Hello Jean,
Apologies for the delay in response to your query...
Here in Montreal at the School of Architecture, Daniel Pearl is doing some
grass-roots sustainable design initiatives through his concept of
'integrated design process' and working with multiple stakeholders, in
particular community organizations and users. The community involvement is
quite significant and his participation would surely add to your conference.
Would you like me to put you in touch with him?
Regards,
Tiiu Poldma
University of Montreal
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Hello,
For the yearly conference that I am organising each January, I would
like to organise a session that would focus on design activities that
occur at rather low levels, such as communities.
The point I wish to put into discussion is, roughly said, the
following : most design policies tend to be driven by economical
considerations and support actions tend to be "top-down" (actions are
defined using rather ex-ante criteria, set from governments towards
the players themselves).
Now, I want to figure out whether there is a viable alternative (in
terms of policy making) to start from existing actions, set up by
whatever organisation (NGO, cooperative, voluntary networks), and
figure out whether it would not be effective to either inject some
funds, structural support, or demultiply them in different contexts.
I know that this happens in communities, mostly when it comes to
local urban planning or architecture. And I shall take here design in
a broad sense as well.
What I am asking you to help me with is directions towards cases,
examples, that you might know or have heard of.
You could mail me off list. If other people are interested, I will
compile the information and post it back to the list.
Best regards and thanks in advance,
Jean
Jean Schneider
Chargé de projet APCI / Project manager APCI
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