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，共同创造街道探测主义和地方故事：采用参与式现场分析、集体重新想象和创造性表现的实验，以揭示模式和见解，这些模式和见解将有助于为社区主导的扎根于地方的再生实验提供信息，并优先考虑未来集体利益的行动（Krznaric, 2020）。这些项目是达德利参与式建筑的初步试验，博士研究项目将与CoLab和CIVIC SQUARE （CS）合作，通过研究问题：“如何将共同创造的建筑过程和社会实验室方法相结合，为社区共同进化再生生态系统提供平台？”目前的文献关注的是参与式建筑对完工建筑质量的好处（Jenkins & Forsyth, 2010），或对入住后幸福感的影响（Samuel, 2020）。本研究将探讨参与式建筑过程如何促进社会、实验和系统变革（Hassan, 2014），并帮助建立可再生社区。该研究将实施Mang和Reed的再生设计和开发实践方法（2012）。这将包括通过生命系统思维（Krone, 1983-2010）和永续农业（Mollison, 1988）“理解与地点的关系”及其潜力；通过从参与到共同创造（Ind & Coates, 2013）和使用文化动画方法（Kelemen等人，2018）来促进社区以创造力、认知多样性、设计正义和共同梦想来应对当代和系统性挑战（Hansteen-Izora, 2021），通过在当地嵌入“再生能力”来实现“与地方和谐的设计”；并通过整合网络编织（Holley, 2017）创造一种“共同进化”的文化，以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），以帮助“持续学习和转型，并在不可避免的变化中做出预测”（Wahl, 2017）。第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）；-道德认可；-通过文献综述，对社会实验室、协同创意建筑、生态系统和再生设计进行理论理解；-案例研究-识别和评估参与式建筑和社会实验室塑造社区生态系统的项目，并对特定地点的背景进行比较；-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；-在达德利高街的背景下开始试点研究工作坊共同设计过程。二年级-论文结构规划和起草；-试点研究分析，绘制达德利高街生态系统内的地图效果；-在共同创造和研究网络中继续进行文献回顾和分享新发现；-通过文化动画与共同创作者进行工作坊突发实践的测试、迭代和分析。第三年-共同设计一个紧急框架，以支持共同创造的建筑和社会实验室流程，有助于再生生态系统；-在Ladywood的背景下与CS一起测试和分析框架，以及通过文化动画研究网络中的其他学习伙伴；-论文写作。第四年-框架的传播；-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.