TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards a framework for urban landscape co-design
T2 - Linking the participation ladder and the design cycle
AU - Gaete Cruz, Macarena
AU - Ersoy, Aksel
AU - Czischke, Darinka
AU - van Bueren, Ellen
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - With the increasing social and ecological pressures on urban settlements, re-thinking how we produce them becomes a growing concern. Due to the diversity of actors across sectors and backgrounds involved in such design processes, collaboration is of utmost importance. Co-design can thus play a crucial role in integrating aims and knowledge as an evolving institutional process toward feasible, suitable and legitimate projects. While many studies on co-design focus on one-time activities, little attention is paid to conceptualising how such processes occur, involving several actors in dynamic participatory ways. We propose a Co-Design Framework and suggest that collaboration is achieved at many levels within different design steps in the process. Analysing three Chilean public space co-design processes through the lens of our framework, we highlight the intrinsic diversity of such an approach. This study posits that three co-design arenas interact (strategic, transdisciplinary, and socio-cultural) according to their main aims to enable, inform, and legitimise the projects accordingly. Our framework contributes to conceptualising and analyzing co-design and may also be useful to plan and develop such processes in academia and practice.
AB - With the increasing social and ecological pressures on urban settlements, re-thinking how we produce them becomes a growing concern. Due to the diversity of actors across sectors and backgrounds involved in such design processes, collaboration is of utmost importance. Co-design can thus play a crucial role in integrating aims and knowledge as an evolving institutional process toward feasible, suitable and legitimate projects. While many studies on co-design focus on one-time activities, little attention is paid to conceptualising how such processes occur, involving several actors in dynamic participatory ways. We propose a Co-Design Framework and suggest that collaboration is achieved at many levels within different design steps in the process. Analysing three Chilean public space co-design processes through the lens of our framework, we highlight the intrinsic diversity of such an approach. This study posits that three co-design arenas interact (strategic, transdisciplinary, and socio-cultural) according to their main aims to enable, inform, and legitimise the projects accordingly. Our framework contributes to conceptualising and analyzing co-design and may also be useful to plan and develop such processes in academia and practice.
KW - Chile
KW - Co-design
KW - collaborative design
KW - design process
KW - public space
KW - urban landscape
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85142631965&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15710882.2022.2123928
DO - 10.1080/15710882.2022.2123928
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85142631965
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - CoDesign: international journal of cocreation in design and the arts
JF - CoDesign: international journal of cocreation in design and the arts
SN - 1571-0882
ER -