Charging the Commons
| Organisation | Role | Description |
| Knowledge Institutions | | |
| Lectoraat Civic Interaction Design (HvA, Faculteit Digitale Media & Creatieve Industrie) | Dr. Martijn de Waal (Lector); Wouter Meys (Project Manager) | Civic Interaction Design is an interdisciplinary research group at the Amsterdam University of Applied sciences that manages research and education programs in the fields of playful interaction, virtual reality and civic media. Researchers in our group explore both the design process of these new technologies, as well as their application and societal impact. |
| Lectoraat Situated Art & Design (Avans Hogeschool) | Dr. Michel van Dartel (Lector); Tara Karpinski (researcher-designer); Cecilia Hendrikx (researcher) | The professorship examines our rapidly changing society from the premise that people are situated beings: they are the product of their relationships with their environment. |
| SME Partners | | |
| Crowdbuilding | Field Lab partner | Crowdbuilding is a developer of civic areas based on social capital. Building communities plays a key role in developing a living environment. By means of online technology, inhabitants are actively involved in the development and design processes of the buildings and the neighborhood. |
| Dark Matter Labs | Transfersite partner | Dark Matter Labs is focussed on the great transitions our societies need to respond to the technological revolution and climate breakdown we face. Our aim is to discover, design and develop the institutional ‘dark matter’ that supports a more democratic, distributed and sustainable future. |
| Metabolic | Field Lab partner | Metabolic is a consultancy agency and incubator in the field of circular energy. |
| Space & Matter | Field Lab partner | Space and Matter is an architectural firm with a focus on circularity and community. |
| Stipo | Community of Practice partners | Stipo is a public developer involved in circular projects and neighborhood reorganisations in which energy streams play an important role. |
| ThingsCon | Community of Practice partners | ThingsCon is a global initiative to explore and promote the development of fair, responsible, and human-centric technologies for the IoT and beyond. |
| Waag | Community of Practice partners | Waag is a Future Lab for technology and society. Technology is not neutral. Waag reinforces critical reflection on technology, develops technological and social design skills, and encourages social innovation. |
| De Warren | Transfersite | The group uses its knowledge and experience to realize a housing cooperative for the Amsterdammers of today and tomorrow. De Warren wants to realize an affordable future, one in which there is room for care for each other, for the environment and the city. |
| Organisations aimed at disseminating knowledge within SME’s in creative industries | | |
| Media Architecture Institute | Knowledge & Dissemination partner | The Media Architecture Institute is a non-profit organisation designed to complement the work of established universities and research institutions with a flexible but very focused research activity linking industry, education and academia together. |
| Pakhuis de Zwijger | Knowledge & Dissemination partner | Pakhuis de Zwijger is an independent platform aimed at the transition towards a sustainable society. They also develop programs around the urgent and complex civic dilemmas of this day and age. |
| Het Nieuwe Instituut | Knowledge & Dissemination partner | Het nieuwe instituut is the national institute for architecture, design and digital culture. |
| Planbureau voor de leefomgeving, PBL | Knowledge & Dissemination partner | PBL is the national institute for strategic policy analysis in the field of environment, nature and space. PBL improves the quality of political decisions by research, analysis and evaluation with an integral approach. In the past couple of years the PBL has conducted several studies around circularity and smart cities. |
| Sector associations | | |
| Commons Network | Community of Practice partners | Commons Network is a collaboratory for the social and ecological transition. |
| Dutch Blockchain Coalition | Community of Practice partners | The Dutch Blockchain Coalition (DBC) is a cooperative association of affiliates from governmental authorities, centres of expertise and the commercial sector. |
| Dutch Digital Agencies (DDA) | Community of Practice partners | Dutch Digital Agencies (DDA) connects and represents the best digital agencies in the Netherlands. |
Circulate
| Organisation | Role | Description |
| Executives | ||
| Lectoraat Play & Civic Media (HvA, Faculteit Digitale Media & Creatieve Industrie) | Researchers: Dr. Martijn de Waal (Lector, inhoudelijk eindverantwoordelijk) Dr. Gabriele Ferri (Senior Researcher) Prof. dr. Ben Schouten (Lector) | The Play and Civic media lectorate researches the ways in which civilians use digital media to organise themselves around societal themes like energy production. Within their research the lectorate frequently uses research through design methods from a humanist perspective. |
