Abstract
Urban development projects are complex processes that involve numerous stakeholders. Lately, urban design has gained a human-centred dynamic to be able to correspond to the needs and aspirations of the stakeholders that form the community. This paper proposes a participatory approach to bring the community to the centre of the design process. Through a case study conducted in the coastal areas of the Philippines, we take a closer look at how co-design can help tackle fragile living situations that emerge from challenging environmental and social conditions. First, future scenarios are co-created with residents in the form of visual summaries, boards and relationship maps. Secondly, these insights are translated into a design framework, where stakeholders can discuss and further iterate on the proposed solutions. This bottom-up approach that directly uses participants' input in identifying the essential elements of the new settlements enabled the generation of implementable design scenarios on neighbourhood scale.
Keywords
codesign, participatory design, urban development & neighbourhood design
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.573
Citation
Echaniz, A., Celik, S., and Ham, P. (2022) A participatory approach in urban development: Co-designing resilient coastal neighbourhoods, in Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June - 3 July, Bilbao, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.573
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A participatory approach in urban development: Co-designing resilient coastal neighbourhoods
Urban development projects are complex processes that involve numerous stakeholders. Lately, urban design has gained a human-centred dynamic to be able to correspond to the needs and aspirations of the stakeholders that form the community. This paper proposes a participatory approach to bring the community to the centre of the design process. Through a case study conducted in the coastal areas of the Philippines, we take a closer look at how co-design can help tackle fragile living situations that emerge from challenging environmental and social conditions. First, future scenarios are co-created with residents in the form of visual summaries, boards and relationship maps. Secondly, these insights are translated into a design framework, where stakeholders can discuss and further iterate on the proposed solutions. This bottom-up approach that directly uses participants' input in identifying the essential elements of the new settlements enabled the generation of implementable design scenarios on neighbourhood scale.