Yesterday, we were invited to participate at the knelpunten bijeenkomst (bottleneck meeting) at the Fietsersbond Amsterdam. The Fietsersbond arranges every other week a bottleneck meeting, where they discuss current issues within the Amsterdam infrastructure. They update each other on their contact with the municipality and the current status of the issue.
Gerrit Faber, who we already met earlier this semester for an expert interview, is one of the policy officers at the Fietsersbond. He gave us a warm welcome, as did the other members. We were able to pitch our prototype to these people of the Fietsersbond, who all have years of experience within the cycling culture of the Netherlands and thus form a core within the Fietsersbond society.
They were all pretty enthusiastic about the prototype, even though the functionality was questioned. Later on in the meeting, it became clear that we were a little vague about the way we see our prototype being used by users and the Fietsersbond.
We proposed two prototypes earlier this semester, and we decided to work further on the first prototype; Verbeter de Straat. Donna and Bernard have been working hard on the design of this prototype. Our idea is to connect this prototype with Fietsersbond Meldpunt, a issue-reporting service that the Fietsersbond maintains.
Fietsersbond Herontwerpen is the current name of our product.
We will post later this week more information about the prototype.
Stay tuned!