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

作为CoLab达德利（CoLab）团队的一员，我正在与当地人合作，共同创建街道探测器和地方故事：实验采用参与式现场分析，集体重新想象和创造性表现，以揭示模式和见解，这将有助于为社区主导的再生实验提供信息，这些实验植根于地方，并为未来的集体利益优先考虑行动（Krznaric，2020）。这些项目是达德利参与式建筑的初步试验，博士研究项目将通过研究问题与CoLab和CIVIC SQUARE（CS）建立在一起：“如何将共同创造的建筑过程和社会实验室方法相结合，为社区共同发展再生生态系统提供平台？“目前的文献集中在参与式建筑对完成的建筑质量的好处（詹金斯和福赛斯，2010年），或占用后对福祉的影响（塞缪尔，2020年）。这项研究将探讨参与式建筑过程如何有助于社会，实验和系统性的变化（哈桑，2014），并有助于建立再生社区。该研究将实施Mang和Reed的再生设计和开发实践方法（2012）。这将涉及“理解与地方的关系”及其通过生命系统思维的潜力（克朗，1983-2010）和朴门永续农业（Mollison，1988）;通过从参与到共同创造，在当地嵌入“再生能力”，“设计与地方和谐”（Ind &科茨，2013）和使用文化动画方法（Kelemen et al，2018）促进社区以创造力，认知多样性，设计正义和共同梦想应对当代和系统性挑战（Hansteen-Izora，2021）;通过网络编织的整合，（霍利，2017年）建立关系和再生角色（桑福德，2020年），和CoLab的发展原则为重点的评估（巴顿，2017年），以帮助“持续学习和转型，并在预期，不可避免的变化”（Wahl，2017年）。拟议的结构1年-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，共同创造的建筑，生态系统和再生设计的理论理解;-案例研究-参与式建筑和社会实验室塑造社区生态系统的项目的识别和评估，与特定地点的环境进行比较;- 共同创造和研究网络的发展，建立与潜在的共同创造者和分享学习与更广泛的网络的关系;-开始试点研究研讨会的共同设计过程中的背景下，达德利高街。第二年-论文结构规划和起草;-试点研究分析，映射的影响，在达德利高街生态系统;- 持续的文献回顾和分享学习与共同创造和研究网络中的新发现;-通过文化动画与共同创造者一起测试，迭代和分析研讨会紧急实践。第三年-共同设计紧急框架，以支持有助于再生生态系统的共同创造架构和社会实验室流程;- 在Ladywood的背景下与CS一起测试和分析框架，并通过文化动画研究网络中的其他学习伙伴;-撰写论文。

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.