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| Id | 867 | |
| Author | Criss S., Kleinmann M. | |
| Title | Dotte agency: A participatory design model for community health | |
| Reference | Criss S., Kleinmann M.; Dotte agency: A participatory design model for community health ;Plan Journal vol:1.0 issue: 2.0 page:213.0 |
Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85090553328&doi=10.15274%2ftpj.2016.01.02.09&partnerID=40&md5=517575fa329fb23812b9126bef694754 |
| Abstract | As community activists resist racial injustice, food insecurity, and infrastructural delinquency, many groups are attempting to articulate the voice of the citizen. It is within this landscape that architects have historically struggled to find common ground to afford democratic access for citizens to engage in discussions about the future of their city. Based upon surrogate models of other professions, there has emerged a proactive movement towards Social Impact Design. Like many urban core areas, our community faces a health epidemic compounded by poverty. In response to requests for collaboration, and through cross-disciplinary academic partnerships in both public health and social welfare, we have begun to leverage design advocacy to improve health outcomes. This has evolved into an alternative model of practice that advances public design through interdisciplinary, adaptive and incremental spatial agency. It is a sustainable practice that fosters conversations and supports events originating from within the community. Our approach seeks to scaffold an infrastructure of public health through methods of participatory design and advocacy. Through new forms of design intelligence and collaborative design tools, our critical spatial practice demonstrates new ways for how architectural design can be relevant to society. © 2016, Maggioli S.p.a. All rights reserved. |
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| Once shared with other members of the community, this process allows for a critical dialogue to emerge, which makes the act of storytelling a powerful participatory tool for community stakeholders. . | Evidence also backs this approach as an instructional tool, for both students and the community. . | By inviting communities to be participants in the process of both a buildings design and its construction, their success reflects how projects that improve health can be a viable path forward for architects wishing to integrate social impact design with architectural practice. . | By adopting a social determinants of health mindset, design skills that improve the built environment, to enhance access to spaces and support greater community health outcomes, become essential. . | However, when community advocates working in interdisciplinary partnerships can come together to present a cohesive vision for greater public health access in the built environment based upon community engagement and participatory design, this process can serve to reframe an affected communitys relationship with local authorities that may have previously ignored them. . | Through engagement events, participatory design in community spaces can shape advocacy and civic discourse to gain multiple perspectives on what spaces add value and what spaces can have the greatest potential impact (for better or worse). . | When it works best, participatory process can cut through siloed, institutionalized boundaries, connecting various neighborhoods in the name of the common good. . | However, with community feedback it can be a powerful participatory design process for residents, advocates, and designers to engage in. . | Through new forms of design intelligence and collaborative design tools, our critical spatial practice demonstrates new ways for how architectural design can be relevant to society. . | Rather than responding to acute disease in the setting of an emergency room, adapting the built environment to support active, healthy lifestyles is a more efficient and equitable form of health care, and is at the heart of preventive medicine. . | In fact, the history of social impact design practices is rich with examples of pioneering architects that have successfully navigated academia, nonprofit, and private practice to enrich the field of community design. . | As architects work towards eliminating health disparities, they must explore how improving multi-modal means of transportation (sidewalks, bike trails, public transportation, ride-sharing, etc.) access to public parks, and access to fresh food venues are critical to improving health in the built environment. . | By reframing the ownership of city-owned public spaces (parks, schools, playgrounds, trails, sidewalks, streets, etc.) to what spaces can serve the greatest public good, asking residents to be involved in the restoration of public space through participatory design methods can equip residents with the tools and empower them with the visions needed to reshape their environments. . | This filter allows for a more flexible approach than the traditional architectural model, where the desire of the community is given primary consideration, while issues such as whether it can be built efficiently help to guide the process towards a final design solution. . | It is a sustainable practice that fosters conversations and supports events originating from within the community. . | That engaging the community is now an essential component of responding to adaptive problems is a welcome development, but it comes with a caveat: not all engagement strategies are equal. . | Explaining the circumstances and the intent of the partnership fosters greater transparency and goodwill, helping to establish a bond between architects and community groups. . | The role of the designer, beyond the process itself, is to develop the capacity of the resident and stakeholders to articulate the needs in a shared vision. . |
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