Abstract
Participatory Placemaking is increasingly implemented by European cities as a methodological framework to achieve more sustainable ways for urban development. However, there is a clash between the flexible, dynamic, and communicative nature of participatory placemaking and the static, slow, and bureaucratic nature of the implementing institutions. The starting point of this study where two research questions: What communicational challenges arise when participatory placemaking is implemented by city officials in specific urban contexts? And how can design tools play a role contributing to the relational dynamics of placemaking? This article explores these, while simultaneously discussing the role design tools can play in contributing to the transition from a traditional planning scheme to a systematized placemaking approach to planning. Designers have a potential role to play in energizing these transitions; and one trajectory would be to introduce and develop design tools that can help negotiate relational power.
Keywords
placemaking; public space; participatory governance; communicational design
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.852
Citation
Hurtig, M., and Fladvad Nielsen, B. (2024) Relational workshopping: co-designing a placemaking approach to urban governance, in Gray, C., Ciliotta Chehade, E., Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2024: Boston, 23–28 June, Boston, USA. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.852
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Relational workshopping: co-designing a placemaking approach to urban governance
Participatory Placemaking is increasingly implemented by European cities as a methodological framework to achieve more sustainable ways for urban development. However, there is a clash between the flexible, dynamic, and communicative nature of participatory placemaking and the static, slow, and bureaucratic nature of the implementing institutions. The starting point of this study where two research questions: What communicational challenges arise when participatory placemaking is implemented by city officials in specific urban contexts? And how can design tools play a role contributing to the relational dynamics of placemaking? This article explores these, while simultaneously discussing the role design tools can play in contributing to the transition from a traditional planning scheme to a systematized placemaking approach to planning. Designers have a potential role to play in energizing these transitions; and one trajectory would be to introduce and develop design tools that can help negotiate relational power.