our new improved platform in Amstel3, the large transformation district in Amsterdam that we unsolicitedly adopted eight years ago in order to develop a new collaborative approach to transforming urban areas. Our activities and experiences in Amstel3 led to prototyping, testing and further developing the Transformcity platform as digital support for this process and the local community that we built in this district was formalised in the local organisation ZO!City.

On 15 November we celebrated two things. We launched the new platform but it was also our founder Saskia Beer’s goodbye party from ZO!City. The new team with Emilie Vlieger, who has built urban development communities before in Utrecht, and Manou Roomer and Violet Nijboer, is ready to bring ZO!City further and made agreements with the municipality about managing the community and moderating the platform together. The launch party also was a shared initiative.

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Happy to have been selected as a winner in Smart City Expo's call for solutions and present our online dashboard on the fair in Barcelona! So if you are there, please visit our stand for more information!

Only two weeks after launching our pilot, TransformCity® won the second prize in the international Le Monde Smart Cities Innovation Awards 2016, category Citizen Engagement. The international high-profile jury was led by prof. Saskia Sassen.