NEIGHBOURHOOD INVENTORY SOCIAL INITIATIVES – URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
In this module, you will learn to analyse a neighbourhood in order to substantiate your development plans for the area. This neighbourhood inventory is part of the Urban Development project at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.
The module is intended for second-year students of Real Estate.
You will work together with other students on an inventory of social initiatives in a Rotterdam neighbourhood. Think of places like community centres, playground associations or homeless shelters. These places often also have a social function because they are important meeting places for people and form the image of the social-physical infrastructure in the neighbourhood. Each team is assigned a number of initiatives to investigate. You gather information about these initiatives via desk research, fieldwork in the neighbourhood or via a (telephone) interview. In this way, you learn how to conduct interviews, become familiar with GIS methods and learn the tricks of doing fieldwork. The results of the interviews provide insight into the social networks connected to the location.
The information that you collect will be added into a digital collection portal. This portal is an online map of Rotterdam on which you will fill in the results of interviews and link them to corresponding locations. In this way, all the information comes together on one large GIS map of the social-physical infrastructure in six Rotterdam neighbourhoods. The results are visible to other students in real time. Using this rich common source of knowledge, you make a neighbourhood analysis, which you use to strengthen your policy advice for the area's development. You will also draw up a development plan for an empty building in the neighbourhood, using the data from the neighbourhood inventory.
FACTS
- Start design project: Q1
- Duration: quarter
- Credits: Part of the subject Urban Development - 8 ECTS
- Maximum number of students: 200
- Responsible supervisors: Ir. Maarten van der Maas, Ir. Marthe van Gils
- In collaboration with: Expertisecentrum Maatschappelijke Innovatie (EMI)
