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The CoP-CITIES is put forward to foster the engagement of a wide range of stakeholders, from ‘traditional’ ones to urban communities. In combination with top-down approach to urban policy, co-creation gives citizens, local officials, researchers and the private sector an equal say in the decision-making process. Fundamentally, the CoP-CITIES aims to be instrumental for the localisation of policy principles, beyond traditional and formal consultation processes.
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By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries
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The objectives of participation of public authorities, public agencies and the general public in urban planning and design processes are:
- Broadening consideration documents (documents produced by discussion groups) (information function),
- Increasing participation of general public in the long, mid-, and short term (strengthening democracy),
- Speeding up the participatory processes (enabling competitiveness),
- Improving influence in planning processes (legal protection),
- Raising the acceptance of planning projects.
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The rapid rise in Urban population calls for a need for a more democratized method of designing of the urban spaces. Alongside this urbanization strategy the education of the citizens of these spaces towards a critical thinking approach in relation to their actions and decisions has become crucial. The policies towards the goal of community participation have been put forward however, there is still a lack of a platform that encompasses the full range of these plans to action.
Precedent Study – Extract
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The space for the creation of a digital platform that facilitates the increased involvement of the society in the design of the urban fabric while also providing a channel for the architectural education of the citizens to initiate an open dialogue of how their decisions impact the environment, and creating a channel of communication between the community, the designers, and the administration.
Project Introduction
“Urbanify” is a technology driven participatory design forum that encourages a higher community involvement into urban design and planning. The forum aims to create a collective decision making process towards city planning by creating a database of public demands and needs through the platform utilizing the power of real-time visualization.
Creating a standardized workflow towards participation that can be replicated in a modular manner for urban projects using the provided research to increase user engagement towards a collective decision making process.
Project Objectives
Following the research, the app is to be designed for each user’s common and unique needs
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Next Steps
- Assigning weight to various factors affecting impacts
- Finishing the Unity Visualization portal
- Optimization of projection mapping
- Fabrication and production of the physical model
- Alpha testing with peers
Urbanify is a project of IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed in the MAA02 in 2022/2023 by: Student: Perniyal Waseem and Faculty: Areti Markopoulou, and Nikol Kirova