Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice in the Urban Design Process: Towards Multidisciplinary Success Considerations

2019 ◽  
pp. 261-274
Author(s):  
Moureen Asaad ◽  
Marwa Khalifa ◽  
Ahmed S. Abd Elrahman
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Theory And Practice

scholarly journals Specific problems of media facade design

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasna Cikic-Tovarovic ◽  
Nenad Sekularac ◽  
Jelena Ivanovic-Sekularac
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Media Logic ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Border Areas

During the last years we have been facing a growing need of involving architects into processes of modern city medialization. Transposing contemporary media logic into architecture must be accompanied by qualitative answers within architectural theory and practice. The field of media facade is interdisciplinary - not only does it involve research within architecture and urbanism, but also within some border areas of technology, urban design, art, culture, media and marketing. Media facade design process involves analyses of some specific design aspects.

scholarly journals Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice in the Urban Design Process: Towards a Multi-disciplinary Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Moureen Asaad ◽  
Marwa Khalifa ◽  
Ahmed S. Abd Elrahman
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Living Organism ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Success Criteria ◽  
The City ◽  
City Form

The city is a complex living organism mostly affected by decisions taken whether they are political, organizational, or design decisions. Such decisions vary in scale starting with planning, urban design, and architectural scales. Urban design has been commonly agreed to occupy a hypothetical intersection between planning and architecture. It emerged to bridge the disciplinary gap between architecture and planning. Since 1960s urban design literature attempted to define what good urban design and good city form is, and the process to achieve it; yet in practice the end product doesn’t always achieve high quality in terms of urban design initial objectives. Over the last decades, the gap between disciplinary dreams in theory and real outcomes translated as urban design product of different practices has been growing in the field of urban planning and urban design. Since the urban design product does not meet its expected objectives in theory then something must be wrong with it, and a thorough investigation must come in order to perceive such gap. The Research aims to answer two main questions regarding urban design through examining the Urban Design Process; the first is whether the urban design process is capable to bridge the multidisciplinary gap? And the second question is with the little knowledge and lack of success criteria for the urban design process; how can the success of urban design be measured?

scholarly journals EXPANDING DEPTH AND MEANING WITHIN URBAN DESIGN PROCESSES THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF COMPLEXITY AND EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Marta Miguel ◽  
Richard Laing ◽  
Marianthi Leon ◽  
Seaton Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Specific System ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Changing Practice ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Cyclical Process

Previous research has established the value of regarding cities as complex systems, and as systems which will evolve over time. The research reported in this paper concerns the development of an approach to urban design and management which recognises the complexities of change resulting from design-led urban interventions. The research commenced with a study of urban design and urban management processes, and the manner in which they have been studied in an academic context. The system aims to guide the processes of urban design so that it can be implemented within a cyclical process of evaluation and application. The system aids communication across design teams and improves clarity within the design process for the designers themselves. The specific system also aspires to interconnect theory with practice, while supporting designers to be inclusive and holistic. The paper describes a case study where the framework was applied within an academic setting, related to real urban environments in Singapore. It validates the model’s ability to guide students through the design process, give depth to their analysis of urban systems and meaning to their designs. Action research was implemented, to reflect the need for a “practice-changing practice” methodology, that supports a greater understanding of the relationship between theory and practice.

The urban design process

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Robert Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process

Research on the Green Urban Morphology Based on BIM - A Case Study on the Urban Design in Nanhe City

2013 ◽  
Vol 368-370 ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
Ping Shu ◽  
Jun Xu ◽  
Li Jun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Building Information Model ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Spatial Morphology

Based on theoretical studies of the urban spatial morphology, this paper introduces advanced concepts and methods of BIM (Building Information Model) into the urban design in Nanhe City ,and then respectively makes innovations of the urban design practice supported by BIM technology in the process of design, optimization and implementation of the program, attempting to explore BIM-based design patterns of the urban spatial morphology to make the traditional urban design process more rational and scientific, to expect to reach the green and sustainable urban spatial morphology.

scholarly journals Creating a Virtual Leader Development Course Using the Design Thinking Process for Innovation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hinck ◽  
Steven Davis ◽  
Justin Longmire ◽  
JB Byrnes
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Leader Development ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Multiple Cycles ◽  
Thinking Process ◽  
Development Course

