Topic outline

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  Sustainability: The Design of Community Participation for Sustainable Communities

  Anže Zadel’s short crash course

  Sustainability: The Design of Community Participation (CP) for Sustainable Communities

  

  
  

  What is happening in our society that causes an increasing trend of civil unrest//urban insurgencies and increasing calls for community participation (CP) in urban processes?

  1. Dissatisfaction with the way urban resources are distributed in society.
  2. Dissatisfaction with political arrangement (in representative democracies).

  It is an empirical question and needs to be explored as such and we will explore it in this lecture. We will further test and possibly shake our assumptions about CP.

  We will be exploring several questions portraying CP.

  1. What is community participation? -- The importance of defining the world's “community” and “justice” in community participatory (CP) urban processes.
  2. Why does the democratic political-economic system work as it does and how does it enable or disable CP?
  3. If people/communities don't have a say in the decision-making processes, the democatic system and rules start eroding. How have different communities and governments addressed this issue?

  The question of the design of CP in urban processes are important because they define the question of community (who gets to decide who participates in these processes) and how these communities get to participate in decision-making processes and the distribution of urban resources.

  The question of justice and just participatory processes in the decision of the distribution of urban resources.

  What are the challenges with current practices of community participation (CP)  in urban processes?

  Our society is organized according to the rules and these rules affect also impact CP in urban processes. These rules are the matter of design. New trends in design look into more engaging bottom-up approaches in the process of designing new things. Many of the rules governing our society begun to shift as well. 

  Some topic explored throughout this course:

  Theories of community participation (CP)
  Top-down and bottom-up practices of CP
  Grassroots and government CP practices
  Participatory Budgeting (PB)
  Participatory Action Research (PAR)
  Open data and related laws
  Model of CP evaluation developed by Anže Zadel
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  Conclusion

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