Co-creating welcome - design interventions on entrances for thriving commons
Typ
Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Architecture and planning beyond sustainability, MSc
Publicerad
2021
Författare
Björnberg, Maria
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Sammanfattning
This master thesis explores how an embedded co-designer can
contribute to create welcoming processes and places through
shaping design interventions on entrances to commons. The
methods both originate from an ethnographic design approach
as well as an action-research based approach.
The framework proceeds both from theory and examples within
the notions of commons, exploring its resources, community and
commoning, yet also with approaches and tools from the notion
of place making.
The main case of exploration is the peri-urban land-based
commons Eco Agroforestry Center, located in north-east of
Gothenburg, Sweden, with a deepened focus on one of its
entrances to the outdoor site. Based on that entrance, the
specific needs of the commons, as well as the framework, key
principles are developed both to create a welcoming place, but
also a welcoming process.
During the co-creational process four design factors and tools
are developed - movement (threshold theory), way (willow
weaving), form (portal & arches) and function (diverse seatings)
- that are applied to a number of design interventions. Through
the methods of discussions, mapping, site explorations, photosketching,
photo-collages, prototyping, testing, expert-input,
models, building and communication the design interventions are
being shaped.
The culmination of the realised design interventions is a cocreating
exhibition including the intervention artefacts at the site.
However, future interventions are proposed, and two scenarios
are collaged to show potential outcomes: the thriving commons
and the forgotten place.
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Ämne/nyckelord
Commons, place making, design, interventions, co-creation