FW: Link to recording - Capability Sessions: Learning Together with superwien
Keegan Aplin-Thane
FYI in case the below webinar recording from the Streets for People team is of interest!
From: Streets for people Project <Streetsf...@nzta.govt.nz>
Sent: Friday, 25 November 2022 1:42 pm
Cc: Belen Iturralde <Belen.I...@nzta.govt.nz>
Subject: Link to recording - Capability Sessions: Learning Together with superwien
Kia ora koutou,
Thank you for attending the ‘Participatory urban design, placemaking, and city making’ webinar on November 24. Here is the link to the recording: https://youtu.be/yYhqQGe5H6A
In this session, Roland Krebs (Director, Urban Planning & Design) and Milagros Hurtig (Urban Planning Specialist) from superwien urbanism discussed their experiences developing placemaking projects around the globe, transforming spaces into places.
These are key lessons from superwien urbanism:
Actively involving communities in the design of public places is about working top-down to enable bottom-up:
Ø Planners as moderators of the process, engaging local knowledge and co-develop a vision.
Ø Leave no one behind approach: Make alliances with local businesses to co-deliver interventions (a local bike shop can provide bikes in an intervention aimed at highlighting alternative uses of space and ways of moving around).
Ø Design sessions for the groups that you are engaging with (a workshop with children will not be the same as one for seniors)
Participatory planning requires:
- Preparation: Thorough investigation and ground work before jumping into the design
- Toolbox: Demographic census map, mode share map, and stakeholders map to understand where are the marginalised groups.
Ø Experimental tools for analysis and design, the key ingredient is creativity!
- Toolbox for analysis: traditional counting and observation, office set up and pop-ups in public space, grid analysis, future activity map, emotional mapping, interviews in the public space, time machine, social cartographies, observation, surveys, ground floor analysis.
- Gender-sensitive toolbox: Gender sensitive walks, caring workshops, safety maps, body mapping, public space evaluation, chalking workshop.
- Toolbox for co-creation workshops: open course, world cafe, open discussion, walks, place game, urban cinema, exhibitions. You can use VR to show, for instance, environmental improvements of proposed project.
In sum, turning spaces into places involves
Ø Ensuring that participatory planning and integrated planning work together.
Ø Master plan for (critical) placemaking: integrating enabling zones, commercial zones, with non-commercial zone to avoid commercialisation of public space.
Ø Focusing on the process. Empowerment comes through an attentively designed process and not just from the project results. Developing ‘programmes’ instead of ‘projects’ is a way of focusing on an ongoing process, that needs iteration and caretaking.
We look forward to seeing you again in future workshops as part of Capability Sessions: Learning Together. Register here for the December 7 session about collaboration, citizen participation, and urban pedagogy with Brazilian urbanist Eveline Trevisan. To see the full program, sign up to the Capability Sessions newsletter and watch the recordings of past session0s, visit in the Streets for People website.
Ngā mihi,
The Streets for People team
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