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Thematic Area: Participatory design

Participatory design involves community members in the design process. Also known as ‘co-creation’, ‘co-design’, or ‘co-operative design, it encompasses techniques useful to both initial discovery and subsequent ideation phases of a project, where the end-users of a product, service, or experience take an active role in co-designing solutions for themselves (UX Magazine).

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Insights, Solutions and Empowerment: A Framework for Evaluating Participatory Design

This study provides key assessing methodology to understand the potential transformative capacity of Participatory Design in people working on the project. This article presents a new outcome-focused framework to assist in the evaluation of Participatory Design projects. The Insights, Solutions and Empowerment Framework draws from extant literature, and first-hand case studies in rural Cambodia, and…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Urban Planning and Design Labs: Tools for Integrated and Participatory Urban Planning

This toolkit provides a great project-based approach for Participatory Planning and Participatory Design. It incorporates the concept of «planning labs», and includes cases from the Global South. UN-Habitat founded its in-house Urban Planning and Design Lab in Nairobi in order to provide assistance to local, regional and national authorities with urban planning and design. The…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Toolkit
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The Challenge of Time in Community-Based Participatory Design

This study tackles in detail the problem of time and different timings of each stakeholder involved on PD processes. One of the most critical issues is the time coordination of stakeholders in participatory design articulation of their actions in terms of time. The difference in background, role and motivation between the participating actors can result…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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A Framework for Organizing the Tools and Techniques of Participatory Design

This guide provides a detailed and comprehensive collection of tools and strategies to be used in Participatory Design and co-design sessions. The field of Participatory Design (PD) has grown rapidly over the last 20 to 30 years. For more than two decades non-designers have been increasingly involved in various design activities through a large number…
  • Publication year: 2010
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Visioning as Participatory Planning Tool: Learning from Kosovo Practices

This sourcebook draws from the experience of several successive programmes implemented by UN-Habitat in Kosovo, which used visioning as a participatory planning tool. The toolkit explains a) the role of visioning in participatory planning; b) the methodology of visioning; and c) learning from the experiences in Kosovo. The goal is to explore ideas and tools…
  • Publication year: 2012
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Regional Action Plan for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean 2016-2036

The Regional Action Plan for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean (RAP) seeks to be the regional expression of the New Urban Agenda (NUA). It promotes evidence-based policy making, setting out potential actions and interventions as well as relevant and priority policy guidance for all Latin American and…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Report

The Nightmare of Participation. (Crossbench Praxis as A Mode of Criticality)

In this book, the author argues for an urgent inversion of participation, a model beyond modes of consensus. Instead of reading participation as the charitable saviour of political struggle, Miessen candidly reflects on the limits and traps of its real motivations. Rather than breading the next generation of consensual facilitators and mediators, he argues for…
  • Publication year: 2010
  • Content Type: Book

A Tool for Reflection-on Participant Diversity and Changeability Over Time in Participatory Design

The expansion of participatory design, from a Scandinavian workplace context, to also include the public sphere, communities and developing countries, has led to a high diversification of participants. However, these new types of participant groups are often addressed in a simplistic manner, viewed as homogenous entities, without consideration being given to the fact that they…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Habitat III Issue Papers

The Habitat III Issue Papers are summary documents that address research areas, highlight general findings, and identify research needs on topics related to housing and sustainable urban development. Through its Task Team on Habitat III, the United Nations system collaborated on the preparation of the Issue Papers. The Papers provided a background on each thematic…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Report

Using Social Media and Mobile Technologies to Foster Engagement and Self-Organization in Participatory Urban Planning and Neighbourhood Governance

This editorial explores the potential of social media and mobile technologies to foster citizen engagement and participation in urban planning. We argue that there is a lot of wishful thinking, but little empirically validated knowledge in this emerging field of study. We outline key developments and pay attention to larger societal and political trends. The…
  • Publication year: 2015
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Re-Imagining Participatory Design: Reflecting on the ASF-UK Change by Design Methodology

This article aims to reflect on the ASF-UK Change by Design methodology in participatory informal settlement upgrading, positioning it within ongoing debates about the conceptualization and practice of participatory design. The first part of this article draws on key literature exploring the relationship between participation and architecture and participation and design to identify the trends…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Academic paper

The Integration of Refugees through Participatory Planning in Transitory Spaces: Policy Implications from Conflict Transformation and Urban Planning

