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coming closer St.Giles

use of design skills in urban environmentscollaborative project with 4 classes

Gut Rosenberg 2011 /2012

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challenges

• making things visible: people, opportunities, problems, solutions

• seeing the good core – not the hard core• understanding the “heart” of St.Giles, how it

lives, how it grows• finding a dozen or more good themes• handle cultural and language differences


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opportunities

same as the problems: abandoned houses; empty stores; narrow streets; different people and culture; young people with little money; beautiful places, buildings, gardens without care; heterogeneous mix from young and old; long established and new arrivals; decreasing population



main objectives:

feeding St. Giles with design driven ideas to enable citizen-initiated creation of a new „brand“ St. Giles increase awareness of (hidden) qualities develop dead spots improve communication (in public areas)



objectives

objectives

for students:

understanding complexity teamwork thinking design in urban environments visualisation of ideas

methodologyGut Rosenberg - coming closer - St.Giles

1. general research about cities, developement, social conditions, proved design ideas and solutions, brainstorm

2. fieldwork in St.Giles3. developing ideas, teambuilding4. maintain student work with additional

knowledge by teachers5. implementation / action concept

action plan

2011 week 40 – 44: student research, generals about urban development, concepts of communication, teambuilding

2011 week 45: Field study St.Giles2011 week 46 – 51: developing projects, Input according to requirements: Trends and solutions:

Urban planning, traffic, energy, housing, work, health, education etc.

2012 week 1 – 8 reimplementation, presentation



future scenario

• changing peoples mind is the most sustainable method of changing urban life

• small impact – continuous change of behavior• changing communication by changing

environmental (de-)signs • seeds for vital identity



design role design is a point of view – and a different way

of understanding cities, peoples and interactions

changing perspective and significance is vital• design is costumer orientated (art)• the design process refers very much to a living

organism • making beautiful things sharpens the mind



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