Abstract
With the decrease in usable land in recent years, people have begun to pay more attention to the renovation of small and micro space in old community space and discussion on urban space have gradually shifted from spatial to social attributes and social meanings. The demonstration of public participation process has been exactly being of significance on urban updating and adaptive reusing of existing stocks. Simultaneously, it has caused rethink about conventional designer-leading projects and enlightened academics about bottom-up concept for renovation. Nevertheless, the existing approaches of public participation is still facing certain issues such as imperfect participation mechanism, unclear-defined authorities and responsibilities, halfway involvement and so on. Through analyzing the renovation progress of the public space of Zhuyuan community, this article is aimed to argue whether the public might continuously and authentically participate to the holistic processes from preliminary design to construction and final operation based on multi-collaborations. And modular design approaches are experimented in order to integrate the variable resources, optimize the spatial functions and provide the ease of construction and assembly. Eventually, the public participation principles and strategies based on the guidance of designers are posed, which might provide a reference for the follow-up researches.
Highlights
Public participatory design in this article refers to plan or design attempting actively involving the public who are empowered and authorized for supervision and advising in the projects’ design, complement and operation processes [1]
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Starting from the perspective of public participation, this paper takes domestic and foreign cases as references and analyzes the role designer plays and corresponding working process and approaches illustrated in the renovation case of Zhuyuan Community Neighborhood Center
Summary
Public participatory design in this article refers to plan or design attempting actively involving the public who are empowered and authorized for supervision and advising in the projects’ design, complement and operation processes [1]. The designer acts as the role of guidance instead of dominance. Feedbacks of the public might contribute to amendment of the sequent renovation results gradually. Community public space here refers to non-commercial but service-oriented interior and exterior space, where accommodates civilians’ daily life and triggers events’ occurring such as multi-functional micro space of community, activity center, pedestrian, small square and pocket park and so on. The author poses the research question: How can designer-guiding approaches be integrated in public participation process and stimulate the aspiration and persistence for co-governance of the community?
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