Evaluating the governance of design in the built environment - the CABE experiment and beyond

从它的创建到它的消亡，CABE引领了一场全国性的建筑环境设计运动。它是一个独特的组织（世界性的），充分了解其工作和影响将具有国际意义。然而，这一提议走得更远。它旨在利用CABE的经验作为一种手段来阐明一些基本问题的作用，性质和合法性的设计作为一种公共政策工具，以及是否，如何以及在何种程度上，国家应该在未来参与这些问题。四个关键的调查路线将被跟踪：o工具箱- CABE代表了一种尝试，通过“积极的政府”，以解决市场的感知（尽管有争议）失败，认识到良好的设计的重要性。但是，由于没有任何法定权力，CABE可以被视为“大卫”的设计对“歌利亚”的房地产市场。尽管如此，CABE能够部署一系列潜在的强大工具来实现其预期的目标，包括：证据，宣传，信息共享，指导，改进工具，援助，监测，说服，联盟建设，教育和评估。每个工具都包含一系列复杂的努力，确定这些工具的相对重要性，挑战和影响将为设计治理过程的有效性以及未来公共政策和投资在这一领域的重点提供有价值的激励。可以导出通用原则以优化玩家的表现。CABE本身也嵌入在更广泛的政治和治理趋势中，表明设计治理的评估需要如何在更广泛的背景下进行。今天，随着这一背景的变化，对设计治理最近事件的理解将揭示公共政策领域的潜在未来模式，这些模式将直接由社区在较低级别的政府中提供，而不是直接从中心引导。这一“设计议程”在新工党执政期间蓬勃发展，而在2010年大选前，保守党再次承诺实现同样的目标，尽管不是CABE。了解这段历史、参与者的动机和围绕设计的政治共识，以及它在不断发展的城市政策格局中的适应性，对于理解未来设计议程的潜力和可能的轨迹以及如何保持相关性至关重要，设计治理的实践将需要与之一起发展。o设计问题-随着CABE的角色、影响力和规模的增长，批评也是如此，强调了这一领域公共政策的挑战性，以及设计如何在关键方面与许多“大额”政策不同。今天，随着城市政策转向地方主义议程，设计可能会越来越突出，尽管现在没有一个强大的国家声音来协助这一进程。评估建筑环境中设计的独特公共政策特征和问题，以及它们在最近的过去是如何被解决的（或没有），对于理解在紧缩和地方主义时代如何解决设计问题以及理解更广泛的道德/伦理至关重要。社会的情况下，这种干预在未来。一个归纳研究方法提出，旅程从具体的实践，以广泛的理论，设计治理。建立在一个完整的泵启动阶段，保护证据之前，CABE的消亡，一个多维的影响分析，现在提出了四个阶段：分析框架;组织审讯;第一手意见;和影响和遗产分析。

From its creation to its demise, CABE fronted a national drive for better design in the built environment. It was a unique organisation (worldwide) and a full understanding of its work and impact will be of international significance. This proposal, however, goes much further. It aims to use the experience of CABE as a means to illuminate some fundamental questions about the role, nature and legitimacy of design as a public policy tool and whether, how and to what degree the state should engage in such concerns in the future. Four key lines of enquiry will be traced:o The toolbox - CABE represented an attempt, through 'active government', to address a perceived (although contested) failure of the market to recognise the importance of good design. But, given the absence of any statutory powers, CABE could be seen as the 'David' of design against the 'Goliath' of the property market. Despite this, CABE was able to deploy a range of potentially powerful tools to achieve its desired ends, including: evidence, publicity, information sharing, guidance, improvement tools, assistance, monitoring, persuading, coalition building, education, and evaluation. Each tool encompasses a complex set of endeavours and determining the relative significance, challenges and impact of such tools will provide valuable incites into the effectiveness of design governance processes and to where public policy and investment in this area should be focused in the future.o Shifting governance - CABE's work was situated within a belief that by understanding the processes of design, generic principles might be derived to optimise the performance of players. CABE itself was also embedded within wider political and governance trends, demonstrating how evaluation of design governance needs to be situated within an understanding of this wider context. Today, as this context shifts, an understanding of recent episodes of design governance will throw light on potential future models in an area of public policy to be delivered across lower tiers of government, directly by communities, and with a less direct steer from the centre.o Political context - The contemporary effort to address questions of design through public policy began in the mid-90s. This 'design agenda' prospered throughout the New Labour years, whilst in the run-up to the 2010 election the Conservatives re-committed themselves to the same goals, although not to CABE. Understanding this history, the motivations of those involved and the political consensus surrounding design, as well as it's fit within the evolving urban policy landscape will be critical to understanding the potential and likely trajectory of the design agenda in the future and how, to stay relevant, the practice of design governance will need to evolve with it.o Design problematics - As the role, influence and size of CABE grew, so did criticisms; underlining the challenging nature of public policy in this area, and how design is different from many 'big ticket' policy remits in critical ways. Today, as urban policy moves to a localism agenda, design is likely to come increasingly to the fore, although now without a strong national voice to assist in the process. Evaluating the unique public policy characteristics and problematics of design in the built environment and how they have been addressed (or not) in the recent past will be critical to understanding how design might be addressed in the age of austerity and localism as well as to understanding the wider moral / societal case for such intervention in the future.An inductive research methodology is proposed that journeys from the specifics of practice to a broad theory of design governance. Building on a completed pump-priming phase that safeguarded evidence prior to CABE's demise, a multi-dimensional impact analysis is now proposed in four stages: analytical framework; organisational interrogation; first-hand opinions; and impact & legacy analysis.