scholarly journals Between Dissent and Consensus, Resistance and Counter-Resistance: Design Practice as a Common Project-Process for Plural Possibilities of Being and Becoming

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-181
Author(s):  
Chiara Del Gaudio ◽  
Samara Tanaka ◽  
Douglas Onzi Pastori
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Dominant Design ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Normative Models ◽  
Design Experience ◽  
Being And Becoming

This paper is a contribution to the discussion on the ethical and political limitations of institutionalised, dominant design practices and on the need to rethink the ways in which they operate. It points out that institutionalised design processes act as a dispositive of power that not only capture and colonise forms of life, but that also shape territories, bodies and languages through normative models that are exogenous to them. This discussion is crucial when thinking about the role that design has played in nurturing current crises. This paper is an inquiry into the possibility of design practice that is not institutionalised either by sovereign designing designers or by subordinated designed users, but that constitutes itself according to dynamics where design emerges as a common project-process of creative possibilities of being and becoming. Crucial aspects for a non-institutionalised design practice are identified through the analysis of a design experience with communities in Rio de Janeiro favelas. This paper shows how this design experience is based on a design approach that, through discursive structures, dynamically supports and is informed by dissent and consensus, and by the interplay between resistance and counter-resistance.

Towards a Culturally Responsive Design Experience: How Students' Community Capital Contribute to their Design Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anilegna Nunez Abreu ◽  
Luis Guardia ◽  
Valerie Vanessa Bracho Perez ◽  
Indhira Maria Hasbun ◽  
Alexandra Coso Strong
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Community Capital ◽  
Responsive Design ◽  
Design Experience

scholarly journals Building Capabilities Through Democratic Dialogues

Design Issues ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 80-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesbeth Huybrechts ◽  
Katrien Dreessen ◽  
Ben Hagenaars
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Railway Track ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Complex Design ◽  
Developing Strategies

Designers are increasingly involved in designing alternative futures for their cities, together with or self-organized by citizens. This article discusses the fact that (groups of) citizens often lack the support or negotiation power to engage in or sustain parts of these complex design processes. Therefore the “capabilities” of these citizens to collectively visualize, reflect, and act in these processes need to be strengthened. We discuss our design process of “democratic dialogues” in Traces of Coal—a project that researches and designs together with the citizens an alternative spatial future for a partially obsolete railway track in the Belgian city of Genk. This process is framed in a Participatory Design approach and, more specifically, in what is called “infrastructuring,” or the process of developing strategies for the long-term involvement of participants in the design of spaces, objects, or systems. Based on this process, we developed a typology of how the three clusters of capabilities (i.e., visualize, reflect, and act) are supported through democratic dialogues in PD processes, linking them to the roles of the designer, activities, and used tools.

scholarly journals Fóruns Híbridos de Participação: no sentido de melhores práticas para a construção da cidade

Revista Prumo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 60-75
Author(s):  
Maíra Machado-Martins ◽  
Patricia Maya-Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Collaborative Processes ◽  
University Partnership ◽  
The City ◽  
Design Experience

This article presents the results of a Project process held in the under-spaces of two viaducts in the Laranjeiras district in the city of Rio de Janeiro. This process is part of a community-university partnership project, the “Square, the Street and the District”, which has been developed by students and professors of different fields and courses. This project aims to emphasize the relevance of interventions in the cities are made by a direct mode of popular participation, both in the elaboration and in the implementation of landscape architecture and urban proposals. A collaborative process was shaped to embody the notion that there is a “local knowledge, which is nurtured by the daily life”, as Milton Santos (1997, p.7) argues. Here, we narrate the methodological construction and the process of design experience in this case at the Laranjeiras.district. With this, we expect to demonstrate how the design and building of the city can be developed thorough participative and collaborative processes. The existence of an assembled and well informed project can be an environment to foster discussion so that more just and appropriate solutions may get forge.

A microcomputer-based analysis and design of air-supported cylindrical membranes

1992 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1032-1040 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Turkkan ◽  
N. K. Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Structure ◽  
Reliable Method ◽  
Approximate Analysis ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Supported Membrane ◽  
Dominant Design ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Design Loads ◽  
Analysis Design

An approximate, simple, and reliable method of analysis is presented for an air-supported cylindrical membrane structure. Furthermore, to use this method of analysis for design purposes, a brief description of dominant design loads and its formulation as applied to air-supported structures is also given based on design practice and experiments. Incorporating both the method of analysis and the described design loads, a microcomputer-based program, coded in MS Quickbasic, has been developed, which is simple to use and completely user friendly.First, the reliability of the approach is established by comparing it with available published studies on circular cylindrical air-supported structures, based on rigorous modelling and analysis. Then, several illustrative examples are presented for different heights and spans under various loading combinations as per current design practice. Key words: air-supported membrane, cylindrical, finite displacement, microcomputer based, approximate, analysis, design.

scholarly journals Performance of reinforced concrete buildings in the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes and seismic design in Japan

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Sarrafzadeh ◽  
Ken J. Elwood ◽  
Rajesh P. Dhakal ◽  
Helen Ferner ◽  
Didier Pettinga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Seismic Design ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Buildings ◽  
Rc Buildings ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes ◽  
2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes

This report outlines the observations of an NZSEE team of practitioners and researchers who travelled to the Kumamoto Prefecture of Japan on a reconnaissance visit following the April 2016 earthquakes. The observations presented in this report are focussed on the performance of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings throughout Kumamoto Prefecture. It was found overall that modern RC buildings performed well, with patterns of damage which highlighted a philosophy of designing stiffer buildings with less of an emphasis on ductile behaviour. To explore this important difference in design practice, the Japanese Building Standard Law (BSL) is summarised and compared with standard New Zealand seismic design practices and evaluation methods.

Unified Design Approach for Rock Fissure Grouting—Best Design Practice for Pre-Grouting of Rock Tunnels in Sweden

Grouting 2017 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Creütz ◽  
Magnus Zetterlund ◽  
Magnus Eriksson ◽  
Thomas Janson ◽  
Thomas Dalmalm
Keyword(s):  
Design Approach ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Rock Tunnels ◽  
Unified Design

Design Style: Changing Dominant Design Practice

Design Issues ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Cherkasky
Keyword(s):  
Design Practice ◽  
Dominant Design ◽  
Design Style

scholarly journals Depicting Architecture: Houses of the Imagination

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mrwa Tawfiq
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Alternative Setting

Depictions (drawings, models) play a significant role in giving architecture form through the use of various techniques and mediums of expression. These forms of depictions invite an experimental design approach and generate critical thinking in design. The aim in this thesis is to look at architecture critically and investigate design approaches to enhance architectural ideas through varying forms of depiction such as drawing, painting, sculpture, and digital media. Experimentally driven design processes have the potential to push ideas to greater heights in the architectural discipline. Architectural depiction that pursues ideas or notions that may never be built are significant forms of production that push design thinking into other territories; they are in and of themselves architecture. Specifically, the design of a ‘House of the Imagination’ becomes a vehicle in the thesis for experimental architectural ideas and provides an alternative setting for architectural form making.

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