Participatory design in architectural practice: Changing practices in future making in uncertain times. (November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Luck, Rachael
• Is Part Of: Design studies. Volume 59(2018)
• Page Start: 139
• Page End: 157
• Publication Date: 2018-11
• Subjects: participatory design -- architectural design -- user participation -- design research -- epistemology; Design -- Periodicals; 745.405
• DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2018.10.003
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0142-694X

Abstract

Abstract : The ways that architects invite participation in the design of future environments has evolved. This paper traces a history of architectural participatory design from the mid-twentieth century. This exploration suggests that current interest in participatory design reflects more progressive forms of architectural practice, where participatory interventions in everyday settings acknowledge and embrace value-pluralism. Architects practicing today engage people in design processes in different ways and at different scales of future-making. Improvising whilst learning, becoming and living are contemporary themes in participatory design, able to accommodate uncertain and changing situations. These understandings of architectural participation pose new questions for practice-based design research, concerning the relevance and impact of architectural research, as well as the education of architects for twenty-first century practice. Highlights: 50-year history of architect's changing spatial practices in participatory design. Transition from discursive practices to concrete interventions in everyday environments. Scaling up from building projects to infrastructuring places, cities, regions. Poses questions to research, impact and education in architecture and design. PD in conversation with practice-based research with real-world impact.