Designing Difference: Co-Production of Spaces of Potentiality

Abstract: Design and Planning professionals have long been influenced by the belief in physically and spatially deterministic power over people and the environment, a belief that their representations of space become space. As a result the goal of design often becomes “fixing” or directing behavior and culture instead of letting culture happen. This outlook often prevents designers from engaging critically with culture, through representational space and spatial practice, as a crucial, possibly the most crucial, aspect in the design process. Just as human cultures interact to constantly reproduce and co-produce hybrid cultures, the professional designer and those users and experiencers of design (at whatever scale) must interact to co-produce spaces and places of activity. Through a critique of the practice of placemaking, we highlight the need to differentiate between participation and co-production. Understanding participation as one element of the design process and the role of design at

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Urban Planning ; 1 (2016) 1 ; 59-67

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2016
Creator
Wolf, Garrett
Mahaffey, Nathan

DOI
10.17645/up.v1i1.540
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019080214163190568997
Rights
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Wolf, Garrett
  • Mahaffey, Nathan

Time of origin

  • 2016

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