WeVlie: “A Service concept to promote connection between generations as a means to create strong and sustainable communities”

WeVlie: “A Service concept to promote connection between generations as a means to create strong and sustainable communities”

Del Conte, F.

Visser Sleeswijk, F. (mentor)
Celik, S. (mentor)
De Vries, A. (mentor)

Industrial Design Engineering

Design

2015-01-08

The province of Friesland, financially supported by the European union, is currently seeking innovative solutions to generate a creative ground for new opportunities, above all for young people that are prone to move away from the region. In this graduation project new ways of citizen participations are explored and a design solution to this problem is offered, with a major focus on reshaping the current relations between different generations in the islands of Vlieland. The following report provides an overview of the context, methods and final outcome of the WeVlie concept. This design project has been commissioned from the Province of Friesland and executed in collaboration with the community of Vlieland. In order to understand the province of Friesland and particularly the Vlieland community dynamics large part of the project have been dedicated to learn the community dynamics and gain empathy by immersion in the context. To do so an iterative and co-creative design approach called the “four cycle method” has been used in this project and resulted in the WeVlie concept. WeVlie is a service that connects Islanders from different generations with each other, matching their skills and interests. A “physical touch point” in the municipality of Vlieland enables the exchange to happen. Here Islanders can offer and request chores to their community without the involvement of money. WeVlie relies on typical human mechanisms of mutual support and represents a concrete tool for the Vlieland community to strength the connection of generations and embrace that sense of community that nowadays have got lost in the individualistic behaviours patterns. WeVlie is a case study for the Province of Friesland to investigate how social innovation services can succeed in promoting connection between generations, as a means to create strong sustainable communities.

Service design
Social innovation
Vlieland
Province of Friesland
Co-creation

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Campus only

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2015 Del Conte, F.