Tactical Design
Placemaking takes a similar approach by considering the user and modeling the living environment to be more personable. Tactical urbanism is the community members taking action themselves to alter the environment to better fit their needs and inspire community building.
I feel that the combination of these is similar to the discussion we have been having in class about who and how design should happen. Urban design is different because it is a more public realm, but maybe that is the approach we should have to architecture too
Unfortunately, a lot of the time, government entities are against some of these ideas. For instance, city police often oppose the city installing things like benches because they say it creates more problems with the homeless community. As a result, generous buildings and tactical urbanism can wrongly become an 'issue' instead of the social issues they are trying to address. I think it also poses a question of the scope of design and what it is able to address.
ReplyDeleteJohanna, I think it's really interesting relating this topic of 'architecture for whom' with urban design principles. Especially since those principles are utilized for public outdoor spaces. This just stresses the importance of knowing how people want to occupy space, and designing to accommodate different types of users.
ReplyDeleteI think this graphic is super helpful when understanding how urban planning and design can be considered "generous." It's unfortunate that many American cities today lack these aspects of generous design either because of limitations with infrastructure, economic stability, poor policies and planning, and little community engagement. Although an architect may not be able to solve all these problems, they're definitely capable of coordinating, providing, and collaborating with people and other professions to address these issues.
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