Neighbourhood Interactor Tools

As creative producer for Face Your World by Jeanne van Heeswijk encourages youngsters, parents, neighbours to develop a critical opinion about their own home environment. Face Your World stimulates all ages to influence and to participate in the process of city renewal, and to show that their opinion is relevant. As a result of this process youngsters will get a clear view of their world. Face Your World consist of a tailor made educational program on location. Exploring (getting to know the neighbourhood and its users), Sketching (drawing down ideas and wishes for change) and Consulting (discussing with others to create a collective understanding of place) form its basis.

To assist this the Interactor tools has been developed especially as a unique tool. This piece of multi-user tools enables youngsters to rebuild their world with their own imagination, creativity and arguments. The created environment is a photographic three-dimensional representation of their neighbourhood, which enables the user to see the result of its modification instantly. The tools and accompanying series of workshops combines urban renewal, graphic art, design, communication and philosophy. Face Your World can be used for educational purposes, but also for governmental processes. Face Your World is a new educational means of participating in urban renewal.

Slotervaart Process

How can the  multicultural neighborhoods publicly co-create the better public domain?

Urbanlab Slotervaart the learning environment was part of a public process, creating a space that functions as a physical place for meeting, exchanging ideas and dialogue. It provides a hub where plans for the neighbourhood’s future can be formulated together with local residents and other interested parties, as well as for the personal role that they see in this. Face Your World has therefore evolved into a process of ‘inclusive urban planning’ that strives to interrelate a number of complex issues, such as urban renewal, practical education, neighbourhood participation and the role of art in public space within the concrete context of a design task.

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