Diffused Campus Saint Gilles Collaborative services in a campus environment diffused in an urban area...

Challenges

An 'average neighborhood' with mixed feeling... ...and nothing outstanding or specific!

Diffused Campus Saint-Gilles

Opportunities

30 schools from kindergardens to universities and more than 10 000 students for only 5 000 inhabitants...

Diffused Campus Saint-Gilles

Overall concept Diffused Campus Saint-Gilles

...a "Diffused Campus"... a campus environment diffused in the urban area...

a new identity for the neighbourhood... a starting point to regenerate social fabric...

Project brief

•  Collaborative services between students and inhabitants... •  Public services and identity leveraging on campus dynamic... ...to improve quality of local life and sustainability in the neighbourhood.

Diffused Campus Saint-Gilles

Methodology

•  Investigating social initiatives likely to support a diffuse campus; •  Generating a Diffused Campus identity; •  Prompting social conversation with local stakeholders; •  Consolidating scenarios of collaborative and public services; •  Visualizing a mosaic scenario;

Diffused Campus Saint-Gilles

Action plan • 03/11/11 Introducing Saint-Gilles, discussing problems and opportunities... • 15/11/11 Looking for cases of social innovation in Liège and elsewhere... • 17/11/11 Reviewing and clustering... • 22/11/11 Building on the concept of "Diffused Campus"... • 01/12/11 First set of interview-cards... • 06/12/11 Reviewing interview cards... • 08/12/11 Reviewing interview cards... • 15/12/11 Interview-cards presentation and evaluation... • 10/12/12 Graphic Identity exercise and Diffused Campus logo; • 11/01/12 Day in Liège: visits, interviews and ideas marketplace + review Nik Baerten; • 18/01/12 Visit debriefing + Graphic Identity selection + video-sketch shooting

preparation; • 24/01/12 Text correction and background video-sketch; • 25/01/12 Collaborative services video shooting; • 26/01/12 Designing diffused Campus services and identity... • 31/01/12 Pictures selection; • 01/02/12 Day in Liège: co-design of Collaborative Services + pictures for Diffused

Campus public services; • 07/02/12 Pre-presentation of Diffused Campus public service animations; • 15/02/12 Final presentation + review Nik Baerten;

Diffused Campus Saint-Gilles

Future scenario

•  Video-Sketches presenting Collaborative services from user point of view; •  Animatics presenting Diffused Campus Saint-Gilles; •  A map/model of the neighborhood presenting the "mosaic scenario"...

Diffused Campus Saint-Gilles

Design role

•  investigate social innovations... •  facilitate social conversation... •  envision a collective projection...

Diffused Campus Saint-Gilles