Remaining weeks on site: specifying research
Introduction
We are currently in the last stage of our research, specifying our objectives and trying to gather as much information as possible on site. Besides the fact that we prioritize data gathering and not (significant less) graphic production, as our blog indicates, we need more time to verify important information. We’ve been addressing in depth interviews the issues of cultural influences on spatial planning (grass-root culture) and how/if (international) aid in the form of post-disaster responses could help develop urban vitality. A lot of this information is subjective and can be verified with sources of information, so we’ve been gathering local data in the form of reports/books/investigations etc. Our goal is to keep expanding our network that could be helpful for our specific objectives and use the time and facilities in the Netherlands during the post-production phase to process them in greater detail.
Actors
The collaboration, positive or negative, between different key-actors has repetitively shown to be very influential for the ‘successes’ or ‘failures’ of responses and incentives. We organize the actors in:
- NGO > incentives on a communal level
- Habitants/people > organized communities, individualism
- National government > decentralizing > institutions for regulations
- Local government > (financial) capacity > distribution and prioritization
- Church > influence, preference/trust from civilians
- Private (stakeholders) > obtaining/developing land, small incentives
We’ve been talking to people affiliated to all actor groups but lack information about the role of church. We aim to strengthen this contact within the coming days. Besides establishing contact we came to understand that it’s important to understand how and for whom people look for/rely on leadership (grass-root culture).
Surveys/workshops
In remaining weeks we are currently setting up workshops and continuing to process and develop more surveys. With these tools we aim to document: specific information, reach out to a lot of actors/visions and cultural perspectives. For example with the surveys we’ll try to get a clear picture about the cultural perspective on leadership and about awareness among people.
Case Studies
Mejicanos is our case study which provided a lot of information for our contemporary analysis. With this we are able to understand more and more about incentives, dependence to the city center/connectivity and vulnerability. A couple of issues we want to point out at this moment are:
- social problems
- land rights (owner)
- environmental issues
- risk reduction
- politics
In the case study of Santa Tecla we investigate the ‘migration’ of people, from the emergency phase to transitional and permanent settlements. The incentives and the reasons why people choose to migrate to certain places are key. We are critical on the way opportunities for future development (especially economical and educational) are integrated in urban planning. We’ll have to investigate the vision on these topics from the planners, so we plan to have more in-depth interviews with involved Municipalities, architects and NGOs.
For the case study CHSS (Downtown: Centro Historico San Salvador) we investigate the non-psychical, with the focus on gaining cultural perspective. For example:
- Political: the process of obtaining building permissions to develop/construct.
- Economical: city/country dependence, public space occupation by vendors
- Development: area of focus and growth to suburbia
We aim to have a more detailed description and simplistic illustration soon as well as more of our documents online.
We are currently in the last stage of our research, specifying our objectives and trying to gather as much information as possible on site. Besides the fact that we prioritize data gathering and not (significant less) graphic production, as our blog indicates, we need more time to verify important information. We’ve been addressing in depth interviews the issues of cultural influences on spatial planning (grass-root culture) and how/if (international) aid in the form of post-disaster responses could help develop urban vitality. A lot of this information is subjective and can be verified with sources of information, so we’ve been gathering local data in the form of reports/books/investigations etc. Our goal is to keep expanding our network that could be helpful for our specific objectives and use the time and facilities in the Netherlands during the post-production phase to process them in greater detail.
Actors
The collaboration, positive or negative, between different key-actors has repetitively shown to be very influential for the ‘successes’ or ‘failures’ of responses and incentives. We organize the actors in:
- NGO > incentives on a communal level
- Habitants/people > organized communities, individualism
- National government > decentralizing > institutions for regulations
- Local government > (financial) capacity > distribution and prioritization
- Church > influence, preference/trust from civilians
- Private (stakeholders) > obtaining/developing land, small incentives
We’ve been talking to people affiliated to all actor groups but lack information about the role of church. We aim to strengthen this contact within the coming days. Besides establishing contact we came to understand that it’s important to understand how and for whom people look for/rely on leadership (grass-root culture).
Surveys/workshops
In remaining weeks we are currently setting up workshops and continuing to process and develop more surveys. With these tools we aim to document: specific information, reach out to a lot of actors/visions and cultural perspectives. For example with the surveys we’ll try to get a clear picture about the cultural perspective on leadership and about awareness among people.
Case Studies
Mejicanos is our case study which provided a lot of information for our contemporary analysis. With this we are able to understand more and more about incentives, dependence to the city center/connectivity and vulnerability. A couple of issues we want to point out at this moment are:
- social problems
- land rights (owner)
- environmental issues
- risk reduction
- politics
In the case study of Santa Tecla we investigate the ‘migration’ of people, from the emergency phase to transitional and permanent settlements. The incentives and the reasons why people choose to migrate to certain places are key. We are critical on the way opportunities for future development (especially economical and educational) are integrated in urban planning. We’ll have to investigate the vision on these topics from the planners, so we plan to have more in-depth interviews with involved Municipalities, architects and NGOs.
For the case study CHSS (Downtown: Centro Historico San Salvador) we investigate the non-psychical, with the focus on gaining cultural perspective. For example:
- Political: the process of obtaining building permissions to develop/construct.
- Economical: city/country dependence, public space occupation by vendors
- Development: area of focus and growth to suburbia
We aim to have a more detailed description and simplistic illustration soon as well as more of our documents online.
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