| Citizen Data Lab (HvA, Faculteit Digitale Media & Creatieve Industrie) | Project coordinator Wouter Meys (labcoordinator) | The Citizen Data Lab performs practice-oriented research on data and citizenship: by using participatory methods and co-creation the Citizen Data Lab researches how datasets can be analysed and visualised in order to promote the legal capacity of citizens, thereby realising a bottom-up smart city. The Citizen Data Lab enables researches of various lectorates (like Visual Methodologies and Play and Civic media) to collaborate. |
| Knowledge Institutions | ||
| Lectorate Urban Analytics (HvA, Faculty of Digital Media & Creative Industries) | Researcher Dr. Nanda Piersma (Lector) | The Lectorate Urban Analytics researches how ICT and Big Data can provide insights into problems and can help in the development of new solutions for challenges faced in big cities. |
| Lectorate Digital Life (HvA, Faculty of Digital Media & Creative Industries) | Researcher Dr. Nazli Cila (senior onderzoeker) | The Digital Life Centre is a research lab at the Hva. We are centred around sensors and digital information in daily life. We perform applied research into technology, data and design methods. The region of Amsterdam functions as our ‘living lab’. |
| Lectorate Moneylab (Institute of Network Cultures) | Researcher Inte Gloerich | Moneylab is a research direction within the Institute of Network Cultures aimed at the connection between digital culture, financial activism and modern art with a special focus on Blockchain Technology. |
| SME Partners | ||
| Metabolic | Field Lab partner | Metabolic is a consultancy agency and incubator in the field of circular energy. |
| Enki Energie | Field Lab partner | Enki Energy is specialised in small-scale biodigestion. |
| Spectral | Field Lab partner | Spectral develops technological solutions that promote the evolution of smart energy networks. |
| Cafe de Ceuvel | Field Lab partner | Cafe de Ceuvel is a cafe that collaborates with external partners to offer food and beverages based on the principles of circular economy. They also disseminate these principles to a large audience. |
| Space & Matter | Field Lab partner & Transfersite: can apply insights from the research to their practices. | Space and Matter is an architectural firm with a focus on circularity and community. |
| Crowdbuilding | Field Lab partner & Transfersite: can apply insights from the research to their practices. | Crowdbuilding is a developer of civic areas based on social capital. Building communities plays a key role in developing a living environment. By means of online technology, inhabitants are actively involved in the development and design processes of the buildings and the neighborhood. |
| Stipo | Transfersite | Stipo is a public developer involved in circular projects and neighborhood reorganisations in which energy streams play an important role. |
| One Architecture | Knowledge & Dissemination partner | One Architecture is an agency for architecture and urbanism specialised in a.o. resilient design. |
| Organisations aimed at disseminating knowledge within SME’s in creative industries | ||
| Pakhuis de Zwijger | Knowledge & Dissemination partner | Pakhuis de Zwijger is an independent platform aimed at the transition towards a sustainable society. They also develop programs around the urgent and complex civic dilemmas of this day and age. |
| Stadslab Buiksloterham Circulair | Knowledge & Dissemination partner | A knowledge and network organisation of the inhabitants, institutions and SME’s which are active in Buiksloterham around the theme of circular economy. |
| Het Nieuwe Instituut | Knowledge & Dissemination partner | Het nieuwe instituut is the national institute for architecture, design and digital culture. |
| Branchevereniging Nederlandse Architectenbureaus | Knowledge & Dissemination partner | An association of almost 1200 architectural firms, BNA is a network that promotes modern and creative entrepreneurship with the power architecture has on the living environment as their main motive. |
| Public Institutions | ||
| Planbureau voor de leefomgeving, PBL | Knowledge & Disseminationpartner Dr. ir. Ton Dassen | PBL is the national institute for strategic policy analysis in the field of environment, nature and space. PBL improves the quality of political decisions by research, analysis and evaluation with an integral approach. In the past couple of years the PBL has conducted several studies around circularity and smart cities. |
| CTO Office Municipality of Amsterdam | Knowledge & Disseminationpartner Sladjana Mijatovic (Program Manager Circular Economy & Innovation at City of Amsterdam) | The CTO-office of the municipality of Amsterdam promotes civic innovation in areas such as e-health, circular economy and the sharing economy in collaboration with start-ups. |