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Towards a civic environmental design
A symposium entitled Designing for Civic Environmentalism, held important lessons for architects and planners alike concerned with cultural and ecological sustainability. Itself an emerging discourse and practice, civic environmentalism (CE) is, according to William Shutkin, "the idea that members (stakeholders) of a particular geographic and political community -- residents, businesses, government agencies, and non-profits -- should engage in planning and organizing activities to ensure a future that is environmentally healthy and economically and socially vibrant at the local and regional levels” (Shutkin 2000). Andrew Light situates the area of concern within the urban environment (Light and Wellman 2003). His aim, while agreeing with Shutkin, is the inclusion of environmental virtues as the governing factor in relationships between persons in a community (civic) and between human and non-humans (ecology) in that same community. In sum, then CE is about the revival and engagement of civic life based on the protection of the environment for all. In this research paper, I describe three tenets for design practice based on civic environmentalism and present a key finding that emerged from my qualitative research (interview, participation, textual review) into the motivations and successful strategies emergent within the workshop. My research revealed that a key characteristic for a design practice based on CE is that the process is best when it works with an a posteriori or emergent logic. An a posteriori process privileges what is found at the site as the catalyst for development – reframing practice from application to discovery, preservation, and enhancement. By virtue of the local sensitivity it engenders, tempered with knowledge and skills from the outside (a priori), we increase the potential for design to yield the "goods" promised by civic environmentalism - places of ecological and cultural integrity, community, justice, and beauty.
Towards a civic environmental design
A symposium entitled Designing for Civic Environmentalism, held important lessons for architects and planners alike concerned with cultural and ecological sustainability. Itself an emerging discourse and practice, civic environmentalism (CE) is, according to William Shutkin, "the idea that members (stakeholders) of a particular geographic and political community -- residents, businesses, government agencies, and non-profits -- should engage in planning and organizing activities to ensure a future that is environmentally healthy and economically and socially vibrant at the local and regional levels” (Shutkin 2000). Andrew Light situates the area of concern within the urban environment (Light and Wellman 2003). His aim, while agreeing with Shutkin, is the inclusion of environmental virtues as the governing factor in relationships between persons in a community (civic) and between human and non-humans (ecology) in that same community. In sum, then CE is about the revival and engagement of civic life based on the protection of the environment for all. In this research paper, I describe three tenets for design practice based on civic environmentalism and present a key finding that emerged from my qualitative research (interview, participation, textual review) into the motivations and successful strategies emergent within the workshop. My research revealed that a key characteristic for a design practice based on CE is that the process is best when it works with an a posteriori or emergent logic. An a posteriori process privileges what is found at the site as the catalyst for development – reframing practice from application to discovery, preservation, and enhancement. By virtue of the local sensitivity it engenders, tempered with knowledge and skills from the outside (a priori), we increase the potential for design to yield the "goods" promised by civic environmentalism - places of ecological and cultural integrity, community, justice, and beauty.
Towards a civic environmental design
Canizaro, Vincent (Autor:in)
30.08.2013
doi:10.17831/rep:arcc%y154
ARCC Conference Repository; 2009: Leadership in Architectural Research, Between Academia and the Profession | UTSA 2009
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC:
720
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