The numbers are staggering: according to a recent report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are currently an estimated 65.3 million forcibly displaced persons worldwide (UNHCR 2016). Developing countries are on the receiving end of 86% of them, with an estimated 19.5 million refugees worldwide that are housed in UNHCR refugee…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Academic paper

After the Tsunami in Cooks Nagar: The Challenges of Participatory Rebuilding

In the context of post-disaster reconstruction, there is growing awareness of the need for more integrated inclusive processes that allow people to retake control of their lives, and that ensure practical responses to local conditions. Yet, a range of pressures and challenges conspire to make these approaches appear unworkable. “Participation” in this context, if it…
  • Publication year: 2008
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Using Minecraft for Youth Participation in Urban Design and Governance

The purpose of this paper is to outline UN-Habitat’s approach to using information and communication technology (ICT) as an enabler to encourage youth participation in urban design and governance. In 2012 UN-Habitat started working with Mojang, the makers of the popular computer game Minecraft. Through the partnership with Mojang, Block by Block, UN-Habitat uses Minecraft…
  • Publication year: 2015
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design

Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed. Embracing a diverse collection of principles and practices aimed at making technologies, tools, environments, businesses, and…
  • Publication year: 2013
  • Content Type: Book

The Future of Cities: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way Forward

This report identifies challenges influencing the future of cities in Europe and beyond. It also presents several perspectives from which to look at resolving these issues. The main aim is to raise open questions and steer discussions on what the future of cities can, and should be, both within the scientific and policymaker communities.  It…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Report

Agonistic Participatory Design: Working with Marginalised Social Movements

Participatory design (PD) has become increasingly engaged in public spheres and everyday life and is no longer solely concerned with the workplace. This is not only a shift from work-oriented productive activities to leisure and pleasurable engagements, but also a new milieu for production and ‘innovation’. What ‘democratic innovation’ entails is often currently defined by…
  • Publication year: 2012
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Map Kibera

Map Kibera is an initiative that in 2009 empowered young residents of Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, to create the first digital map of the area, which was previously a blank spot on the map. The initiative has since expanded into a full community information and media project that uses tools like mapping, SMS,…
  • Publication year: 2009
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Shaping Urbanization for Children: A Handbook on Child-Responsive Urban Planning

Shaping urbanization for children, a handbook on child-responsive urban planning, presents concepts, evidence and technical strategies to bring children to the foreground of urban planning. By focusing on children, this publication provides guidance on the central role that urban planning should play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), from a global perspective to a…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Toolkit

The Future Is Ours: Strategic Foresight Toolkit – Making Better Decisions

The world is changing. The climate crisis, the digital revolution and mass migration are just some of the forces driving change at greater speed than ever before. The challenges are immense. But for those that can adapt, it can bring incredible opportunities too. In an unstable and unpredictable world, all of us – organisation, teams…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Are We Building Competitive and Liveable Cities?: Guidelines for Developing Eco-Efficient and Socially Inclusive Infrastructure

The guidelines have been developed to inspire change among local governments (and other actors in the field of urban development) in the planning, designing and managing of urban infrastructure. The goal is to encourage an integrated approach, taking into account principles and criteria of eco-efficiency and social inclusiveness. Such an approach will help decision makers…
  • Publication year: 2011
  • Content Type: Report

Monitoring Government Policies: A Toolkit for Civil Society Organisations in Africa

The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), Christian Aid, and Trócaire started the toolkit project to assist partner organizations in holding their governments to account for the consequences of their policies. This 100 page document is a resource for civil society organizations operating in Africa. This toolkit specifically targets African partners, seeking to share the…
  • Publication year: 2007
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Urban Heart: Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool

The Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) helps urban policymakers, communities and other stakeholders better understand the local socio-economic factors that influence health outcomes and tackle urban health inequities. The tool serves to identify and correct policies that perpetuate these inequities, for instance, the higher rates of illness and death among the children…
  • Publication year: 2010
  • Content Type: Report

Diseño Participativo de Espacios Públicos con Perspectiva de Infancia

This document presents the value of participatory methodologies to integrate girls, boys and adolescents’ knowledge and perceptions, as an input for the design of urban public spaces. The experience of the Sustainable Urban Development Centre (CEDEUS) in Villa Marta Brunet (Puente Alto, Santiago, Chile) as a case.
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Toolkit

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