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Looking to host a democratic design competition, engage local residents in enhancing their neighbourhood, or a simple tool for pooling visual ideas during a creative meeting? 🤔 Tandeems.lv may be your answer! 😊 👉 We spoke to Karlis Jaunromans, architect and co-founder, to learn how the Latvian-made platform can help come up with creative solutions in the areas of design, urban planning, recycling and innovation. Read the full article here 👇 #labsoflatvia #startinlatvia #neighbourhood

[HKIA Journal | Issue 79: Community] A Cycle of Life in Chun Yeung Kian Yam Hiu Lan / Li Kwan Ho / Mavis Yip Ho Kwan The public architectural installation, A Cycle of Life in Chun Yeung, integrates the redesign of a run-down open space at the intersection of Chun Yeung Street and Tong Shui Road, featuring a first-of-its-kind on-site food waste collection station, aiming to revitalize cultural citizenship within the North Point community. This transformation challenged the conventional notion of food waste disposal as a messy and disorganized process, inspiring positive shifts in user behavior and fostering community engagement. The program garnered positive reception from the community, showcasing promising results. These outcomes underscore the transformative impact of community design, turning a once chaotic corner into a functional and visually appealing station within the previously disorganized area. For the full HKIA Journal, please visit https://lnkd.in/ghq8C-YK HKIA Journal Issue 80: Technology in Architecture is now calling for papers. The submission deadline for viewpoint essays and project showcases is on 30 September 2024. More details at https://lnkd.in/gRMvhAfj #hkia #architecture #journal #community

Narratives of Irresistible Futures: a compiulation of stories bout the 8 different sites that experimented for 2 years within the Desire an Irresistible Circular Society project to discover the key conditions for creating built environment initiatives that engage people in transformative change. The report concludes: - to promote place-based change when experimenting with creating sustainable, attractive and inclusive urban spaces through interactions with and across designers, artists, project managers, architects and others, we notice that: • Creative, artistic, and design methods can support deep and participatory engagement with places • Building and nurturing trust and relationships with people is vital to developing a sense of belonging and ensuring the sustainability of urban transformation efforts • Organisations actively creating spaces for dialogue and presenting alternatives for the future development of living spaces is important • Multistakeholder participatory processes can take various formats. When tailored to the unique local context, it can lead to more effective and relevant outcomes and strengthen local actors’ support and trust in organised initiatives See pages 71-83 for our contribution to Kalundborg, and final recommendations for two key living systems principles - the importance of relationship before task and working with potential not problems. Produced by Olivia Thomassen Harre #livingsystemsprinciples #regeneration #potentialnotproblems #relationshipbeforetask #neweuropeanbauhaus #DESIRE #PowerofPlace #PlacesForLife https://lnkd.in/e-A8z4Mb

Narratives and storytelling are an important way to illuminate regenerative futures, and detail how living systems principles, when applied, create transformative change. Seeding key principles into key place-bsed initiatives is part of our work at Really Regenerative CIC so really pleased to see how new language and source narratives are surfcing in EU work. Working with evolutionary potential not problem-solving. Focusing on the importance of relationship before task. Exploring and healing root causes of the story of separation. Are all finding their way into everyday language in the New European Bauhaus.

Thanks to Prachi Rampuria and Soham De for the illuminating introduction to their new book EcoResponsive Environments Some thoughts were sparked that apply across design and strategy disciplines: - Designing for the Anthropocene Age is our call to work beyond short-termism. We need to consider different time scales - from slowly evolving landscapes to rapidly changing streets. - Project management can be a strategic and visionary role, acting as the connector and complexity navigator for different disciplines and contexts  - A home should be a truly adaptive system with possibilities for regenerative or circular design at every layer - from the stuff we own, to the materials we build with. (Let’s rethink ‘smart home’!) - The city itself can be a social learning experience. If we design to reveal the natural services that support us, perhaps we’ll come closer to understanding and honouring them 💚 You can order their book here: https://lnkd.in/eCdGgNx2

Transformation of a urban space to cityscape can often be a set of defined parameters, slowly over time transforming a cityscape to one of micro communities.

Meet Priyanca D'Souza: speaker at Research by the Sea 2025. Think you know accessibility in #research and #design? Think again. Priyanca will give us insight into how #intersectionality makes a difference to people's lives – and to our work. She'll show us how a two-dimensional approach to #accessibility risks excluding one group of people while we aim to provide for another. And she'll show us how to think and work differently to avoid this. Come away from Priyanca's talk in #Brighton with a more nuanced and human approach to accessibility and design research that goes way beyond compliance.

Put simply, hostile designs are intentionally created to restrict behaviours in urban spaces in order to maintain public order. Another way to look at it is a way of designing some people out of public space. It’s one thing to create inaccessible built environments through thoughtlessness. It is another to do it intentionally. Hostile design has emerged as an architectural response to homelessness, specifically rough sleepers. Rough sleepers need a flat surface on which to lie down, but flat surfaces are also a place of rest for other citizens. The unintended consequences are that other people are designed out. See link for my synopsis and the research paper that takes a human rights perspective to the issues.

I came across a thought-provoking video today about the pitfalls of designers can fall into designing products for foreign cultures. It really made me reevaluate some of my past projects, particularly in terms of my own personal bias and assumptions. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/emDRccYs. #design #productdesign #culturalbias

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