Change by Design: Imagining Equitable Cities
- Submitting institution
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London Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 17.32
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Design Processes
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2020
- URL
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https://issuu.com/arts_londonmet/docs/de_carli_change_by_design
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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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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- Research group(s)
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4 - The Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies (CUBE)
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Change by Design: Imagining Equitable Cities is a longer-form output documenting the process and findings from eight years of collaborative practice research conducted by the Author with non-profit organisation ASF–UK. The sustained research effort documented in the output is grounded in the collection and analysis of a large body of material across three cities. The primary sources underpinning the output were complex and difficult to access, and were analysed through an extended process of collaborative and creative enquiry. As such the output examines questions of participatory design in considerable depth, from multiple perspectives and in relation to multiple contexts.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This portfolio illustrates key research insights from the creative work undertaken by
ASF–UK as part of the programme: Change by Design. It explores participatory design
and planning as tools for advancing social justice and deepening democracy in urban
decision-making. Through knowledge co-production and capacity development, Change
by Design supports marginalised groups, so they can affect change in the cities they live
in.
This portfolio asks how participatory design processes contribute to inclusive urban
governance in contexts of intense inequality and to:
● to critical urban learning and expanding the capacity of urban dwellers to take part in urban governance?
● to the emergence of new, community-based networks and institutions that represent marginalised groups?
● to decision-making that responds to the diverse needs and desires of marginalised groups?
Change by Design initiatives develop in collaboration with local stakeholders and employ an original methodology for participatory design and planning. The methodology is structured into four stages and three scales of design, utilising a wide range of participatory visual and spatial tools, from drawing-elicited interviews to mapping workshops and participatory modelling.
This body of work has been published in journal articles, project reports, and planning documents, and has been disseminated through talks and symposia in academic and professional environments. Training material derived from Change by Design informs the course: Challenging Practice, run by ASF-International. The methodology was presented at United Nations events in 2012, 2014 and 2016.
The Change by Design methodology has influenced community-led design and planning processes and policy in Quito, Cape Town, Freetown, and globally. It has influenced future practice by informing teaching and research in prestigious UK universities (e.g. UCL, University of Oxford, University of Sheffield) and through the delivery of specialist training at ASF-International and the UN.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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