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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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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
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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

Emergency Architecture & Human Rights Annual Report

After the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, and series of catastrophic tsunamis that followed in its wake, the team behind EAHR recognized that the profession of architecture had forgotten the most vulnerable people of the world and the significant impact architecture could have on building resilience and stimulating development before and after emergencies. In the following…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Report

Block by Block

Block by Block is a global initiative that uses the popular video game Minecraft to involve youth in the planning process in urban areas by giving them the opportunity to show planners and decision makers how they would like to see their cities in the future. The project is a collaboration between Mojang, the creators…
  • Publication year: 2012
  • Content Type: Other document

Participatory Design in Architectural Practice: Changing Practices in Future Making in Uncertain Times

The ways that architects invite participation in the design of future environments has evolved. This paper traces a history of architectural participatory design from the mid-twentieth century. This exploration suggests that current interest in participatory design reflects more progressive forms of architectural practice, where participatory interventions in everyday settings acknowledge and embrace value pluralism. Architects…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Academic paper

UN Women’s Global Flagship Initiative, Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces

UN Women’s Global Flagship Initiative, Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces develops, implements, and evaluates tools, policies and comprehensive approaches on the prevention of and response to sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls across different settings.
  • Publication year: 2010
  • Content Type: Other document

Enabling Inclusive Cities Tool Kit for Inclusive Urban Development

This toolkit has been prepared to provide support for the inclusive cities theme.  It presents methods to gather the required information on a particular context and location for IUD; to decide priorities; and to plan, design, and implement inclusive urban projects.  The toolkit presents an opportunity to create a record of the project design process…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Change by Design: Building Communities Through Participatory Design

This report documents a two-week action research workshop, Change by Design, undertaken in Nairobi, Kenya from 19th June – 1st July 2011. The workshop was developed and coordinated under the banner of Architecture Sans Frontieres (ASF), in partnership with the Pamoja Trust, a Kenyan NGO, and the Housing Policy Section of UN-HABITAT. The principal focus…
  • Publication year: 2011
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Participatory Design Processes for the Development of Green Areas of Large-Scale Housing: Case Studies from Budapest and Riga

Large housing estates (LHE) found in CEE countries can be seen as a legacy of socialism. Their endurance in these countries is still evident: the future of LHEs is substantially linked to their physical and social characteristics formed during socialism and their decline in status in Hungary and Latvia. The Western European practice of urban…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Tools to Act- Year 2 Report for the Every One Every Day Initiative in Barking and Dagenham

The Every One Every Day initiative is grounded in Participatory City’s nine years of deep engagement with those at the forefront of developing ‘participation culture’ around the world. The genesis of the idea has been built on research aimed at developing an approach to fostering more of these new types of inclusive participation projects, seeing…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Exploring the Methodology of Participatory Design to Create Appropriate Sanitation Technologies in Rural Malawi

The methodologies of demand-led sanitation programmes (including community-led total sanitation [CLTS] and sanitation marketing) encourage participation of users in the design of appropriate sanitation facilities. There has been limited examination of the application of established methodologies in participatory design in the sanitation sector. This paper describes and reflects upon three case studies that applied established…
  • Publication year: 2014
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Children’s Participation: The Theory and Practice of Involving Young Citizens in Community Development and Environmental Care

The book is for planners, educationalists and environmentalists, introducing the theory and the practice of children’s participation, and its importance for developing democracy and sustainable communities. Detailed case studies are provided from urban and rural, poor and middle class communities from both the North and South. For teachers, group facilitators and community leaders, it presents…
  • Publication year: 1997
  • Content Type: Book

Participatory Urban Planning

Highlights: -Engaging youth and underrepresented groups in urban planning addresses concerns about equity and provides opportunities for engaging multiple innovative perspectives. -Urban environmental education provides a framework to understand difficult trade-offs inherent in urban planning. -Urban planning brings a spatial perspective to urban environmental education pedagogy. -Together the tools of participatory urban planning and environmental…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Book

The Techniques of Participatory Design for Inclusive Public Space Provision in Kampung Kota of Surakarta

The technique of participatory design is essential for the future development knowledge of architecture to inform the improvement of architectural education and practice in Asia. Therefore to provide of inclusive public spaces for the community, this research article presents a field study of the usage of community participation design method in design and planning to…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Academic paper

A City for All Citizens: Integrating Children and Youth from Marginalized Populations into City Planning

Socially just, intergenerational urban spaces should not only accommodate children and adolescents, but engage them as participants in the planning and design of welcoming spaces. With this goal, city agencies in Boulder, Colorado, the Boulder Valley School District, the Children, Youth and Environments Centre at the University of Colorado, and a number of community organizations…
  • Publication year: 2013
  • Content Type: Academic paper

From Participatory Design to a Listening Infrastructure: A Case of Urban Planning and Participation

In this article, the authors confront challenges faced in public planning projects when the desire to implement participatory design is complicated by the need for mass quantities of data. Using one case of participatory design in urban planning, they suggest that planners struggled to effectively employ participatory design methodology because they neglected to collect the…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Co-Production After an Urban Forest Fire: Post-Disaster Reconstruction of an Informal Settlement in Chile

Disasters are not just the result of extreme natural events but are also affected by complex governance scenarios, social vulnerability, existing infrastructure, and housing reconstruction policies. This paper is an examination of a social housing construction process following destruction by an urban forest fire in an informal settlement in Valparaíso, Chile in 2017. The paper…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Participatory Urban Planning: Planning the City with and for Its Citizens

Participatory urban planning has a strong potential to transform the city and its neighbourhoods. However, it must be well planned if it is to be successful. This guidebook lays out the general aspects of the process developed by the MUEC. Its goal is to equip stakeholders and citizens by providing them with an overview of…
  • Publication year: 2015
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Development of Methods and Practices of Virtual Reality as a Tool for Participatory Urban Planning: A Case Study of Vilnius City as an Example for Improving Environmental, Social and Energy Sustainability

Multiple channels of sustainable urban development could be managed in the process of an inter-disciplinary cooperation and creative involvement of all stakeholders. The paper aims to verify how the specific methods of virtual reality simulation could be used as an effective tool for setting an efficient participation platform between the stakeholders to improve environmental, social…
  • Publication year: 2014
  • Content Type: Academic paper

80 Tools for Participatory Development: Appraisal, Planning, Follow-up and Evaluation

This book is a “toolbox” for rural-development stakeholders and professionals – extension workers, advocates, community leaders, researchers – who wish to improve and systematise community participation in projects and initiatives. It is intended for those who have realised, through their own experiences, that participation is an essential prerequisite for sustainable development. While this “toolbox” should…
  • Publication year: 2008
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Get a Different Result…Get People Participating

This toolkit has been created by people with lived experience of homelessness alongside 10 organisations from across Europe working in the fields of homelessness, social policy, civic participation and education. Positive participation is about using a wide range of tools and techniques to meet the needs of different people and situations. So this toolkit contains…
  • Publication year: 2013
  • Content Type: Toolkit

What Is It That Makes Participation in Design Participatory Design?

Despite renewed enthusiasm for participatory design it continues to be appropriate to question how it is conceived. Given the plurality and diversity of participatory design, and of the different communities in which it is applied, what is it that makes it participatory design rather than something else? What are the common themes, characteristics and qualities…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Academic paper

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