The Designing Rhythms of Social Resilience is a collaboration between the Municipality of Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), and Habidatum. Its main research question is "How can we design urban rhythms for social resilience in the face of global challenges?"
This research aims to identify of methods of analyses of rhythms, intervention in rhythms and it wants to formulate how rhythm analyses is a new resource for urban policymaking. The research group aims to work with several data sources and analytical methods, and to make bridges between movement mobile phone big data and ethnographic research techniques, in order to better recognise, represent and approach the multiple layered experiences in cities.
Here is the project space, the international collaborators and the core DRSR core research team share their progress documents and (in-between) findings:
https://openresearch.amsterdam/en/page/65670/drsr-international
This is also the TU Delft summary:
https://www.tudelft.nl/io/onderzoek/technology/designing-rhythms-for-social-resilience-drsr
The project focuses on the case of Zuidoost, a district of Amsterdam, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project aims to develop rhythm understanding of different types of places in Amsterdam Zuidoost further by studying actual place visit patterns changing with time. The data sources that were combined for this purpose, in the end, were (all GDPR-compliant):
The pandemic affected the rhythms of urban life in several ways:
The main thesis of the research is that policy-making for lockdowns could be based on the recognition of the rhythms of people, communities, and public spaces.
https://openresearch.amsterdam/en/page/65670/drsr-international