Citizen centered design

Authors

  • Ingrid Mulder Delft University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/5925

Keywords:

Participatory Design, Transition City, Top-Down Management, Bottom-Up Management, Citizenship

Abstract

Today architecture has to design for rapidly changing futures, in a citizen-centered way. That is, architecture needs to embrace meaningful design. Societal challenges ask for a new paradigm in city-making, which combines top-down public management with bottom-up social innovation to reach meaningful design. The biggest challenge is indeed to embrace a new collaborative attitude, a participatory approach, and to have the proper infrastructure that supports this social fabric. Participatory design and transition management are future-oriented, address people and institutions. Only through understanding people in context and the corresponding dynamics, one is able to design for liveable and sustainable urban environments, embracing the human scale.

References

Brynskov, M., Carvajal Bermúdez, J.C., Fernandez, M., Korsgaard, H., Mulder, I., Piskorek, K., Rekow, L., & de Waal, M. (2014). Urban Interaction Design: Towards city-making. Amsterdam: Floss Manuals.

Mulder, I. (2014). Sociable Smart Cities: Rethinking Our Future through Co-creative Partnerships. Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions (pp. 566-574): Springer.

Sanders, L. & Stappers, P.J. (2014). From designing to co-designing to collective dreaming: three slices in time. Interactions, 21(6), pp. 24-33.

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Published

2015-11-30

How to Cite

Mulder, I. (2015). Citizen centered design. IN_BO. Ricerche E Progetti Per Il Territorio, La Città E l’architettura, 6(3). https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/5925

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 3 (2015): TEACHING AND MAKING ARCHITECTURE TODAY. A global inquiry, special issue

Section

Inquiry

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