Overview

Co-Designing Publics brings together a mix of academics, activists, and practitioners to discuss and debate discourses from scholarly research, grassroots activism, and design ideas for future action. The ""Co-Designing Publics"" global research network, funded by a grant awarded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, has a sustained focus on the public realm and its production through informal strategies in cities of the global south. As cities are increasingly confronted by multiple crises [e.g. Covid-19 pandemic, climate crisis] and conditions of precarity [e.g. urban inequality, inadequate public infrastructure], such circumstances call for more interactive, collaborative, and creative approaches for [re]designing their public realm. Based on these premises, the book integrates discussions of three critical and interrelated phenomena: creative ways of mobilizing communities around common concerns and desires [i.e. co-designing publics], deployment of grassroots tactics and social innovations [i.e. informal strategies], and production of spatial networks of public spaces intertwined with their ongoing governance [i.e. public realm]. Contextually grounding these discussions in cities of the global south enables us to learn how innovative co-design practices operate around issues such as homelessness and affordable housing, sustainable and equitable energy systems, waste management, cooperative models of property ownership, the promotion and protection of human rights, and the production of peace in contexts of violence. The book thereby draws from and presents public conversations between academic research and case studies of activism [from Bogota, Bengaluru, Cape Town, Jakarta, Phnom Penh, and Sao Paulo]. The book is a slim paperback that is affordable and written and illustrated in an engaging manner to make it accessible to a broad audience globally.S

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Author:   Dr. Aseem Inam
Publisher:   Oro Editions
Imprint:   Oro Editions
Weight:   0.270kg
ISBN:  

9781957183572

ISBN 10:   1957183578
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   01 December 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

01 Co-Designing Publics: A Theoretical and Investigative Overview Aseem Inam................................................................................. 4 02 Co-Design as Engagement with the City: Rujak Center for Urban Studies, Jakarta Elisa Sutanudjaja and AbdouMaliq Simone............................26 03 Public Realm Ethnography: Understanding and Studying the Public Realm Alasdair Jones............................................................................39 04 Co-Design as Long-Term Process: Hasiru Dala, Bengaluru Nalini Shekar and Neha Sami...................................................44 05 Co-Design as Contestation of Power: União Nacional por Moradia Popular, São Paulo Evaniza Rodrigues and Fernando Lara....................................54 06 Who Really Designs? Marianela D’Aprile.....................................................................64 07 Co-Design as Resistance: Cambodian Center for Human Rights, Phnom Penh Sopheap Chak and Simon Springer........................................71 08 Co-Design as Participation: Project 90 by 2030, Cape Town Lorna Fuller, Gabriel Klaasen and Charlotte Lemanski..........81 09 Subversive Aesthetics in the Americas Macarena Gómez-Barris...........................................................91 10 Co-Design against Traditional Power Structures: ASOMEVID, Cali Alexander López, Melanie Lombard and Carlos Tobar.........94 11 Do It Responsibly or Don’t Do It at All Panthea Lee..............................................................................108 12 Co-Designing Publics International Symposium: Closing Thoughts Charlotte Lemanski..................................................................115 13 Epilogue Aseem Inam.............................................................................126

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Dr. Aseem Inam is Professor and Chair in Urban Design at Cardiff University, and Director of TRULAB: Laboratory for Designing Urban Transformation. He is the Principal Investigator of the ""Co-Designing Publics"" international research network, funded by a grant awarded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. All contributors: Elisa Sutanudjaja, Jakarta; AbdouMaliq Simone, Sheffield; Alasdair Jones, Exeter; Nalini Shekar, Bengaluru; Neha Sami, Bengaluru; Evaniza Rodrigues, Sao Paulo; Fernando Lara, Austin; Marianela D’Aprile, Chicago; Sopheap Chak, Phnom Penh; Simon Springer, Newcastle; Lorna Fuller, Cape Town; Gabriel Klaasen, Cape Town; Charlotte Lemanski, Cambridge; Macarena Gomez-Barris, Providence; Alexander Lopez, Cali; Melanie Lombard, Sheffield; Carlos Tobar, Cali; Panthea Lee, New York.

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