On this page, you can find an overview of the Centre for BOLD Cities' current projects. Please visit the project pages for more detailed information on the projects and team members.
Digital Technologies & the Symbolic Trajectories of Urban Neighborhoods (SYMTRA)
How do local residents, civil servants and visitors understand and use digital technologies in relation to the symbolic trajectories of urban neighborhoods? The city is a site of uneven development, which leads not just to an uneven allocation of resources and power imbalances, but to status
SHARED Data for Improved Emergency Relief in High-Rise Buildings
How can collected data from different stakeholders before and during a disaster help to improve emergency relieve? Is it possible to use big, open and linked data to improve emergency relief? Dutch cities are complex and dense urban environments, making them particularly vulnerable to urban
Can we create an inclusive school setting with and for adolescents with autism during their unstructured leisure time at school? Is it possible to increasing the quality and quantity of social participation with their peers by changing the pysical environment? School leisure time is where ‘it
The Dutch government and public libraries collaborate closely in projects to enhance people’s digital skills. With 2,5 million people in the Netherlands being functionally illiterate, the digitization ambitions of the Dutch government run the risk of social failure, as a significant part of the
Big Data and Citizen Engagement in Urban Health Labs
In a continuously urbanising world, the notion of the experimental city has become part of popular discourse. Local policymakers, politicians, companies and (semi-)public service providers and citizens are engaging in urban experiments to find local solutions for global problems, such as health
Earlier research has shown that media use among young people can be associated with self-expression, the development of one’s identity, and identifying oneself with various groups. This PhD research project, which is part of the Erasmus Initiative Vital Cities and Citizens, focuses on the media
Boundary Management of Private Spaces in a Public Safety Context
In co-operation with the City of Rotterdam, CESAM initiated the research project ‘Managing privacy in a smart city‘. In response to rapidly expanding possibilities for smart urban governance through big data, privacy concerns are emerging both among citizens and government actors. Questions arise in
'Data empowerment in the smart city' is a project that the Centre for BOLD Cities develops in cooperation with the Data Alliance Rotterdam-Erasmus (DARE) and the Knowledge Lab Urban Big Data. Its aim is to increase citizens' awareness of the datafication of the public space and of the possible
The Centre for BOLD Cities has received funding from the Dutch National Research Agenda (NWA) for the research project ‘Big data for youth policy’. The project revolves around the possible use of big, open and linked data for determining how to recover ‘invisible youth’, i.e. unemployed
Jouw buurt, jouw data (Your neighbourhood, your data) is the Centre for BOLD Cities' research game (or gamified survey), designed to gain insights in the data awareness of Dutch citizens. At the same time, the game serves to increase this awareness. The game was developed as the 2018 national