This paper examines how a U.S. Air Force (USAF) faculty team reimagined and redesigned an in-person Leader Development Course (LDC) to a virtual version (vLDC). Using the Design Thinking Process for Innovation (DTPI) and action research methods, a new, virtual course was imagined, designed, tested, and improved over a six-cycle-process. Data was collected via multiple sources from 121 participants (19 faculty/staff and 102 students) and analyzed using manual coding and NVivo Software. Results are organized into 22 categories under four themes (general course design, student experience, instructor experience and faculty development, and technology experience) showing a progressive refinement with key lessons learned that led to the final creation of the new virtual course. Of the five key features in action research (actions matter, context-specific research, multiple cycles and phases, inclusion of people as research target, and reflections), participants reported that multiple cycles and reflections were most important in relation to the DTPI so that change could be enacted that reflected participant voices in the design process of the virtual course. The application of the DTPI using action research methods produced results and lessons learned in the design process that contribute to the theory and practice on developing and teaching in a virtual learning environment. The study fills a gap in the scholarly field and informs other institutions on the process, failures, and successes of course redesign to a virtual version.Keywords: design thinking process for innovation, action research, USAF, leader development

scholarly journals Research on strategies of low-impact urban design in China. Take Beijing waterfront urban design evaluation as an example

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cong Cao ◽  
◽  
Suning Xu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Low Impact Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Design System ◽  
Design Evaluation ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Design Environment ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
Low Impact Design ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to provide theoretical method support and practical experience for creating environment friendly urban space by low-impact urban design methods, and discussed on two aspects of theory and practice. Firstly, the definition of low-impact urban design in the context of Chinese cities is expounded by combing the development stage of urban design environment view and analysing the development needs of Chinese cities. Then, it discusses the framework content and evolution process of low-impact urban design in China, and puts forward the view that low-impact development elements and low-impact design control elements are mutually dependent and mutually reinforcing. Next, the objects and related characteristics of low-impact urban design are explained from multiple perspectives, as object system, object composition and basic characteristics. Relevant strategy formulation is the focus of this paper. First, it is necessary to establish a low-impact urban design system in coordination with legal planning, so as to help implement the low-impact design concept with the seriousness and execution of legal planning. Secondly, the framework of low-impact urban design control elements including 5 different layers is established, which can effectively evaluate and optimize the impact of design results on the city. Thirdly, the value evaluation mechanism of dynamic cycle is proposed, which is helpful to the implementation of low-impact urban design and the restoration of design intention. Finally, the paper takes Beijing waterfront urban design evaluation as an example to apply the low impact evaluation model proposed in this paper, and satisfactory results were obtained

scholarly journals Landscape and Consumer Culture in the Design Work of Humphry Repton and Gordon Cullen: A Methodological Framework

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mira Engler
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Design Studies ◽  
Consumer Markets ◽  
Humphry Repton

The practice of landscape and townscape or urban design is driven and shaped by consumer markets as much as it is by aesthetics and design values. Since the 1700s gardens and landscapes have performed like idealized lifestyle commodities via attractive images in mass media as landscape design and consumer markets became increasingly entangled. This essay is a methodological framework that locates landscape design studies in the context of visual consumer culture, using two examples of influential and media-savvy landscape designers: the renowned eighteenth-century English landscape gardener Humphry Repton and one of Britain’s top twentieth-century draftsmen and postwar townscape designers, Gordon Cullen. Rather than aesthetics and meaning, I focus on the designer’s motives, working modes, and visual marketing strategies for building audiences and markets. At the heart of these strategies is the performance of images in consumerist culture. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, I show that they persuasively fashioned, “packaged,” and “sold” their landscape commodity through attractive and marketable image-text products. The study highlights the specific role that each man assumed vis-à-vis his work environment and consumers, the pictorial sources that each used, and the media that broadcast and shaped each designer’s legacy. Despite the different historical contexts and the particular logics of the economy and mass media apparatuses of the time, this consumerist-focused study also reveals parallels between these men’s motives and image-making and marketing strategies. For instance, their drive for both professional and laypeople appeal led them to bridge theory and practice, use the “art of compromise,” and devise palatable and alluring images. By using consumerist arts perspectives in landscape and urban design studies, I offer a new interpretive path toward a historical knowledge that incorporates the landscape designer’s modus operandi and explains the role of mass media and marketing in the production and consumption of landscape.

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