Tussen straat en systeem
Robin de Lange is developing immersive training for key professionals who deal with homeless people in their daily work. Participants experience just how complex everyday life on the streets can be, and practise handling situations where people react with distrust, confusion, anger or withdrawal. Language and cultural differences add a further layer of challenge. The training is aimed at neighbourhood police officers, library staff, youth workers and community coaches, among others. For this group, dealing effectively with homeless people is part of everyday practice. Source: public summaries phase 1, RVO
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Onzichtbare Helden: immersive buurttraining voor collectief handelen in crises
Invisible Heroes is a mixed reality neighbourhood training in which residents experience a crisis in their own area together. Using a VR headset, they see digital crisis information about their own street, for example during a prolonged power outage, flooding or a heatwave. Together, they practise the role they and their neighbours can play. The training is designed for municipalities and safety regions to prepare residents for situations where emergency services cannot be everywhere at once. Its contribution to social inclusion and cohesion lies here: neighbours who barely knew each other experience something meaningful together and discover each other's strengths, regardless of language, background or education. Everyone has something to offer. This builds trust in the street, even outside crisis situations. The first customers are municipalities and safety regions. In phase 1, Inner Group is researching feasibility in 2 pilot sites, together with the fire service, Rotterdam-Rijnmond Safety Region, immersive designers (Framespace) and welfare organisations. Source: public phase 1 summaries, RVO
Belletje Trek
Belletje Trek is an immersive group experience in which local residents jointly go through a simulated crisis situation, such as a 3-day power outage. Using their own smartphones, participants complete tasks and work together to deal with the situation. No app download or technical knowledge is required. The experience helps residents get to know each other better, discover each other's strengths and build trust. Belletje Trek is designed as a practical tool for neighbourhood professionals to strengthen social cohesion and self-reliance, particularly within groups that don't yet know one another. This makes it possible to practise mutual self-reliance in an accessible, playful way. Source: public phase 1 summaries, RVO
WijkWijs
WijkWijs is a mobile app that helps residents prepare for a crisis at neighbourhood level. Under normal circumstances, users follow a playful AR trail past emergency facilities and key locations in their own neighbourhood, complete with immersive explanations and an AI assistant. When the internet goes down, the app switches to an offline crisis mode featuring a local map, and the on-device AI assistant remains available. The feasibility study is being carried out by Dutch Rose Media/4DR Studios in Eindhoven, with Magic Trailz and Mear Fryslân as operational partners and the municipality of Eindhoven serving as the test site. Source: public phase 1 summaries, RVO
SamenSterk
SamenSterk is a collective crisis role-play in Mixed Reality. Teams of 4 participants experience a crisis situation together, such as 72 hours without tap water. During the game, they need to come up with solutions and weigh different interests against each other, such as health, social wellbeing and safety. The experience makes crisis preparedness active and collaborative. By making decisions together and experiencing their consequences, participants discover what a crisis demands of themselves and those around them. Source: public summaries phase 1, RVO
De Blikopener
A crisis reveals just how important a neighbourhood's social infrastructure really is. De Blikopener is a hybrid method that helps municipalities, safety regions and civil society organisations work with residents to strengthen local community resilience. The method uses digital tools, physical interventions and community activation to make residents, key figures, resources, safe spaces and informal networks visible. This helps residents and professionals find each other more quickly before, during and after an emergency, even when formal aid is limited. De Blikopener helps build stronger neighbourhoods, because a neighbourhood is stronger when you already know your neighbours before a crisis hits. Source: public phase 1 summaries, RVO
BrightAR: samen zien wat je alleen niet ziet
Young people take risks: around alcohol, peer pressure and testing boundaries. Key figures are closely connected to their community and want to make a difference there. But they often lack the means to truly get a group moving. BrightAR gives them those means. BrightAR is a group-based, immersive methodology in the form of a physical toolkit. Key figures use the toolkit to run workshops with young people. Through mixed reality, participants experience the consequences of choices around alcohol and risk-taking behaviour, for example, and translate this experience together into concrete agreements and skills. BrightAR strengthens the role of key figures as drivers of awareness and behavioural change. The approach opens up conversations about social issues and helps young people make agreements together and hold each other accountable. In doing so, BrightAR aims to strengthen not only individual awareness, but also cohesion within groups and communities. Source: public summaries phase 1, RVO