Co-creating regenerative futures: The role of architectural and social lab processes in communities shaping their civic and social infrastructures

作为CoLab Dudley(CoLab)团队的一员，我正在与当地人合作创建街道探测器和地点故事：利用参与性场地分析、集体重新想象和创造性表现来揭示模式和见解的实验，这些模式和见解将有助于为根植于地方的社区领导的再生实验提供信息，并为未来的集体利益优先采取行动(Krznaric，2020)。这些项目是达德利参与式建筑的初步试验，博士研究项目将在此基础上与CoLab和公民广场(CS)共同研究以下问题：共同创作建筑过程和社会实验室方法的结合如何为社区提供一个共同进化再生生态系统的平台？目前的文献侧重于参与式建筑对已建成建筑质量的好处(Jenkins&Forsyth，2010)，或入驻后对幸福感的影响(Samuel，2020)。这项研究将探索参与式建筑过程如何有助于社会、试验性和系统性的变化(Hassan，2014)，并帮助建立再生社区。这项研究将实施Mang和Reed的再生设计与开发实践方法论(2012)。这将涉及到通过生命系统思维(Krone，1983-2010)和永久文化(Mollison，1988)来“理解与场所的关系”及其潜力；通过超越参与到共同创造来“设计与场所的和谐”(Ind&Coates，2013)，并使用文化动画方法(Keleman等人，2018)，以促进社区通过创造力、认知多样性、设计正义和共同梦想来应对当代和系统性的挑战(Hansteen-Izora，2021)；并通过整合网络编织(Holley，2017)来建立关系和再生角色(Sanford，2020)，以及CoLab以发展原则为重点的评估(Patton，2017)来创造一种“共同进化”的文化，以帮助“对不可避免的变化进行持续的学习和转变”(Wahl，2017)。提议的结构1-基于创造力的研究方法的设计及其向未来合作的过渡(Beaule et al，2021)；-伦理批准；-文献综述，以发展对社会实验室、联合创意架构、生态系统和再生设计的理论理解；案例研究--确定和评价参与性建筑和社会实验室塑造了社区生态系统的项目，并比较具体地点的情况；-发展共同创造和研究网络，与潜在的共同创造者建立关系，并与更广泛的网络分享学习成果；-在达德利商业街的背景下开始试点研究讲习班共同设计进程。2--论文结构规划和起草；-试点研究分析，绘制达德利商业街生态系统内的影响图；-继续文献审查，与共同创造和研究网络中的新发现分享学习；-通过文化动画与共同创作者一起测试、迭代和分析研讨会的紧急实践。第3年-共同设计一个紧急框架，以支持有助于再生生态系统的共同创作建筑和社会实验室过程；-在Ladywood的背景下与CS以及通过文化动画在研究网络中的其他学习伙伴一起测试和分析框架；-论文写作。第4年-框架传播；-论文准备和提交。

As part of the CoLab Dudley (CoLab) team, I am working with locals to co-create Street Detectorism and Stories of Place: experiments that employ participatory site analysis, collective reimagining and creative manifestations to reveal patterns and insights that will help to inform community-led regenerative experiments that are rooted in place and prioritise actions for the future collective good (Krznaric, 2020). These projects are initial trials of participatory architecture in Dudley, which the PhD research project would build upon with CoLab and CIVIC SQUARE (CS) through the research question: 'How might a combination of co-creative architectural processes and social lab approaches provide a platform for communities to co-evolve regenerative ecosystems?'Current literature focuses on the benefits of participatory architecture on the completed building quality (Jenkins & Forsyth, 2010), or post-occupancy impact on wellbeing (Samuel, 2020). This research would explore how participatory architectural processes can contribute to social, experimental and systemic change (Hassan, 2014) and help to build regenerative communities. The research would implement Mang and Reed's practice methodologies for Regenerative Design and Development (2012). This would involve 'understanding the relationship to place' and its potential through living systems thinking (Krone, 1983-2010) and permaculture (Mollison, 1988); 'designing for harmony with place' through locally embedding 'regeneration capacity' by moving beyond participation to co-creation (Ind & Coates, 2013) and using Cultural Animation methods (Kelemen et al, 2018) to facilitate communities to respond to contemporary and systemic challenges with creativity, cognitive diversity, design justice and communal dreaming (Hansteen-Izora, 2021); and creating a culture of 'coevolution' through integration of network weaving (Holley, 2017) to build relationships and regenerative roles (Sanford, 2020), and CoLab's developmental principles-focused evaluation (Patton, 2017) to aid 'continuous learning and transformation to, and in anticipation of, inevitable change' (Wahl, 2017).Proposed StructureYear 1- Design of a creativity-based research methodology and its transition to future collaborations (Beaule et al, 2021);- Ethical approval;- Literature review to develop a theoretical understanding of social labs, co-creative architecture, ecosystems, and regenerative design;- Case studies - identification and evaluation of projects where participatory architecture and social labs have shaped community ecosystems, with a comparison of place-specific contexts;- Development of co-creation and research networks, to build relationships with potential co-creators and sharing learning with wider networks;- Start of pilot study workshop co-design process in context of Dudley High Street.Year 2- Thesis structure planning and drafting;- Pilot study analysis, mapping effects within the Dudley High Street ecosystem;- Continued literature review and sharing learning with emerging findings in the co-creation and research networks;- Testing, iteration and analysis of workshop emergent practice with co-creators through Cultural Animation.Year 3- Co-design of an emergent framework to support co-creative architecture and social lab processes that contribute to regenerative ecosystems;- Testing and analysing the framework with CS in the context of Ladywood, and other learning partners in the research network through Cultural Animation;- Thesis writing.Year 4- Framework dissemination;- Thesis preparation and submission.