Alejandro Aravena: My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process
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In this TED Talk Alejandro highlights several design projects he has worked on that called for participation from the communities in order to solve problems that affect them. In the talk, He says that, “participatory design is not a hippie, romantic, let’s-all-dream-together-about- the-future-of-the-city kind of thing… It is mainly trying to identify with precision what is the right question”.
What is the right question?
The talk more than anything showcases the Idea Sanders mentions in the article ‘Co-creation and the new landscapes of design.’ that the application of participatory design practices (both at the moment of idea generation and continuing throughout the design process at all key moments of decision) to very large-scale problems will change design and may change the world and could therefore be used effectively as a method/form of collective thinking and inquiry a designer could utilize in order to solve complex problems.
References:
Aravena, A. (2014, October). My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process. Retrieved December Sunday 28, 2014, from TEDGlobal 2014: http://www.ted.com/talks/alejandro_aravena_my_architectural_philosophy_bring_the_community_into_the_process
Sanders, E. B.-N., & Stappers, P. J. (2008, June 24). Co-creation and the new landscapes of design. CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts, 4(1), 5-8.