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

这项研究解决了无家可归者社区在城市设计中的包容性问题，将重点放在商业街作为本次调查的基础。该项目将通过关注尊严、所有权和代表性三个核心主题，重新塑造和描述弱势社区在城市设计中的地位。目前，设计委员会CABE(建筑和建筑环境委员会，2006年)和地方主义法案(2011年)已经考虑到这些主题的要素。然而，向某些有固定住址和获得现代技术的群体提供的调查和咨询期造成了一种差距，即不包括对无家可归者等弱势社区的尊严、所有权和代表性的考虑。选择这三个核心主题，是因为它们在弱势社区中具有共同的价值，将成为洞察力的来源，挑战先入为主的观念，并超越城市设计中常用的实际回应。这项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、城市重建部门的专业人员以及更广泛的社区进行接触。利用参与性行动研究方法，将确定和开发创新方法，以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体系。商业街的经济衰退在新冠肺炎之前就开始了，但由于疫情的爆发，失业和倒闭的速度加快了。这项研究至关重要，因为迫切需要将商业街发展成可持续的商业来源，鼓励混合使用的机会来建立社区(Monk 2020)。在无家可归者社区经常与敌对建筑配对的地方，旨在威慑或排斥某些群体，本研究打算使用文化探索、地图绘制、模型制作和代码标志等方法来呈现无家可归者社区在系统性城市设计中的地位的整体框架。

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.