On April 1st, we launched our platform in a special event that brought together over 50 academics, practitioners, and students from various disciplines to talk about citizen and community engagement, open research, and transdisciplinary approaches to research and practice. We were so happy to have colleagues and students, as well as practitioners and academics, sitting at the same table and engaging in thoughtful discussions about ethical dilemmas, methodological challenges, and personal contradictions inherent in participatory research and practice.
The event served as a dual milestone, celebrating the successful conclusion of the NWO-funded CIVILIAN project while officially launching Citizen Voice as a bottom-up TU Delft initiative. The event reflected on Citizen Voice’s journey, highlighting key insights, outcomes, and the collaborative efforts that made it possible. It also marked an exciting new beginning with the launch of our web platform, designed to extend the initiative’s impact by offering a space for continued learning, engagement, and collaboration.
We started with a welcoming lunch and an introductory presentation about Citizen Voice, the team, and the projects we have realised so far. This is followed by the core part of the event: A workshop to gather insights on barriers, enablers and trends in digital engagement, participatory planning and design, and transdisciplinary research and open science. The workshop insights will be published as a position paper led by the Citizen Voice team, to which all workshop participants contribute (🚨start tuned – we’ll share it soon). After the workshop, participants were also invited to explore Citizen Voice’s outputs through an exhibition.
Check out the pictures of the event and note how collegial the atmosphere was! 👇🏻💙
Juliana Gonçalves 