ORGANISATION

Ikasteam. The Gipuzkoa Science and Technology Park is a space governed by business logic, achieving “tangible” results and returns that aim to contribute to the economic development of Gipuzkoa. It houses 92 companies that coexist in an area of ​​high technological, ecological and natural value and with great potential because of its location and features.

Ikasteam presents itself as a crosscutting group that seeks to hibridise processes, innovate and deliver programmes, proposals and results aimed at developing the people who are the main assets of the companies located in the Park. The goal is to provide it with distinctive high value, quality features to create a specific identity and pride of belonging to the Gipuzkoa Science and Technology Park.

CHALLENGE

After several years of activity, Ikasteam needed to reinvent itself to take a further step on the road to achieving its goals.

IMPROBABLE COLLABORATOR

Vivero de Iniciativas Ciudadanas (VIC) is an open collaborative project aimed at promoting, disseminating, analysing and supporting critical initiatives and processes with the proactive spirit of citizens, with special emphasis on transfers to the territory, city and public space. The goal of Vivero de Iniciativas Ciudadanas is to create updated links in society, listening, studying and proposing routes on specific situations and helping to reunite theory and practice.

PARTICIPANTS

Ikasteam staff and managers.

PROCESS

VIC proposed creating a collaborative affective map so that not only would the spatial configurations and layout of the campus itself be expressed, but also its qualitative content, its existing affections and capital, ways of relating, evolutionary aspects, synergies and spaces for opportunity.

The affective map made evident the existence of formal and informal communities coexisting in the Park that conduct exhanges and collective actions. The diagnosis also detected other emerging and/or potential communities of gardeners, craftsmen, cyclists, etc. that could signify an opportunity to foster relationships in the Technology Park’s setting.

In turn, many “infrastructures” were also detected favouring the emergence and consolidation of communities, cafeterias, tours, recreational and picnic areas, etc., so new tools (such as bookcrossing points, viewpoints, concert spaces, working vegetable garden, main exchange field, etc.) to help advance the integration and hybridisation of people and their feelings as opposed to the business, labour and economic logic prevailing in the Park.

RESULTS

The programme results led to an awareness of the Park’s current and future challenges – participatory diagnosis – and the creation of an “affective” map combining informal capital and devices and pointing to intervention spaces for the future, as well as a series of interviews focusing on existing, emerging communities that question its future identity and development.