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Shifting Participatory Design Approaches For Increased Resilience
Get PDFSocial distancing restrictions imposed by the global outbreak of COVID-19 exposed vulnerabilities in traditional User-Centered Design processes. This paper presents a shift in methodological thinking and deployment of participatory processes toward a more dynamic and resilient approach of user-centered design in a multi-year joint academia-industry design project. We moved beyond an overreliance on resource-intensive formal discrete events – such as in-person design workshops, focus groups, or traditional field studies and observations – toward including more continuous inputs to create a more sustainable and fluid approach within a living lab ecosystem. User-centered data collection methods were organized in a framework across three dimensions of interaction: 1) Communication; 2) Timing; and 3) Presence. Expanding methodological options along these differing dimensions increased opportunities for more diversified inputs and sample recruitment, while increasing overall data and design feedback collected. Lowering participation and knowledge sharing thresholds enabled more continuous, inclusive involvement of key stakeholders throughout design processes.publishedVersio
Wasted Potential - An Exploration into Food Waste
No full text‘If food loss and waste were a country, it would be the third biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions.’
The only way to tackle a problem of this magnitude is through a series of small steps and changes.
This explorative industrial design project aims to improve the users’ relationship with food and encourage a behavioural shift to lower their waste and its impact.
SVING is a new fridge design that utilises an innovative rotary shelf system that increases visibility and accessibility to the contents of your fridge. It aims to help improve a person’s relationship with their fridge, making it harder to hide, ignore and forget about food, whilst also reminding them of what they still have.
This design direction takes fridges into the 21st century.submittedVersio
Learning Center of Comfort Women
No full textDuring World War II, a large number of women from Japanese-occupied territories were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army. These "comfort women" were imprisoned in many comfort stations. From 2014 to 2016, one well-preserved comfort station in Nanjing, China, the Liji Lane Comfort Station, was renovated and transformed into a historical museum. Due to the lack of public education space in this museum, a new learning center is proposed next to the historical site. Contrast to the narrow and dark space in historical buildings, the new learning center is defined by eight gardens.
A Garden
A garden corresponds to a building where comfort women were imprisoned.
It is an antithesis to the site, an untold dream of victims.
A garden opens to the sky, disconnected from the outside.
It represents freedom and protection.
A garden is a fragment of nature turned into an ideal form of beauty.
It represents human fantasy for nature and paradise.
Eight Gardens
Eight gardens correspond to the group of comfort women.
Eight gardens form a community, a place of collective fantasy.
Eight gardens are different and dispersed, yet interconnected by emotions.
Eight gardens create continual shifts between nature and interior, between light and dark.
To better relate gardens to both victims and visitors, I chose eight relevant emotions as themes: mourning, loneliness, nostalgia, serenity, sorrow, longing, reflection and meditation. They are a mix of victims and visitors’ feelings, creating a dualism in interpretation. Different materials, plants and space in gardens lead people through a journey of tangible emotions.
Gardens are hidden behind solid concrete walls that function as the only load-bearing walls in the building. To achieve a space without columns, a wooden truss roof is applied to solve the cantilever issue.submittedVersio
Diamond Village
No full textThe basis for my diploma is a very subjective experience I had with my grandfather when he was admitted to a nursing home back in 2019. He was very ill with dementia and thrown into an environment that was foreign to him. Putting people with dementia illness in an hospital-like environment is not helping them improving their quality of life, it is just sustaining them a little longer.
Todays conventional nursing home is not focusing on those with dementia. To change this I believe that the institutional hospital ward should be replaced by a homely environment as close to the one we are all used to in our everyday life.
An environment that is familiar and friendly, not sterile and bereft of activity. Diamond Village takes basis in the dementia village typology, but discards the closed enclave and opens it up. In a typical dementia village that is based on the Hogeweyk model from the early 2000s the ”village” is more or less closed off, and although there are a lot of activities ment to improve life for the residents, there´s little interaction with the outside. The activities are not real programs, but scenography for the residents. What if it´s not just scenography, but something real. What if they actually live the same community as you and I.
The Diamond Village is made up of 6 seperate buildings all housing different activities that are open for everyone during the day, and closes off during the evening. Each building houses it´s own apartment group with all necessary ”server” programs.
A common symptom of dementia is restlessness and what typically happens in a conventional somatic hospital are dementia patients bumping into each ends of a corridor, confused and frustrated. In Diamond Village dynamic wandering routes are established both indoors and outdoors to prevent this. The outdoors are important for everyone - even those who are very ill.
The project is therefore located ajacent to one of the only primeval forests located inside a city. This forest is called Svartdalsparken.
Branching out from the site are hiking routes that takes you in to the forest, and is connected to existing hiking routes. Another form of outdoor activity are gardens, where residents can cultivate their own food. Synergetic to this there is a store where the public can buy fresh food grown in the gardens as well as whatever is made in the hobbyroom and workshops. There is also a swimming pool with a rehabilitation center that also focuses on research, attempting to innovate new ways of treating dementia patients.
Diamond Village is about creating an environment where the weakest in society isn´t just surviving, but thriving. But they are also a part of the general society.submittedVersio
Reimagine a Factory
Get PDFThe city of Fredrikstad is proud of its industrial history. Norsk Teknisk Porselensfabrikk (NTP) is the only living evidence from the industrialization along the river Glomma. Today, almost all industry is gone, and have been replaced with housing and commercial developments. The project is a critique of the ongoing densification strategies of Fredrikstad and other cities, where production is replaced with housing. In fact, the site of NTP is suggested densified with 140%. In light of the city’s rich industrial history, why do not the Municipality want to keep production facilities in the urban fabric?
