#Healthy urban living
Projects

Amsterdam is where the world discovers new solutions for global challenges. Campus Amsterdam connects all campuses, labs and innovation districts in the Amsterdam metropolitan area, to provide entrepreneurs, researchers and students around the world with one entrance to the region's wealth of innovation, knowledge and education.

For all the local partners involved, Campus Amsterdam is a network that facilitates the exchange of knowledge and the development of new crossovers. The diversity and amount of districts combined with Amsterdam's bottom-up innovation DNA make Campus Amsterdam a unique accelerator of regional innovation.

Nature4Cities is a H2020 EU-funded project, creating a comprehensive reference Platform for Nature Based Solutions (NBS), offering technical solutions, methods and tools to empower urban planning decision making. This will help addressing the contemporary environmental, social and economic challenges that face European Cities.

We will bring Nature back into innovation, planning and their implementation. This new governance implies new collaborative models driven by citizens, researchers, policy makers, and industry leaders, utilizing co-creation processes and sharing of Best Practice. Thus, the goal for implementation Projects is a positive balance between economic, environmental and societal benefits and costs.

Urban green is good for your health. Urban green is good for social cohesion and Amsterdam’s city parks are being used more and more intensively. It is the City of Amsterdam’s responsibility to ensure that the parks remain attractive for everyone, but how? The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the VU is working together with the Gemeente Amsterdam on an app that collects information about how people perceive and use urban green spaces. A pilot is being conducted in the Rembrandtpark to see how such information can inform park renovations.

An example of the first results may look like this:

Are you visiting the Rembrandtpark? Go to http://mijnpark.environmentalgeography.nl/ to join!

Smart Stories

Check the article about MijnPark featured in our online magazine 'Smart Stories':

Noise pollution is one of the biggest social problems in densely populated areas. To monitor and solve noise pollution problems in cities SensorTeam developed a novel automated platform and sound sensor for distributed noise measurements.

In a partnership with the city of Amstelveen we have installed a professional audio system in a hangout at the Zetterij in Amstelveen. We use wireless sensors to measure the sound level (dB) produced around this meeting place to avoid public nuisance.

These sensors are placed in the area around the hangout. Maximum sound levels can be remotely monitored and adjusted from SensorTeam’s cloud platform.

In this smart city project the city of Amstelveen gives substance to the local youth’s wish to play music at their own hangout.

About the technique
SensorTeam’s sound level meter is solar powered and is using low power network (LoRa) communication for realtime cloud monitoring. Measurements are accurate and independent and are displayed on SensorTeam’s cloud dashboard. To visualise the recorded data (sound levels) the varying decibels are represented on a coloured map, using inverse distance weighted technique.

LoRa Sound Sensor

SensorTeam IoT Dashboard

Circle Lab is an online platform for cities, businesses, and citizens to explore, brainstorm, and implement circular business models and strategies to tackle universal and local challenges. By digitising knowledge, opening up access, and encouraging co-creation, we aim to break down information silos and fuel cross-industry collaboration and innovation. The circular economy has the potential to change the world, and we believe the time to bring the concept to the kitchen table – so that everyone, from entrepreneurs to big brands, can play a role in making it a reality – is now.

• If you are interested in participating in one of our challenges register on the platform at www.circle-lab.com
• If you would like to provide content for our knowledge hub or are interested in placing a challenge on the platform please email us at hello@circle-lab.com

To put the design solutions for building low-cost, low-energy, high-performance homes into the hands of every citizen and business on earth.
To use digitalisation to make it easier for existing industries to design, invest-in, manufacture and assemble better, more sustainable, more affordable homes for more people.
To grow a new, distributed housing industry, comprising many citizens, communities and small businesses developing homes and neighbourhoods for themselves, reducing our dependence on top-down, debt-heavy mass housing systems.

For more information about WikiHouse contact Ivar Diekerhof

ivar@woningbouwatelier.nl

Together with schoolchildren in Amsterdam we create vertical forests by planting trees on balconies.

Please check our website: <https://www.urbanstreetforest.com/> for more information about our foundation.

Urban Street Forest at TEDxMaastricht:

Urban Street Forest | TEDxMaastricht

Urban Street Forest on the NOS national news:

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How can technology help to unburden informal caregivers? What are the design opportunities?

For more information, please go to:

<http://www.digitallifecentre.nl/projecten/co-care-it>

Oproep: Kent u of bent u een mantelzorger en zou u willen deelnemen aan het onderzoek? Laat het ons weten via l.b.j.bosch [at] hva.nl

IRLL is a foundation including residential locations for research, development, implementation and education related to residential living of the future.

Visit our website at http://residentiallivinglab.org/

Please send your interest as partner, researcher or participant to <a>info@residentiallivinglab.org</a>

The Smart Kids Lab makes it possible for children to map their environment in a playful way, by using modern technology and instruments.

Want to experience the Smart Kids Lab yourself?

You can! Waag will be present at the Marineterrein Ontdekdagen on the 9th of September and everyone can join the measurements! We collect all the measurements of the day on one big map. Then it is possible to see what are the best spots to swim, play or read a book!

More info: waag.org/nl/event/ontdekdagen-marineterrein

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Check the article about the Smart Kids Lab featured in our online magazine 'Smart Stories':

Providing you practical tips and tricks to improve your living lab. Check out the publication in the link below!

Check the publication 'The Living Lab Way of Working' here.

In this project we want to understand in more detail how physical activity of city dwellers can be increased by using personalized app technology.

Project subsidised by:

• Nationaal Regieorgaan Praktijkgericht Onderzoek SIA RAAK-mkb
• NWO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)
• FAPESP (Sao Paolo research Foundation)

Video PAUL Project HvA

HvA Bewegen in de stad

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A conclusive approach for every status holder that enters the Amsterdam Approach to Asylum Status Holders.

De Gezonde Stad is a foundation that connects inhabitants, companies and local government within Amsterdam to create a more sustainable and healthy city. De Gezonde Stad initiated Park om de Hoek.

Temporary assignment.

Nano Clay for a sustainable future

HofmanDujardin was founded in 1999 by architects Barbara Dujardin and Michiel Hofman. The international team of architects, interior and visual designers work on a variety of architecture, renovation and interior design projects. The design philosophy of HofmanDujardin is Shaping Intuition®, a personal approach that creates inspiring and clear designs of high quality. Natural, intuitive feelings are subtly embodied in architecture, in interiors and in products. At HofmanDujardin, building in harmony with the natural human need for balance is central. Both design and process are characterized by a personal approach, astounding clarity, understated quality and energetic inspiration. The firm is located in the ancient harbor district of Amsterdam.

HofmanDujardin was founded in 1999 by architects Barbara Dujardin and Michiel Hofman. The international team of architects, interior and visual designers work on a variety of architecture, renovation and interior design projects. The design philosophy of HofmanDujardin is Shaping Intuition®, a personal approach that creates inspiring and clear designs of high quality. Natural, intuitive feelings are subtly embodied in architecture, in interiors and in products. At HofmanDujardin, building in harmony with the natural human need for balance is central. Both design and process are characterized by a personal approach, astounding clarity, understated quality and energetic inspiration. The firm is located in the ancient harbor district of Amsterdam.

Een plek voor ontmoeting en kennisdelen op gebied van duurzame maatschappelijke ontwikkeling

http://www.parool.nl/amsterdam/bouw-vumc-imaging-centrum-start-in-maart~a4248075/

<http://www.parool.nl/amsterdam/bouw-vumc-imaging-centrum-start-in-maart~a4248075/>

Impacting residents with a lower SES in Jeruzalem, Amsterdam Oost