Design practice for blue green infrastructure in the context of urban resilience
- Submitting institution
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Rebolledo-Bustamante2
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.3390/IFOU2018-05979
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience
- First page
- 1
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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https://sciforum.net/paper/view/conference/5979
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- BEGIN (Blue Green Infrastructures through Social Innovation) is a 4-year project funded by Interreg Europe. It brings together ten cities to help them develop strategies for climate change adaptation and water resilience with a focus on empowering multiple stakeholders to contribute to the design, construction and maintenance of BGIs. RCA’s research efforts are aimed at creating design tools to enable cities to embrace social innovation approaches through the development of a toolkit of methods and processes to support the engagement of citizens. Rebolledo’s research is concerned with design-led social innovation tools and methods. In this project he explores the roles and relationships between citizens, communities and local governments in the context of social innovation processes. The project combines research into citizen participation techniques with studio-led action research. Within these studio projects, the teams engage with diverse stakeholders to reframe the challenge of BGI implementation. They then work with them to design proposals for service interventions that might reshape relationships in the community to find new values, ultimately allowing them to take ownership of their public spaces to enable BGI implementation. The principal insights are in new methods for social innovation refined and tested with city partners. The RCA researchers led by Rebolledo worked with three partners (Bradford, Kent and Enfield) alongside the urban planners and local authorities. The research demonstrates the relevance of design practice in developing urban resilience through BGI. Considering BGI as a ‘wicked problem’, design practice demonstrates its potential for fundamentally transforming the traditional way in which public services are designed and implemented. Findings, tools and methods have been shared with the partners engaged with the project, and adopted not only by the immediate partners but also Dordrecht and Antwerp. More: www.begin-socialinnovation.com.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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