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OCLC number
910393084
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Author
Sanches, Maria Gabriela,
Title
Choosing Urban Elements : interdisciplinary Participation in the Preston Street Reconstruction Project.
Degree
M. Des. -- Carleton University, 2011
Publisher
Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, [2013]
Description
2 microfiches
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
<?Pub Inc> This research presents a case study of the choice of urban elements in the Preston Street rehabilitation process. In order to investigate how participatory design methods can enhance the development of urban elements and what roles industrial designers can assume in this sort of project, dime research methods were utilized: interviews with stakeholders, surveys with the general public and archival research. Noticing that industrial designers were not among the stakeholders in the process, the researcher explored ways to support their involvement in design discussions in connection with elements in urban spaces. Final considerations suggest that designers can contribute to the development of urban elements including public art, the facilitation of interdisciplinary design development groups, the research of the users' needs, and the creation of policies concerning design activity in Ottawa. Such recommendations are regarded as strategies to foster the creation and selection of urban elements through participatory design methods. 'Keywords: design of urban elements, interdisciplinary design development, public design participation, public art, street furniture'
ISBN
9780494878507
0494878509