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Human-Centered Design Toolkit
For years, businesses have used human-centered design to develop innovative solutions. Why not apply the same approach to overcome challenges in the nonprofit world? This project, funded by International Development Enterprise (IDE) as part of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, sought to provide NGOs and social enterprises with the tools to do just that. IDEO, in collaboration with nonprofit groups ICRW and Heifer International, developed the HCD Toolkit to help international staff and volunteers understand a community’s needs in new ways, find innovative solutions to meet those needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind. The HCD Toolkit was designed specifically for NGOs and social enterprises that work with impoverished communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Urban Social Design – “Arquitectura en Beta”
Nuestros amigos de Ecosistema Urbano desde hace unos meses están trabajando a la puesta en marcha de un nuevo proyecto. Se trata de la asociación Urban Social Design cuyo objetivo es la investigación y promoción de un nuevo ámbito profesional, situado en un punto intermedio entre arquitectura, ingeniería, urbanismo, geografía, política, sociología, informática, economía. Ellos lo describen de la siguiente forma: “La asociación Urban Social Design promueve un nuevo marco de referencia basado en los entornos de trabajo en red, la cultura libre, el uso de las nuevas tecnologías, el procomún, las licencias creative commons, la creación colectiva, la inteligencia colectiva y la innovación social. En 2011 la asociación pondrá en marcha el “Urban Social Design Experience” : una serie de cursos (on-line, de momento) que pretenden presentar enfoques y lineas de trabajo innovadoras en el campo de la Arquitectura y la Gestión Urbana.”With contributions by Maureen Abi Ghanem, Romy Assouad, Hisham Awad, Nicolas Bourquin, Cleo Campert, Joane Chaker, Tony Chakar, Zinab Chahine, Steve Eid, Christian Ernsten, Christiaan Fruneaux, Edwin Gardner, Jeannette Gaussi, David Habchy, Mona Harb, Pascale Harès, Jasper Harlaar, Janneke Hulshof, Hanane Kaï, Karen Klink, Niels Lestrade, Mona Merhi, Elias Moubarak, Tarek Moukaddem, Kamal Mouzawak, Joe Mounzer, Alex Nysten, Nienke Nauta, Ahmad Osman, Haig Papazian, Pieter Paul Pothoven, Rani al Rajji, Joost Janmaat, Jan Rothuizen, Ruben Schrameijer, Reem Saouma, Michael Stanton and George Zouein. Photos: © Nicolas Bourquin <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
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Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism , by Nato Thompson , a curator and producer at Creative Time , and Independent Curators International.
Book Review - Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism
Sidewalk experiments drive new ideas about urban public space
A line has been drawn in the battle over city streets. On a busy Manhattan morning this spring, a comedy troupe drew a chalk divide down the edge of Fifth Avenue, creating one lane for "tourists" and another for "New Yorkers." It was just a joke, but the news quickly spread around the world and inspired copycat initiatives.Illich Ivan La convivencialidad
Las ideologías imperantes sacan a la luz las contradicciones de la sociedad capitalista.
I was asked to write an article around ‘bottom-up planning’ by Architectural Review Australia a while ago. It was published in the last issue, and I’m re-posting here. ‘Bottom-up’ is hardly the most elegant phrase, but I suspect you know what I mean. Either way, I re-cast it in the article as ‘emergent urbanism’ which captured a little more of the non-plan ning approaches I was interested in (note also the blog of same name , which I didn’t know about beforehand). It partly concerns increased transparency over the urban planning process but also, and perhaps more interestingly, how citizens might be able to proactively engage in the creation of their cities.
Emergent Urbanism, or ‘bottom-up planning’
This paper develops a post‐humanist account of urban public space. It breaks with a long tradition that has located the culture and politics of public spaces such as streets and parks or libraries and town halls in the quality of inter‐personal relations in such spaces. Instead, it argues that human dynamics in public space are centrally influenced by the entanglement and circulation of human and non‐human bodies and matter in general, productive of a material culture that forms a kind of pre‐cognitive template for civic and political behaviour. The paper explores the idea of ‘situated surplus’, manifest in varying dimensions of compliance, as the force that produces a distinctive sense of urban collective culture and civic affirmation in urban life. Related
Collective culture and urban public space - City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action
La ciudad contemporánea vive un complejo proceso de transformación. Las relaciones sociales y la vitalidad urbana de los barrios son cada vez más escasas y fragmentadas. El espacio público ha dejado de ser un espacio de oportunidad para la colectividad, sus administradores parecen considerarlo exclusivamente como un espacio problemático y solo actúan para vaciarlo y prevenir cualquier tipo de problema, limitando todo tipo de actividad espontánea de los ciudadanos. Todo queda bajo control y en algunos casos ese control se vuelve casi policial. Como explica Manuel Delgado el espacio público desde su nacimiento con la modernidad se ha configurado como un espacio donde el Estado pretende desmentir la naturaleza asimétrica de las relaciones sociales que administra, ofreciendo el escenario “perfecto” para el sueño imposible del consenso equitativo en el que puede llevar a cabo su función integradora y de mediación .
El espacio público cómo catalizador de colectividades locales
(After the Beyond Media report , here's another guest post by architect and DPR-Barcelona co-founder Ethel Baraona Pohl . This time Ethel has analyzed the communication of architecture and design in the Web 2.0 era, providing some interesting examples on various related issues. Enjoy.)