Participatory Design in Architecture: A toolkit to communicate needs between architects and users

As architects encounter challenges when comprehending and fulfilling the requirements of users and other stakeholders involved in the<br/>architectural design project, participatory design, which involves non-architects in the design process, is perceived as one of the solutions. It is a developing practice that can lead to greater engagement of...

Participation as a Tool for the Sustainable Redesign of Vacant Heritage: The Case of Politiebureau Groningen Centrum

This paper explores the opportunities for locals’ participation as a tool for the sustainable redevelopment of vacant heritage. It focuses on the Politiebureau Groningen Centrum (The Netherlands) as a case study to apply a novel approach to engage community participation in architectural redesign. It fills the academic gap on participation in...

Empowerment of Youth Through Design in Youth Initiatives

Youth care in the Netherlands has faced quite some problems in the past years. It is organised only by adults who mostly have nothing to do with it, and it shows — both youth care workers and youth themselves have had enough. Every solution to the youth care problem in the Netherlands leads to new problems, making it a wicked problem which does...

Another Shenzhen: Towards an Urban Regeneration Model for Intercultural Integration

Shenzhen has long been seen as the ‘World Factory’ and a ‘Cultural Desert’. However in the era of knowledge based development, it is urgent to explore new strategies on urban regeneration in the perspective of intercultural integration. The migration of multiple sub ethic groups in the history as well as the migrant workers from nationwide since...

Designing a Designer: Designing a decision support system for designing communication strategies

This thesis presents the research on designing a decision support system for designing communication strategies. The importance of this topic comes from the idea that more academic knowledge from social sciences could be used in designing communication strategies. However, often those strategies are not designed by scholars. Therefore a way must...