Reinventing European Industrial Towns for a Bright Future
The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) Programme Group Urban Geographies is exploring the potential of small and medium-sized industrial towns in Europe through a project titled "Bright Future for Black Towns." The research aims to identify place-specific urban strategies that respect the unique qualities of these towns while addressing their strengths, needs, and expectations. Interdisciplinary approaches focus on uncovering hidden socio-cultural qualities and translating them into social innovations for resilience and sustainability. The project also aims to provide policy and research recommendations for urban governance and practitioners based on comparative research and social and institutional innovations.
- European Industrial Towns
- Urban Geographies
- Social Science Research
- Sustainable Development
- Place-specific Strategies
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Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) Programme Group Urban Geographies BRIGHT FUTURE Bright Future for Black Towns: reinventing European industrial towns and challenging dominant post-industrial discourses Marco Bontje - Programme Group Urban Geographies - University of Amsterdam M.A.Bontje@uva.nl
Main research question and aims / objectives Main RQ: how to adopt place-specific urban strategies for industrial towns in Europe by respecting their specificities, place-based qualities on the one hand (evolutionary view) and taking into consideration their strengths, needs and expectations on the other hand. Aims / objectives: - To know the socio-cultural qualities of small and medium- sized industrial towns (SMITs) - To translate their qualities into social innovations in order to adapt, to be resilient and sustainable - To discuss a new urban policy and research agenda tailored to SMITs 3
Approaches / methods Interdisciplinary research on hidden socio-cultural qualities within 5 case study towns in Europe: literature review, analysis of discourses / narratives (interviews, observations, policy documents, media etc.) Participatory transdisciplinary research on social innovations in case study towns and their applicability in other transitional towns (social sustainability assessment + series of workshops) 4
Expected results and impacts Comparative research of SMITs in different developmental contexts Social and institutional innovations aimed at supporting positive practices in SMITs Policy and research recommendations to urban governance and practitioners 5
What we did so far WP2 Systematisation and conceptualisation of the European SMIT: completed quantitative analysis industrial regions at European and national levels brief narrative of (post-)industrial past-present-future of countries and towns involved WP3 Comparative analysis of industrial towns transitions, specificities and narratives completed Further elaboration of narratives of industrial past-present-future of case study towns (Post-)Industrial semiotics: how the industrial tradition influences present-day visible elements (symbols) 6
and what still follows Completing WP4 Identifying social and institutional innovations in SMITs already done: social sustainability assessment + 3 workshops on social sustainability, earlier social innovations and ideas for new social innovations early June: meeting in Fieni (Romania to discuss preliminary results WP4 WP4 case study reports to be finalised end of June integrate case study reports in comparative report WP5 Recommendations for alternative urban development of SMITs 7
WP4 methodology: Social Sustainability Framework http://www.social- life.co/media/files/DESIGN_FOR_SOCIAL_SUSTAINABILITY_3.pdf Typ hier de footer 8
Follow us on Project website: https://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/project/bright-future/ ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/project/BRIGHT- FUTURE-Bright-future-for-black-towns-reinventing-European- industrial-towns-and-challenging-dominant-post-industrial- discourses 9
Question for JPI Urban Europe Can we make use of our JPI UE project site more actively? (we don t have another project site; except ResearchGate but that is mainly aimed at academics, less to broader audience?) For example to publish our WP reports, a blog series about our case study cities, maybe also presentations? (unfortunately some of our earlier questions about this have not been answered so far ?) 10
