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1. Strijp-S
CHALLENGE: Hack the Regeneration
Question: How can media
technologies be utilised to create a
neighbourhood-feeling between
Strijp-S and the areas around it?
Drents Dorp
CHALLENGE: Hack the Motivation
Question: How to build a community
through a communal design and
transformation process of a local
sports park?
Gloeilampplantsoen
CHALLENGE: Hack the Ownership
Question: How to turn the
Gloeilampplantsoen into a place that
serves the interest of the general
public again?
SCHEDULE
MONDAY 19 OCT
9:00 Start
09:30-09:45 Introduction
09:45-10.30 'Civic City’ by NPK Design
10:30-12:30 Tour du Eindhoven
12:30-13:30 Lunch Oude Rechtbank
13:30-14:00 Hackathon Challenges
14:30-15:30 Hacktime!
15:30-17:00 Intermezzo 1
17:00-17:30 Hacktime!
17:30-19:00 Intermezzo 2
19:00-20:00 Dinner at van Piet
TUESDAY 20 OCT
9:00 Coffee and walk-in
09:30-11:30 Intermezzo 3
11:30-12:30 Lunch Oude Rechtbank
12:30-16:00 Hacktime!
16:00-17:00 Finishing touch
17:00-18:00 Dinner Oude Rechtbank
18:00-20:00 Public Pitches and Drinks
You can sign up for mealsupon arrival
Mondaymorning:
Lunch: Oude Rechtbank: € 8.50*
Dinner: Monday € 15.00* (incl. 2 drinks)
/ Tuesday € 19.00*
* No additional costs for official congress
participants
CREATIVE ENGINE
The workshop will be lead by the
Creative Engine made up of three
Young Professional Planners (YPPs)
selected by the ISOCARP
organisation from a pool of 150
international applicants: Tessa
Steenkamp , Carlo Francesco Capra
& Erin Kelly.
CONTACT
Oude Rechtbank T 040 720 0934
hacktheneighbourhood@gmail.com
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Workshop Location
Oude Rechtbank
Stratumseind 32
5611 ET Eindhoven
P Parking garage
Q park Stadhuisplein
B Bus Stops
Stadhuisplein
Smalle Haven
Railway Station
WHERE TO GO
DRENTS DORP
GLOEILAMPPLANTSOEN
STRIJP-S
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WORKSHOP HACK THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, part of the ISOCARP 2015 Congress
Hosted by Brabant Academy

2. Challenge Hack the Regeneration
HOW CAN MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES BE
UTILISED TO CREATE A
NEIGHBOURHOOD-FEELING
BETWEEN STRIJP-S AND THE AREAS
AROUND IT?
Challenger: Baltan Laboratories
As occupants of the Natlab building, Baltan
Laboratories is situated on the border between
two very different neighbourhoods. The Natlab is
part of the ‘trendy’ Strijp-S area, but looks out
over a less designed neighbourhood, Drents Dorp,
which used to be resided by the workers of the
Philips factories. It seems like there is no or little
interaction between the two neighbourhoods once
so closely connected. Could media technologies be
utilised to created a neighbourhood-feeling
between Strijp-S and the areas around it?
1.Is this observation true? Is there no interaction
between the two areas, or is it just not visible?
2.Can a method be found to support this
interaction? Are there ideas or technologies that
narrow the gap between the social, economic and
cultural differences? Is there a way to create the
‘we’-feeling?
Challenge Hack the Ownership
HOW TO TURN THE
GLOEILAMPPLANTSOEN INTO A
PLACE THAT SERVES THE INTEREST OF
THE GENERAL PUBLIC AGAIN?
Challenger: Vincent Wittenberg,
Vrienden van het Gloeilampplantsoen
Behind one of Holland's most ‘notorious’ train
stations, there is an empty lot that used to be
known as the Gloeilampplantsoen, or ‘Light-bulb
Park’. The park is part of the collective memory of
Eindhoven, and essential to the city’s history. It’s
situated right next to Strijp-S: the area that tells
the story of Eindhoven becoming a big city through
the growth of lightbulb manufacturer Philips. The
name is also reflected in a lightbulb-shaped
network of walking paths.
