Participatory design

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

Beyond the Networked City: Situated Practices of Citizenship and Grassroots Agency in Water Infrastructure Provision in the Chamazi Settlement, Dar Es Salaam

The paper argues in favour of newly emerging forms of citizenship within participatory spheres that enhance access of the poor to urban services through direct participation aimed at socially equitable outcomes. It develops principles of inclusiveness and social justice, contributing to long-term improvement. Concept: infrastructure deficit is not solely a technical problem of extending pipe…

Publication year: 2017
Content Type: Academic paper

Motivations, Results and the Role of Technology in Participatory Design Research During 2000’s – A Review in the Field of Architecture and Urban Planning

This study analyses motivations, results and technology of the participatory design approach. It is a review based on 32 papers, presenting recent studies on participatory design in architecture and urban planning during the time period from 2000 to 2014. As a result, the main motivations, outcomes and the role of technology are emphasised and discussed.…

Publication year: 2016
Content Type: Academic paper

Designed to Scale Mass Participation to Build Resilient Neighbourhoods

Small, fragmented, low frequency participation will not transform neighbourhoods. Is local participation at scale possible and does it hold the potential to improve people’s lives and make lasting positive change? The Open Works research project aimed to test if a platform approach could scale up the new type of ‘participation culture’ that has emerged over…

Publication year: 2019
Content Type: Toolkit

Ensuring Access to Health Care: Operational Guidance on Refugee Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas

This report includes operational guidance for public health programming in urban settings for refugees and asylum seekers to provide practical guidance that can be adapted according to differing contexts. It draws on best practices and illustrative examples from cities and towns where UNHCR is currently working with urban refugees.

Publication year: 2011
Content Type: Report

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

Thematic Area: Participatory design

Search

Keywords

Regions

Publisher(s)

Author(s)

Publication Year

Content Type