Rembang Regency is one of the regencies in Central Java that often experiences drought. Based on the results of the mapping of drought-prone areas for 2020 carried out by the Rembang Regency government, there are 63 villages spread across 14 sub-districts, 18,885 families are recorded as experiencing …

Sound Soils is a practice-oriented research initiative aimed at exploring opportunities for musicians to contribute to rural life in the Northern Netherlands, with a specific emphasis on participatory music practices. Grounded in Participatory Action Research methodology and ethnographic forms of data …

This article focusses on small-scale community-based care initiatives developed by citizens in small villages in rural areas in the Netherlands, with special attention to some interesting case studies in the North and South of the country. These initiatives will be contextualized. First, the demographic …

Knowledge Alliance for Social Innovation in Shrinking Villages W6.Kinesis is a Erasmus project that focusses on the exchange of knowledge, information and best practices on regions with population decline and the exchange of students. During this meeting we discussed continuation of the project and presented …

Dorpen in het Nationaal Park Drentsche Aa zijn zich bewust van de kwaliteit van hun omgeving. Tegelijkertijd werken deze dorpen aan lokale energieplannen. Daarbij worden veel resultaten gerealiseerd en lessen gedaan. Met zeven dorpen terug- en vooruitgekeken naar hun initiatieven zodat motieven, doelen, …

Results WP 6 Kinesis-project. Workpackage 6 is the wp that is responsible for the evaluation of the student-visits, the consortium and the co-creation process.

De dorpsvereniging van Westerbroek legt ieder 10 jaar wensen en verwachtingen van inwoners ten aanzien van de leefbaarheid van hun leefomgeving vast in een dorpsvisie om er vervolgens -waar mogelijk- ook mee aan de slag te gaan. Dit jaar -2023- is de laatste Dorpsvisie 2012-2022 aan opvolging toe door …

Hof van den Houte’ is the new name for a shopping and housing district in the present heart of Etten-Leur, once the site of a castle by the same name between the villages Etten and Leur. The site was still an open field when a modern freestanding shopping mall was built in the 1960s to serve the growing …

Solomon Islands has relied on highly unsustainable industrial logging since the 1980s. While the development narrative around logging emphasizes its macro-economic importance, it structurally overlooks the impacts on local people's lives. Based on 200 qualitative interviews conducted in 25 villages and …

Presentatie "Living labs: past, present & future" tijdens meeting van Knowledge alliance for Social Innovation in Shrinking villages (KINESIS)