Digital Tools for Partcipative Design - a Pilot Study

参与式设计的数字工具 - 试点研究

• 批准号: AH/D503930/1
• 负责人: Alan Kennedy Day
• 金额: $ 15.25万
• 依托单位: University of Bath
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FD503930%2F1
• 关键词: Digital; Tools; Partcipative; Design; Pilot

Design is normally thought of as an individual activity, or perhaps something that is carried out by a small team of experts. However, when it comes to urban design, the needs of a wide range of users have to be taken into account and it is highly beneficial if ways can be found to involve these users in the creative process. Participative Design is an excellent way of doing this and this project is concerned with enhancing the participative design process by investigating the feasibility of developing a set of digital tools that will enable non-experts to engage with design at a high level. Non- experts often find it difficult to understand conventional architectural drawings and so, when participative design exercises occur at the moment, extensive use is made of hand drawn sketches and simple card models. Although these tools are easy to use they are very limited in terms of what can be represented and this constrains the ways in which design ideas can be explained and developed.Over the past twenty years computer-aided design (CAD) has become commonplace in architects offices, to the point where conventional drawing boards are now a rarity. Although when CAD was first introduced it was very difficult to use, it has become more user-friendly and within the last few years a new generation of CAD packages have been introduced that have a much more intuitive feel to them. Also, as computers have become more powerful it is not longer necessary to have a workstation to run a CAD program as an entry-level laptop will suffice for all but the most demanding applications. This project aims to capitalise on these developments by investigating the possibility of adapting this technology to support participative design. This would allow participants to create much more realistic digital models of their ideas and visualise what they are designing in an accurate and convincing way.This project is a pilot study which will investigate whether a set of digital tools could be developed to aid the process of participative design. Its objectives are:1. To understand how participative design operates currently through case studies of existing practice.2. To investigate the potential of existing hardware and software to facilitate the process of participative design.3. To describe how that hardware and software could be developed into a new set of tools specifically designed to support participative design.

设计通常被认为是一项个人活动，或者可能是由一个专家小组进行的。然而，在城市设计中，必须考虑到广泛用户的需求，如果能够找到让这些用户参与创意过程的方法，那将是非常有益的。参与式设计是实现这一目标的绝佳方法，该项目致力于通过研究开发一套数字工具的可行性来增强参与式设计过程，这些工具将使非专家能够参与高水平的设计。非专家通常很难理解传统的建筑图纸，因此，当目前进行参与式设计练习时，大量使用手绘草图和简单的卡片模型。虽然这些工具易于使用，但在可表示的内容方面非常有限，这限制了设计思想的解释和发展方式。在过去的二十年中，计算机辅助设计 (CAD) 已在建筑师办公室中变得司空见惯，以至于传统的绘图板现在已经很少见了。尽管 CAD 首次推出时非常难以使用，但它已变得更加用户友好，并且在过去几年中推出了新一代 CAD 软件包，它们具有更直观的感觉。此外，随着计算机变得越来越强大，不再需要工作站来运行 CAD 程序，因为入门级笔记本电脑足以满足除最苛刻的应用程序之外的所有应用程序。该项目旨在通过研究采用该技术支持参与式设计的可能性来利用这些发展。这将使参与者能够创建更真实的数字模型来表达他们的想法，并以准确和令人信服的方式可视化他们正在设计的内容。该项目是一项试点研究，将调查是否可以开发一套数字工具来帮助参与式设计的过程。其目标是： 1．通过现有实践的案例研究来了解目前参与式设计是如何运作的。2．研究现有硬件和软件促进参与式设计过程的潜力。3．描述如何将硬件和软件开发成一组专门用于支持参与式设计的新工具。