14 sep 2011
The papers are the outcome of the so called ‘Flexible Show’, a workshop initiated and organized by Hans de Haan on tuesday the 29th of September 2009. Twenty researchers of Next Generation Infrastructures were discussing at this 'show' many different infrastructures and their flexibility. Infrastructures are not easy to adjust and ‘slow’, they are developed for a long period of time. While climate, politics and the needs of users changes rapidly, infrastructures can not be changed that fast. How can infrastructures be made more flexible, so they can adapt faster in our society in the near future?
The workshop was extremely creative. The researchers where challenged to join actively in the discussion and search for flexible solutions. At the end of the day they had to make abstracts, to show their intention to create, with respect to content, articles on flexible infrastructures.
And today the final content is there! 7 journal papers written for a Special Issue on Flexible infrastructures; Futures, Volume 43, Issue 9 (November 2011). [s.l.]: Elsevier Science, 2011. ISSN: 0016-3287. Eds. Hans de Haan.
The papers:
De Haan, J.: Introduction, Flexible infrastructures for uncertain futures.
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De Haan, J.; J.H. Kwakkel; W.E. Walker; J. Spirco and W.A.H. Thissen: Framing flexibility: Theorising and data mining to develop a useful definition of flexibility and related concepts.
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Kwakkel, J.H. and J.W.G.M. van der Pas: Evaluation of infrastructure planning approaches: An analogy with medicine.
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Egyedi, Tineke and Jaroslav Spirco: Standards in transitions: Catalyzing infrastructure change.
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Herder, Paulien M.; Jeroen de Joode; Andreas Ligtvoet; Sigrid Schenk and Poonam Taneja: Buying real options – Valuing uncertainty in infrastructure planning.
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De Haan, J.; J.L.M. Vrancken and Z. Lukszo: Why is intelligent technology alone not an intelligent solution?
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De Reuver, Mark; Harry Bouwman; Guillermo Prieto and Alex Visser: Governance of flexible mobile service platforms.
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