Beyond Design and Participation: The ‘Thought for Food’ Project in Flanders, Belgium

Cox, Veerle; Goethals, M.; Meulder, Bruno De; Schreurs, Jan; Moulaert, Frank

doi:10.1080/13574809.2014.923742

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“…In this themed issue, papers by Stefansdottir (2014), Dewaelheyns, Vanempten, Bomans, Verhoeve and Gulinck (2014), Cox, Goethals, De Meulder, Schreurs and Moulaert (2014), Tardiveau and Mallo (2014) and Sankalia (2014), as well as the paper by Heylighen and Herssen (2014) (part of this themed issue but published in 19:3) explore integrative spatial quality in a transdisciplinary manner.…”

Section: Going Beyond 'Designerly' and 'Planningly' Ways Of Knowingmentioning

confidence: 98%

Integrative Spatial Quality: A Relational Epistemology of Space and Transdisciplinarity in Urban Design and Planning

Khan¹,

Moulaert²,

Schreurs³

et al. 2014

Journal of Urban Design

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Section: Going Beyond 'Designerly' and 'Planningly' Ways Of Knowingmentioning

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Integrative Spatial Quality: A Relational Epistemology of Space and Transdisciplinarity in Urban Design and Planning

Khan¹,

Moulaert²,

Schreurs³

et al. 2014

Journal of Urban Design

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“…Design-based 7 (3%) Beyond design and participation: The 'thought for food' project in Flanders, Belgium (Cox et al 2014).…”

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“…Within a participatory urban design framework, authors used designbased scenarios as the methodological tool for participants to discuss and understand opposing viewpoints about a landscape enhancement project in Belgium (Cox et al 2014).…”

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Activating social change together: A qualitative synthesis of collaborative change research, evaluation and design literature

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Researchers, evaluators and designers from an array of academic disciplines and industry sectors are turning to participatory approaches as they seek to understand and address complex social problems. We refer to participatory approaches that collaboratively engage/partner with stakeholders in knowledge creation/problem solving for action/social change outcomes as collaborative change research, evaluation and design (CCRED). We further frame CCRED practitioners by their desire to move beyond knowledge creation for its own sake to implementation of new knowledge as a tool for social change. In March and May of 2018, we conducted a literature search of multiple discipline-specific databases seeking collaborative, change-oriented scholarly publications. The search was limited to include peer-reviewed journal articles, with English language abstracts available, published in the last five years. The search resulted in 526 citations, 236 of which met inclusion criteria. Though the search was limited to English abstracts, all major geographic regions (North America, Europe, Latin America/Caribbean, APAC, Africa and the Middle East) were represented within the results, although many articles did not state a specific region. Of those identified, most studies were located in North America, with the Middle East having only one identified study. We followed a qualitative thematic synthesis process to examine the abstracts of peer-reviewed articles to identify practices that transcend individual disciplines, sectors and contexts to achieve collaborative change. We surveyed the terminology used to describe CCRED, setting, content/topic of study, type of collaboration, and related benefits/outcomes in order to discern the words used to designate collaboration, the frameworks, tools and methods employed, and the presence of action, evaluation or outcomes. Forty-three percent of the reviewed articles fell broadly within the social sciences, followed by 26 percent in education and 25 percent in health/medicine. In terms of participants and/or collaborators in the articles reviewed, the vast majority of the 236 articles (86%) described participants, that is, those who the research was about or from whom data was collected. In contrast to participants, partners/collaborators (n=32; 14%) were individuals or groups who participated in the design or implementation of the collaborative change effort described. In terms of the goal for collaboration and/or for doing the work, the most frequently used terminology related to some aspect of engagement and empowerment. Common descriptors for the work itself were ‘social change’ (n=74; 31%), ‘action’ (n=33; 14%), ‘collaborative or participatory research/practice’ (n=13; 6%), ‘transformation’ (n=13; 6%) and ‘community engagement’ (n=10; 4%). Of the 236 articles that mentioned a specific framework or approach, the three most common were some variation of Participatory Action Research (n=30; 50%), Action Research (n=40; 16.9%) or Community-Based Participatory Research (n=17; 7.2%). Approximately a third of the 236 articles did not mention a specific method or tool in the abstract. The most commonly cited method/tool (n=30; 12.7%) was some variation of an arts-based method followed by interviews (n=18; 7.6%), case study (n=16; 6.7%), or an ethnographic-related method (n=14; 5.9%). While some articles implied action or change, only 14 of the 236 articles (6%) stated a specific action or outcome. Most often, the changes described were: the creation or modification of a model, method, process, framework or protocol (n=9; 4%), quality improvement, policy change and social change (n=8; 3%), or modifications to education/training methods and materials (n=5; 2%). The infrequent use of collaboration as a descriptor of partner engagement, coupled with few reported findings of measurable change, raises questions about the nature of CCRED. It appears that conducting CCRED is as complex an undertaking as the problems that the work is attempting to address.

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“…Planning processes involve a wide range of actors that have to be concerted, convinced or consulted. There has been a surge in tools and methods designed for facilitators to select and integrate many of these actors in planning processes, most recently under the banner of 'Participatory Design Workshops' (Cox et al, 2014). Most of these tools have led to disappointing results.…”

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Curating complexity: An artful approach for real-world system transitions

Kampelmann

Kaethler

Hill³

2018

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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This paper puts forward a 'curatorial approach' to systems transitions, which is a novel, practical and transparent way to deal with participation in complex and conflictual contexts. We argue that the complexity of transitions cannot be adequately addressed through traditional analytical tools. Alternatively, we propose an approach that can engage with multiple ways of knowing and expression, sustaining and developing a sense of 'meaning' in the planning process. We situate this within a systems perspective that combines individual and structural actions for vision creation. This is explored in the case study of a large peri-urban asset in Rome. "esperti locali ed internazionali sono stati i nostri canali imprese e cittadini nel lavoro sono stati vicini terra, acqua e sole più fatti e meno parole" Fragment of a poem composed by participants during the workshop in Rome.

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Beyond Design and Participation: The ‘Thought for Food’ Project in Flanders, Belgium

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Integrative Spatial Quality: A Relational Epistemology of Space and Transdisciplinarity in Urban Design and Planning

Integrative Spatial Quality: A Relational Epistemology of Space and Transdisciplinarity in Urban Design and Planning

Activating social change together: A qualitative synthesis of collaborative change research, evaluation and design literature

Curating complexity: An artful approach for real-world system transitions

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