Breaking down the silos through geodesign – Envisioning Sydney’s urban future

Abstract

One of the challenges in creating plans for sustainable urban futures is the ability to work across government agencies and to break down traditional barriers to truly collaborative planning. Typically, metropolitan planning has been carried out by different agencies that are separate in their mandate and planning strategies. This siloed approach to city planning means there are problems in the coordination and sequencing of critical projects. To address this problem, we investigate the use of the Steinitz geodesign framework and the GeodesignHub.com software for supporting collaborative and integrated negotiation-based geodesign. We hypothesised that by using the geodesign framework we can involve key government agencies and begin to break down

Integrating Green-Infrastructures Design in Strategic Spatial Planning with Geodesign

“…In addition to the available built-in tools in Geodesignhub, the Geodesign Process Analytics (GDPA) approach [35] can be used to process Geodesignhub log-data to monitor and real-time display in a e-dashboard the process dynamics, including the spatial overlaps between projects, the temporal sequence of activities and tasks, the user behavior and productivity, and the evolution of the design in space and time. The set of indicators proposed in these analytics support the application of systems thinking during the rapid design iterations of a typical geodesign workshop [14,15], highlighting in real-time the relationships between GI projects and those of the other systems. Making projects synergies or conflicts more explicit it encourages systems thinking and help design teams in In addition to the available built-in tools in Geodesignhub, the Geodesign Process Analytics (GDPA) approach [35] can be used to process Geodesignhub log-data to monitor and real-time display in a e-dashboard the process dynamics, including the spatial overlaps between projects, the temporal sequence of activities and tasks, the user behavior and productivity, and the evolution of the design in space and time.…”

“…Making projects synergies or conflicts more explicit it encourages systems thinking and help design teams in In addition to the available built-in tools in Geodesignhub, the Geodesign Process Analytics (GDPA) approach [35] can be used to process Geodesignhub log-data to monitor and real-time display in a e-dashboard the process dynamics, including the spatial overlaps between projects, the temporal sequence of activities and tasks, the user behavior and productivity, and the evolution of the design in space and time. The set of indicators proposed in these analytics support the application of systems thinking during the rapid design iterations of a typical geodesign workshop [14,15], highlighting in real-time the relationships between GI projects and those of the other systems. Making projects synergies or conflicts more explicit it encourages systems thinking and help design teams in reaching consensus on common proposals.…”

“…This would require to inform design taking into account the tight relationship between GI and the other natural (e.g., blue infrastructure, agriculture) and artificial (e.g., grey infrastructure, commerce, housing) systems according to comprehensive approach at least in the early phases of strategic territorial planning. According to this line of thought, several geodesign case studies have been recently carried out [14][15][16] which, within their broader scope, somehow included the synergic design of GI as well as of the other systems stemming from local development priorities applying systems thinking, so ensuring a contextual territorial coordination of future development scenarios.…”

An Analytic Approach to Understanding Process Dynamics in Geodesign Studies

“…The GDF can efficiently tackle the multiple dimensions of spatial decision problems through a collaborative and/or participatory process based on extensive dialogue among people representing diverse areas of competence, political agendas, and social interests. The increasingly extensive use of digital information technology can not only effectively support the analytic-deliberative planning workflow [10], but also facilitate the understanding of the collaborative geodesign process dynamics by offering the opportunity to collect information on the evolution of design and on participants' actions [11].…”

“…However, implementing the concept of meta-planning in current planning practices is still limited. The process is often perceived as a 'black box' with a non-transparent, unstructured, and unclear workflow, and several difficulties arise in describing and understanding design and decision dynamics [11].…”