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Documents the history of the NDSM shipyard hangar in Amsterdam, a self-organized, self-financed space for small-scale manufacturing and arts community. As one of the initiators of the redevelopment of the former NDSM shipyard, Eva de Klerk gives a personal account of organizational processes, successes and tribulations, and complex relations with authorities

Pragmatics and pragmatism in
qualitative inquiry
Adri Smaling
American pragmatist philosophers, i.e.
Charles Peirce, William James, John
Dewey, Herbert Mead, have influenced
the methodology of qualitative research,
especially the grounded theory
approach and action research. In addition
Richard Rorty is mentioned. Some
of their ideas are discussed, such as
abduction, self, work, transaction,
symbolic interaction, role taking and
conversation.

The energy transition reflects fundamental changes in energy supply. During that transition, society also expects the high-quality nature of the energy supply to be maintained. The energy transition is therefore confusing and makes people have to deal with uncertainty. They not only experience changes in the energy supply, but also a change from a consumption paradigm (purchasing of energy) to an exploitation paradigm (self-generating and consumption of energy). The objective of the research is to gain insight into whether and how parties (public, private, citizens) are able to involve everyone in a community in the development of renewable energy production and consumption. The thesis' presents the 'analysis framework for steering on public value in sustainable development'. The framework shows what parties do to support the ambition of renewable energy for everyone. It is based, amongst others, on Elinor Ostrom's 'institutional analysis and development framework', on Mark Moore's work on public value, and on the collaborative governance philosophy, in particular Ansell & Gash's 'contingency model of collaborative governance'. The framework provides an instrument for recording and analyzing the input of diverse disciplines in public value creation and in this way combines policy development and system development. The ambition of 'renewable energy for everyone' implies that renewable energy is to be viewed as a 'common-pool resource', one type of goods according to Elinor Ostrom's typology of goods. It has two characteristics. One characteristic is that the use of a good by one is at the expense of the possibilities for the other to also use that good. The other characteristic is that excluding a party from a good is considered to be socially undesirable or unacceptable, and may therefore incur social costs. The analysis framework illustrates that public administrators are committed to ensure access to and developers are committed to unlock renewable energy. For evaluation purposes a 'two-dimensional public ...