Experiential Simulation for Urban Design: From Design Thinking to Final Presentation

Piga, Barbara Ester Adele

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-51804-6_3

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“…At the intersection of these different perspectives on experiential urban planning (Piga, 2017) lies the starting point of the collaboration between the Università degli Studi di Milano and the Politecnico di Milano. A n i n t e r d i s c i p l i n a r y a p p r o a c h t o u r b a n p l a n n i n g v i a A u g m e n t e d / V i r t u a l R e a l i t y a n d P r o c e s s M i n i n g it shows, on-site through Augmented Reality and off-site through Virtual Reality, urban and architectural proposals geolocated in real dimensions before their actual implementation; it also allows to explore the current condition of the neighborhood; it collects data from citizens' reactions to proposed urban transformations or to the current environment, combining emotional, cognitive and behavioral factors through scientifically validated instruments; it develops automatic data analytics to study the user's behavior, to verify its conformance with the design goals and to identify space utilization not explicitly considered by the design plans; it represents the outcomes in various forms, including charts and maps of the places as they are subjectively perceived.…”

Section: A N E X a M P L E O F D I G I T A L L Y S H A R E D I N F R A S T R U C T U R E C R E A T I N G A P A R T I C I P A T O R Y C O mentioning

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C3Places - Using ICT for Co-Creation of Inclusive Public Places

Costa¹,

Batista²,

Almeida³

et al. 2021

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This e-book and correspondent platform MyC3Place present the collection of the outcomes carried out by the partners of the C3Places Project.It explores the new dynamics of open spaces as a trusted service for community and expands our understanding on how mediated public open spaces function, paying attention to stakeholders, local context and different social groups. The e-book shows how it's possible to increase the quality of public open spaces (squares, parks, green spaces) as a community’s service, reflecting through ICT the needs of different social groups.

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C3Places - Using ICT for Co-Creation of Inclusive Public Places

Costa¹,

Batista²,

Almeida³

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“…In order to develop the co-design process, the research team adopted a multidisciplinary perspective integrating psychology and landscape design. In such a perspective both disciplines inform each other, as psychology offers theoretical and methodological tools to explore people's needs [66], whereas landscape design enables the representation of possible planning solutions and the preliminary definition of critical issues to be addressed in specific environments [67]. The methodology chosen for the co-design process was the focus group, and it suited the heuristic needs of the project.…”

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Sustainable Co-Design with Older People: The Case of a Public Restorative Garden in Milan (Italy)

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The demographic aging and the evolution of lifestyles require new strategies to promote the well-being and active aging of elderly. Active aging depends on many factors: some of these are related to objective data such as physical environment, others are personal elements; it is important to improve environmental physical factors to encourage personal attitudes to the green spaces in use. To design a small sustainable restorative green space in Milan, Italy, restorative garden design criteria are summarized in the first section of the paper and both social and environmental sustainability are considered. The methodology section describes the co-design process and how it was applied to include different older user groups in the design of the area. In the results section authors apply a taxonomy based on the four properties of restorative settings according to the Attention Restoration Theory by Kaplan (compatibility, being away, extent, fascination): this provides a unified system to classify users’ expectations and to describe the final project. The proposed co-design process combines social and environmental sustainability, as it provides designers an insight about the user’s experience in nature. Such information can be fruitfully integrated with professional competences about comfort aspects and environmental protection in order to improve the whole design project.

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“…This not only diminishes the overall quality of design projects, but also becomes an obstacle to the full actualization of the positive potential of some technical solutions. For an effective interdisciplinary co-design approach, we can consider urban design as a recursive process that can be divided into five main design phases (analyze, plan, design, assess, and communicate) that cross six key actions (observe and interpret, measure and compare, model and simulate, strategize, design, and communicate) (Piga, 2017 ). According to such a scheme, the contribution of social sciences can occur during the entire design process, offering theories and models to observe and interpret the interactions between people and their environment and then providing tools for measuring and comparing that interaction consistently with the chosen theories.…”

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“…From a theoretical perspective, the goal is to emphasise the points of contact between biophilic design and ART, with a strong link with actual designed physical elements. We aim to reconnect the early phases of the design practise (i.e., analyse, plan, and design; see Piga, 2017 ) with the existing principles of ART. From the methodological perspective, the goal is to develop a method that can be practically included in the design process.…”

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Nature Experiences of Older People for Active Ageing: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Co-Design of Community Gardens

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In Western countries, the concepts of healthy ageing and active ageing, that is, concepts that favour health, participation, and security to increase the quality of life of older people, have become key issues. Hence, the effective design of public green spaces in urban areas is crucial, as visiting these areas encourages social relations and interactions in natural, healthy contexts. Consistent with these perspectives, existing landscape design criteria emphasise the importance of considering not only the functional and aesthetic elements, but also the ecosystemic and biophilic relationships between people and the environment, producing positive effects for both. To maximise the impact of such design criteria, proper engagement strategies are desirable, both to assign an active role to older people themselves and to inform the fine-tuning of the design process according to the specific needs of the local population. This study presents an interdisciplinary co-design method that encourages and informs a biophilic approach by describing the experiences of people in natural environments, actual and designed, through the application of attention restoration theory (ART). The case study was developed through six focus group meetings with older people for the co-design of a restorative area in a community garden in the Ortica district in Milan (Italy). Results show how the main needs expressed by participants can be classified into the ART factors of “compatibility” (a multifunctional garden), “fascination” (sense of contact with nature), and “being away” (metaphorical escape from nursing homes). The garden designed includes biophilic principles that respond to such needs, and specific links with designed elements were identified. For example, “being away” (e.g., isolation from daily routine and visual occlusion of the surroundings) and “compatibility” (e.g., pergola and aesthetic value) are the factors that include the elements that more satisfactorily answer previous needs. “Fascination” also includes many positive aspects, allowing space for improvements (e.g., more water elements, interaction with animals). Implications of the method are discussed, including the importance of subjective experience in informing design, the use of different psychological constructs to describe it, and the methodological alternatives for psychological assessment.

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Experiential Simulation for Urban Design: From Design Thinking to Final Presentation

Cited by 14 publications

References 9 publications

C3Places - Using ICT for Co-Creation of Inclusive Public Places

C3Places - Using ICT for Co-Creation of Inclusive Public Places

Sustainable Co-Design with Older People: The Case of a Public Restorative Garden in Milan (Italy)

Nature Experiences of Older People for Active Ageing: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Co-Design of Community Gardens

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