Designer Vincent Wittenbergh started a series of
interventions in 2012. Together with designers
Cindy vd Bremen, Berry Sanders and Ellen de Vries
he reactivated the former park by mowing the
lightbulb shaped path, making it accessible to the
public again. He founded the ‘Vrienden van het
Gloeilamppark’, or ‘Friends of the Lightbulb Park’
together with local residents. Together, they
restored the old walkways, and cleaned out the
park.
When the landowner was arrested for fraud, the
park was put up for auction. The friends squatted
the park to show investors that the park is not a
forgotten piece of land. The city council was
planning to place a bid. However, behind the
scenes, a deal was made, and the land is now
owned by a another investor. By zoning laws, the
developer won’t be able to build on the land.
Knowing this, how can we deal with this impasse in
a clever way, and find a new, social function for
the park? The right strategy might be 'temporary',
but still meaningful for locals, and if played smart,
also for landowner.
Challenge Hack the Motivation
HOW TO BUILD A COMMUNITY
THROUGH A COMMUNAL DESIGN
AND TRANSFORMATION PROCESS
OF A LOCAL SPORTS PARK?
Challenger: Rob van der Wijst
Neighbourhood Drents Dorp was originally built
in 1920, to accommodate the new workers
attracted by Philips. The electronics company
was in charge of the project, and only well-
behaved employees of Philips were selected as
residents. Currently, a local corporation is in
charge of renting out the houses, and the social
composition of residents has changed
tremendously, which is leading to social
problems, and decline in social cohesion.
The last few years, local professionals and local
residents have initiated projects with ‘community
building’ as main goal. This lead to successful
activities in the neighbourhood. Still, a relatively
small amount of people became active residents.
Eventually, this passivity led to the ending of the
neighbourhood football club.
After trying to revive the football club and other
amenities in the local sports park, the
municipality decided to transform the facility into
an urban sports park. Some - already active -
residents proposed to guide a design and build
process in which all residents of Drents Dorp
would have the opportunity to be involved.
But, how do you actually motivate people to take
part in this process? And, once the
transformation of the sports park is completed,
how do you keep people involved in managing it?
HACK THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Challenges
Workshop participants will work on concrete bottom-up solutions
to three local challenges submitted by local organisations and
designers for post-industrial Philips' neighbourhoods and industrial
sites. The theme of the challenges is how to react when traditional
industries move away.

3. Intermezzo 1
COLLABORATIVE TOOLS AND
PROCESSES Working from Within
How have you explored the ‘potential of
participation’? What was your process for re-
articulating a collective ‘problem’? How
motivate for participation when the network
or consequence is invisible, or the impacted
stakeholders are not yet motivated? What
are the limits of a participatory process?
What are the methods of building cross
connections? Why work from within? How
does this method incorporate dynamic
knowledge transfer?
Authors: Wei Xu (Analysis on the Integrated
Development System), Anne van Strien
(Reinventing Eindhoven from Within) Pablo
Martinez-Diez (Atnight Project), Dorota
Kamrowska-Zaluska (Social Change from the
Solidarity)
What is your experience with participation
and connections?
Intermezzo 2
CROSS CONNECTIONS What Happens
When Industry Moves Away?
What are the elements of impact that
industry and the migration of industry have
upon cities and regions? What do these
common ingredients suggest for the future of
planning?
Authors: Naniek Priyomarsono (Revitalization
of Batik Business), Xiaodi Guo (Exploration of
Industrial Transformation), Yan Lin (Research
on Revival Method)
Has your city encountered similar challenges?
Have you been involved in such
transformations?
Intermezzo 3
RITUALISED SPACE Methods
How has the creation of new rituals shifted
perception from within? What is the role of
ritual in the reinvigoration of cities? What
role does pride (personal, collective) play in
having a future-oriented dialogue?
Authors: Amira Ahmad (History and Rebirth),
Paul Grover (Liverpool), Jie Liu (Generation
Mechanism)
What are your experiences and thoughts on
these questions?
HACK THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Intermezzos
Short bursts of facilitated dialogue on working methods and
insight from the Congress papers, intended to introduce
methods and lessons learnt from other cities, and from
‘industries’ beyond planning.