Multifunctional Intensive Land Use – A Practitioner's Guide

MILUnet 3 rd Draft Practitioners Guide
MILU METHODOLOGY
MILUNET activities are centred around 2 series of bi-annual network
workshops in different regions. Workshops start with a seminar,
followed by a study visit to the case study areas selected by the Host
partner and an implementation laboratory. Meetings are well prepared
with documentary papers and studies, and are structured in such a way
that it will provide all partners, but in particular host partners, with
practical suggestions for dealing with MILU problems. At each
workshop relevant reference cases of other partners are presented.
These cases are dealing with similar problems and/or provide useful
solutions and are inspirational input for the Implementation Lab.
Implementation Lab
Core of the 3 days workshop is the Implementation Lab. The
Implementation Lab is meant to give momentum to a local/regional
project, by implementing MILU concepts into practice. The
Implementation Lab is a ‘Laboratory’ or ‘Pressure Cooker’. All partners
work together with the Host partner on a regional MILU case, for which
the Host partner is responsible. The ‘real problem’ situation will seduce
the MILUnet partners to produce the best of their knowledge on MILU.
The need to help solve a practice problem will tap off the maximum of
the partnerships know how. The case area is an area in the region of
the Host partner that will go through a (re)development process with
special opportunities for MILU solutions.
The Laboratory is an interactive session in which stakeholders in the
region of the Host partner will work together on the spot with the
MILUNET project partners and members of the Innovation Board. The
main goal is to go a step forward in the process of realization and come
to recommendations for the case area. This includes spatial solutions,
environmental risk management concepts, architectural ideas, solutions
for social problems and crime prevention, process organisation,
financing and policy strategies.
Six considerations
Aim of the MILUnet Implementation Lab is to investigate as a group
both new and persistent urban problems as they relate to Multifunctional
and Intensive Land Use (MILU).
MILUnet Implementation Labs focus on six considerations, that
integrate social, economical, political, structural and ecological issues
and have been developed to think “out of the box”:
Identity
Do the project areas have their own identity? How can this identity be
enhanced and improved? Are there local aspirations that can be
capitalised?
Critical Mass
Does each site have the development, infrastructure and resident
population to maintain a coherent community? What additional
elements are needed to reach and support desired critical mass?
Connections
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