Towards a framework for urban landscape co-design

Towards a framework for urban landscape co-design: Linking the participation ladder and the design cycle

Gaete Cruz, M. (TU Delft Urban Development Management)
Ersoy, A. (TU Delft Urban Development Management)
Czischke, D.K. (TU Delft Real Estate Management)
van Bueren, Ellen (TU Delft Management in the Built Environment)

Management in the Built Environment

2022

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.

Chile
Co-design
collaborative design
design process
public space
urban landscape

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c3b4c67b-f871-4f46-9a2a-e726f7c6e3db

https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2022.2123928

1571-0882

CoDesign: international journal of cocreation in design and the arts, 19 (3), 233-252

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© 2022 M. Gaete Cruz, A. Ersoy, D.K. Czischke, Ellen van Bueren