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Joost Beunderman

Researcher

Joost Beunderman joined Demos in December 2005 as a researcher. His primary research interests are in the field of urban policy, in particular the relation between people and the shaping of the everyday built environment.

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Email: joost.beunderman@demos.co.uk

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Joost Beunderman joined Demos in December 2005 as a researcher. His primary research interests are in the field of urban policy, in particular the relation between the public and the shaping of the everyday built environment. He is currently working on several Demos projects.


Mass Participation 2012: this feasibility study is investigating how communties across the whole of the UK can meaningfully participate in the London Olympics and how they can win a sustainable local legacy. Demos is developing practical proposals for how this can be taken forward.

Children Make Places: a project for the Children's Play Council which explores the wider social, cultural and political context in which the children’s public realm is being shaped. Heavy investment in play provision is currently set to deliver physical improvements to children's play spaces but, their access to the public realm is restricted as much by adult attitudes and anxieties as by physical barriers.

Joost is also involved in the BCN-LON project which brings Demos together with the Fundació Ramon Trias Fargas of Barcelona in an effort to re-think urban policy discourses in that city. A book based on a joint ‘work party’ held in April 2006 is due to be published in March 2007.

Joost holds an MSc with distinction from the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics. Before that, he studied urban geography and planning at Utrecht University, the University of California, Berkeley and the Universitat de Barcelona.

Before joining Demos, Joost was a consultant and researcher at AZ Urban Studio, an urban development and design consultancy. He is also a part-time associate of Urban Urhahn Design, an Amsterdam-based urban design practice, and currently sits on the Steering Group of the Brent ‘Walking Links" project, part of the St Raphael's, Brentfield and Mitchelbrook Neighbourhood Renewal programme in the London Borough of Brent, which aims to involve residents in efforts to improve the quality of the pedestrian realm.