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Table 1 Qualities and results of an enabling infrastructure for TD projects

From: Evaluative and enabling infrastructures: supporting the ability of urban co-production processes to contribute to societal change

 

Training

Facilitation

Spatial support

1. Qualities

• Reflexive and open interactions

• Iterative and adaptive processes

• Theoretical and practical foundations

• Relationship based on trust

• Support structures tailored to specific project needs

• Open access to ‘neutral’ and highly skilled facilitators

• Unaligned location

• Capacity of allowing through design

• Dignity through negotiation of spaces

2. Examples

• Open Research School

• Open Method Seminars

• Knowledge Transfer Programme

• Facilitation advice

• Tailored facilitation of processes

• Facilitation workshops

• A specific KLIP House

• ‘Edge-scapes’ of new societal spaces

3. Results

• Critical mass of trained and skilled individuals in TD CP approaches

• Multiple experiences of facilitated processes with high levels of interactions, efficiency and trust

• Systematic documentation of facilitation experiences

• Scalar shift from the specific and particular ‘safe’ spaces to collective or generic spaces, open to new institutional and urban possibilities

4. Effects

• Bridge from first order to second order effects

• Bridge from first to second order effects

• Possible effects of third order