Abstract
The last decades in urban design research are characterised by a focus on technological aspects of cities which is commonly known as the smart city strategy. The concerns and interests of citizens are coming to the forefront nowadays with the awareness that a liveable city does not only consist of good infrastructure and sustainable energy supply but also citizen input and feedback. In this paper, we present Citizen Design Science as a new strategy for cities to integrate citizens' ideas and wishes in the urban planning process. The approach is to combine the opportunity of crowdsourcing opinions and thoughts by citizens through modern information and communication technology (ICT) with active design tools. The active design feedback from a city's inhabitants is identified as a yet missing but essential way towards a responsive city. We therefore propose a system to merge Citizen Science and Citizen Design, which requires a structured evaluation process to integrate Design Science methods for urban design.We show examples of existing approaches of Citizen Design Science and present the Quick Urban Analysis Kit (qua-kit) as an application of this methodology. The toolkit allows users to move geometries in given environments and provides the opportunity for non-experts to express their ideas for their neighbourhood or city.
Highlights
Introduction and motivationCities around the world are facing tremendous challenges
The last decades in urban design research are characterised by a focus on technological aspects of cities which is commonly known as the smart city strategy
We present Citizen Design Science as a new strategy for cities to integrate citizens' ideas and wishes in the urban planning process
Summary
Cities around the world are facing tremendous challenges. For example, emerging cities in Asia and Africa often have to deal with unexpected side effects from mass transport, inadequate urban infrastructure, or other environmental side effects due to fast growth of urban areas and demand flexible and adaptive strategies for urban planning. They declare a smart city an “innovative city that uses information and communication technologies (ICT) and other means to improve quality of life, efficiency of urban operation and services, and competitiveness, while ensuring that it meets the needs of present and future generations with respect to economic, social and environmental aspects” The main reason for having the vision of a responsive city for future cities is that mere smart technologies fail to integrate evolving self-organizing entities by dealing with mainly post-occupied spaces and it cannot improve aspects of cities that go beyond quantifiable criteria Such aspects are for instance the quality of life, designated as liveability, or the citizens' identification with a place. Due to the simple handling for the user, we see it as an appropriate, powerful enabler for Citizen Design Science
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