This project will investigate how historic buildings and closed programs be combined with new structures and public programs. In addition, what is the value of industrial architecture, and how can it facilitate spaces for new programs. How could you work with different zones of new/old, public/private and closed/transparent? What is porcelain and its architectural potential?
Through careful analyzes, value assessment and interventions, this project proposes a preservation strategy to keep the factory program in cities, and present how valuable urban production can be in combination with a synergetic program. In this diploma project, a new preservation strategy is explored, named the Artery. Creating a new toolbox, that can connect the public with the confined production facilities. As a contrast to a typical masterplan strategy, the Artery will work gradually to transform different buildings and test out different concepts to allow changes along the way. It is important to ensure a continuation of the production in the future, and the project scheme will allow this to happen.
Working strongly with transparency, on site-produced products, circulation and a gradual development of the site, I wanted to create a toolbox to preserve the site as an operational industrial place. By removing, re-insulating and adding porcelain as an architectural element, the project resulted both as a concept that can hopefully be used on other urban industrial sites, and also create site-specific architecture.submittedVersio
Runde Coastal Trail
No full textSituated on the pristine west coast of Norway, Runde Coastal Trail offers a pedestrian route in an exposed tidal landscape dominated by pebble beaches, protruding ridges and rock formations.
The trail moves through topographical transitions, ebbing and flowing water, beach meadow, seaweed, an active birdlife and grazing sheep. It is routed just above the high tide line, and slightly raised above ground to allow the tidal water to flow underneath, without flooding the trail.
The approximately 3.8 km trail is constructed with steel frames and permeable grates, which protect the tidal flora underneath by avoiding trampling and allowing sunlight, water and air to filter through.
The ebb and flow of the tides and the harsh weather provides a dynamic landscape scene throughout the day and year. The trail is tightly adapted to the landscape, and due to varying topographical conditions, the trail changes from hugging the ground to being elevated throughout the sequence.
The goal of the project is to lead people into a tidal landscape to experience the rhythms of tidal water and the beauty of seaweed. Through non-destructive, biodiversity enhancing and socially adapted design, the project aims to connect humans to a tidal landscape and to create awareness of the vulnerable landscape where land meets the sea.submittedVersio
Framtid for Finnmark – an alternative model for life in Gamvik
No full textAt the end of World War II, the region of Finnmark was systematically destroyed by retreating Wehrmacht forces. The entire population was forcefully evacuated, and all built structures were burnt to the ground. Immediately following the war, a reconstruction of the region began. The reconstruction brought with it a new model for life in Finnmark, rooted in the ideals of social democracy and modernisation. Through a great effort, this model was implemented throughout the region in record time. Continued state intervention during the 1960s and decentralisation policies during the 1970s helped keep the welfare state institutions, and thus the post-war model, intact. Through a continued dismantling of the welfare state following the 1980s, the post-war model has become antiquated and unreliable. In Finnmark, the tendency of corporatisation and centralisation has resulted in a series of continuous crises of unemployment and population decline.
For many, the solution seems to lie in a reestablishment of industry and institutions, following the welfare model. This project is an attempt at looking the other way - towards the future, instead of the past. The aim of the project is to imagine a way out of the downward spiral by following the trajectory of modernisation through to its conclusion, rather than trying to cling on to the past. The project asks: Is it time for a second reconstruction?submittedVersio
A Primary School in Vienna
No full textThe primary school in the middle of Vienna was thought out of a wish to create a special environment for children and their fantasy.
It proposes a learning environment, where children move between different spaces and courtyards purposefully and with autonomy.
The essence of the school lies in the constant interaction with a landscape consisting out of different courtyards, that are multiplied through reflections in the low-iron reflective glass, which is the main construction material.
Each classroom is created using 2 layers of glass, with a functional thermal buffer zone in between.
In this school environment, the material (nature) and the immaterial (its reflection) blur into each other, forming the phenomenon of an endless landscape in the middle of the city.submittedVersio
CityMaker
Get PDFCityMaker explores the digital communication tools for citizen participation, in the early city planning process.
There is a broad consensus among city designers about the optimal design features of public urban spaces for people, but the residents of the urban environment have been neglected in the process. The city is not only managed by the powerful politicians, designed by the architects, but also co-owned by all people living in the city. They all have rights to express their opinions on the public space. It is time we address the needs of people so they can participate as fully as possible in society.
Citizen participation would help but is not an easy work. We still have lots of challenges in today’s society. Why don’t most people participate? What can they participate in? How can they participate?
See interactive prototypes here: https://bit.ly/3v6v2JM
This project is designed for two target groups and tests four concepts. Firstly, I started with a user-centered perspective. I explored different interactive ways for people to initiate proposals, which are simple, straight forward, and time saving. Then, the text, image and drawing as a format of data is collected from people. The second target group are the experts working for the city, how would they use the data for designing? I showcased applicable situations in use.
The design project lifts crowdsourcing data to a higher place, which would be significantly valuable for the experts in the city to evaluate and learn from. The project is explored at small, medium, and large scales, and evaluated for how applicable they are in both the short and long run.
This ideal situation won’t be realized in one or two days, but could be a very valuable thinking around how the future participatory city could be.submittedVersio