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- Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment
- Instructor(s)
- Dohi Masato
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- Lecture (Face-to-face)
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- Thr5-6(西9号館536)
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- Course number
- UDE.D412
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2022
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2022/10/3
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Course description and aims
Description: It has been only 15 years since the requirement of citizen participation in designing the public space came to be taken for granted. Why is participation necessary? How is the participatory design different from the conventional design offered by experts, in terms of the designing process and forms? This course lectures today’s position of community design as a solution for the current challenges of socio-spatial design using practical examples.
Aim: This course provides lectures on principles and techniques required for community design, which is seen to be practical realisation of socio-spatial approaches. It aims to get students understand and acquire these principles and techniques by showing practical examples.
Student learning outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Understand and explain the changes that occur when community design intervenes in the urban space in practice.
2) Understand and explain the significance of community design through practical examples.
3) Understand and explain how to manage complex relationships among various stakeholders using community design.
Keywords
Community design, citizen participation, community designer, urban design
Competencies that will be developed
| ✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
How each class will be conducted: A lecture on a topic is provided for the first 45 minutes; and for the second half, students present their research results on the topic followed by an open discussion.
How the subject matter will be covered over the course of teaching: The course teaches principles of community design that have been found through practices, and considers the future direction of community design.
The method of teaching: This course encourages the proactive thinking of students by combining presentations and discussions with lectures.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Orientation | Overview practical examples of community design. |
| Class 2 | Community designer as a profession: its principles | Understand and explain the purposes and ethics of experts whose profession is community design on the ground. |
| Class 3 | Community designer as a profession: its social position | Understand and explain the occupational roles that community designers are expected to and need to play. |
| Class 4 | The techniques and methods of community design: designing through working together | Understand and explain how to design cooperation and collaboration between various participants, which is a basic skill of community design. |
| Class 5 | The techniques and methods of community design: visualising the invisible | Understand and explain how to make and suggest an alternative solution, which is a basic skill of community design. |
| Class 6 | A practice of community design 1: Manteo, North Carolina | Learn the case of tourism development and community regeneration in Manteo, North Carolina, United States. |
| Class 7 | Environmental justice | Understand and explain the concept of environmental justice, which is needed to realise harmonious cohabitation with vulnerable people, and which is a basic principle of community design. |
Out-of-Class Study Time (Preparation and Review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Hester, R. T. and Dohi, M. (1997) “Machizukuri no hoho to gijutsu [The methods and techniques of community design]”, Gendai Kikakushitsu
Hester, R. T. (2006) “Design for ecological democracy”, The MIT Press
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Course materials are distributed as necessary.
Assessment criteria and methods
Students are required to do a research presentation and submit a report. Both presentations and reports are marked out of 100 with 25 for the degree of understanding, 25 for the knowledge, 25 for the ability of structuring the report, and the final 25 for the ability of expressing the idea.
Related courses
- ARC.P302 ： Landscape Architecture
- UDE.D412 ： The Practice of Community Design
- UDE.D443 ： Practices of Urban and Community Design
- UDE.D449 ： Landscape Design Studio Ⅱ
- ARC.P204 ： Introduction to Urban Study
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
None required.
