Abstract

Community Service Facilities are the basic unit that carries the daily activities of residents. The evaluation of community service facilities is the key to ensuring a balance between the supply of facilities and the needs of residents. Existing studies mainly focus on a specific type of facility from the perspective of an independent discipline. A lack of a holistic understanding leads to several problems, such as the incompatibility of different disciplines' perspectives and the inconsistency between evaluation results and users' needs. Design is being considered and explored as a tool for dealing with systems-level issues. We re-cognized the evaluation problem of community service facilities based on DesignX. And Buchanan's four strategies of design inquiry were introduced to develop new thinking on evaluation. This paper provides a systematic perspective on the facility evaluation problem and the research direction of the evaluation in the context of design.

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community service facilities; DesignX; four strategies of design inquiry; designing systemically

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A systematic thinking on evaluation of community service facilities in the context of design

Community Service Facilities are the basic unit that carries the daily activities of residents. The evaluation of community service facilities is the key to ensuring a balance between the supply of facilities and the needs of residents. Existing studies mainly focus on a specific type of facility from the perspective of an independent discipline. A lack of a holistic understanding leads to several problems, such as the incompatibility of different disciplines' perspectives and the inconsistency between evaluation results and users' needs. Design is being considered and explored as a tool for dealing with systems-level issues. We re-cognized the evaluation problem of community service facilities based on DesignX. And Buchanan's four strategies of design inquiry were introduced to develop new thinking on evaluation. This paper provides a systematic perspective on the facility evaluation problem and the research direction of the evaluation in the context of design.

 

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