Designing for Dignity, Ownership and Representation: new approaches to the inclusivity of the homeless community.

这项研究解决了关于城市设计中无家可归者社区的包容性问题，重点是作为调查基础的高街。该项目将通过关注尊严、所有权和代表权这三个核心主题，重新构建和重建弱势社区在城市设计中的地位。目前，设计理事会CABE（建筑和建筑环境委员会，2006年）和《地方主义法》（2011年）已考虑到这些主题的要素。然而，向某些有固定地址和获得现代技术的群体提供的调查和咨询期造成了一个空白，没有考虑到诸如无家可归者等弱势群体的尊严、所有权和代表性。这三个核心主题因其在弱势社区的共同价值而被选中，将成为洞察力的源泉，挑战先入之见，并超越城市设计中常用的实际应对措施。该研究将与无家可归者社区的成员，无家可归者社区服务提供者，城市再生部门和更广泛社区的专业人员进行接触。将利用参与性行动研究方法，确定和制定创新方法，探讨如何将弱势群体的尊严、所有权和代表性纳入城市设计系统。商业街的经济衰退在COVID-19之前就已开始，但疫情导致失业和业务关闭的速度加快。这项研究至关重要，因为迫切需要将商业街发展成为可持续的商业来源，鼓励混合使用以建立社区的机会（Monk 2020）。在无家可归者社区往往与敌对的建筑，旨在阻止或排斥某些群体的人，本研究打算使用的方法，如文化探测，映射，模型制作和代码符号，提出一个整体框架的无家可归者社区的位置在系统的城市设计。

This research addresses questions regarding the inclusivity of the homeless community within urban design, focusing on the high street as a foundation to this inquiry. The project will reframe and recharacterise a vulnerable communities' position in urban design through focusing on three core themes of dignity, ownership and representation. Currently, elements of these themes have been taken into consideration by the Design Council CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, 2006)and in the Localism Act (2011). However, surveys and consultation periods offered to certain groups with fixed addresses and access to modern technology breed a gap where considerations of dignity, ownership and representation of vulnerable communities, such as the homeless, are not included. The three core themes, chosen for their shared value across vulnerable communities, will become a source of insight, challenge preconceptions and exceed common practical responses used in urban design. The study will engage with members of the homeless community, homeless community service providers, professionals within the urban regeneration sector and the wider community. Using participatory action research approaches, innovative methods will be identified and developed to question how dignity, ownership and representation of vulnerable groups can be included within the urban design system. The economic decline of high streets started before COVID-19, but the rate of job loss and business closure accelerated as a result of the pandemic. This study is critical as there is urgent need for high streets to develop into a sustainable source of commerce, encouraging opportunities for mixed usage to build communities (Monk 2020). Where the homeless community is often paired with hostile architecture, designed to deter or exclude certain groups of people, this research intends to use methods such as cultural probes, mapping, model-making and code sign to present a holistic framing of the homeless community's position in systemic urban design.