Denk een Eindje Mee

Client: Gemeente Eindhoven Date: September 2020 - January 2021 Collaborators: Iris Bekkers, Lotte Sluijs, Remke Timmermans

What could the future of citizen participation look like? For the Municipality of Eindhoven, we built an installation for gathering input from citizens for future urban development projects, situated at the location of the plans.

We investigated how design can give substance to affording citizen participation as the exploration of needs and wishes with citizens. In this project, we joined the process of redesigning the Town Hall Square of Eindhoven by the local municipality. Their wish was to gather needs and wishes from ‘unusual suspects’ with regards to the future of the square. We designed and tested an interactive, situated installation with which citizens could explore their view of the future square through bodily movements. These movements were translated into 3D shapes using a Microsoft Kinect and displayed in real-time on a one-way mirror. In a later IASDR publication, we highlighted three design qualities of the installation that facilitated exploration: continuous reshaping, unfamiliarity and ambiguity, and situatedness.

This project was graded with an Excellent, with compliments from the project client (Eindhoven Municipality)

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