Participation
"The act of taking part in an activity or event"
(Oxford Advanced American Dictionary)
Participatory Design (PD) is a design methodology that attempts to actively involve all stakeholders (e.g. clients, users, public) during the design process to help ensure the result meets their needs and concerns.
Rather than design “for” people, Participatory Design emphasis on design “with” people. It focuses on the process and procedure of design where the design solution is derived from the participatory process.
While this methodology was originally rooted in Scandinavian labor unions in the 70s, to democratically empower workers and allow workers to determine the shape and scope of new technologies introduced into the workplace, it gives rise to an alternative movement of determining our built environment and how citizens can involve in the making of the city.
Placemaking, co-creation, co-design are popular terms that are originally derived from the term “Participatory Design”.
Methodology
For a deep and extended participatory process in the production of architecture:
