Who’s afraid of co-creation?

CC BY-NC-SA Dado Cornejo

After three years of action research on community development in three different living labs of Brussels, our project comes to a close. Over seventy people attended the final visit and round table of the CitizenDev project. This audience was comprised of practitioners, civil servants, academics and engaged citizens. After learning about the nine building blocks implemented by the CitizenDev project guided by the principles of Asset-Based Community Development, the participants in the final round table of the project could chose some of the blocks as the methods they would like to use themselves. They chose 'self-management for residents', 'a place that is managed by residents' and ‘connecting people to each other’. And – a bit to my surprise - 'political interpellation'.

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