Organised by Husam Al Waer

Organised by Husam Al Waer

Professor of Environmental Geoscience Dean of the School of the Environment

public lifeeconomic leverage

efficienciesresources

collaboration

Managing change

Symposium 1: Masterplanning process under current conditions

Observations:

• Context: people and place matter• Clarity: what is the strategic intent?• Client: what is the role of the end user?• Collaboration: how are people involved?• Change: it is a constant

Issues:

• Engagement by design: how ?• Charrette: status?

Conditionmaking and priorities

Masterplanning process

Community Charrettes

How they are made, where they fit

Tensions:

• Authenticity: ‘theatre’ or open process?• Context: style driven or place driven?• Status: fit statutory plans or separate?• Impact: Fast design, slow delivery?

Propositions: responding to place by design

• Collaboration [Robinson]• Practice [Parham]• Policy [Thompson]

Symposium 2: The practice of community charrette design in the UK

EngagementReal time decisions?

SpeedConcentrated

resources?

priorities

Informing masterplanning process

Presentations:

• Pragmatism of Charettes-UoD research: Hina Hinari

• Knowledge-dialogue-place: Sandy Robinson

• Practice of Community Charettes: Susan Parham

• Place frameworks-learning from charettes: David Thompson

1

Pragmatism of Charrette

Views from stakeholders

Hina HiraniMSc, B.Arch (Hons), RIBA, RIAS

hina.hirani@gmail.com

26th October 2012

The Practice of Community Charrettes Design in the UK (Symposium)

Whom did I interview?

• Those involved in delivery of the project (private interests)

• Those who determine the context (public interests)

• Directly affected - local community

• Indirectly affected depending upon the context (wider community / interest groups)

• Academics (charrette & planning discipline)

• Media & campaign groups

• Users / clients for other projects

Group 2:

Affect the projectGroup 3:

Affected by the project

Group 1:

Experts / Independents

2

25 interviews in total across 3 groups

What did I ask?

3

Open ended discussions lasting between 30 to 90 minutes

What did I learn about charrette?

4

Strong view from most stakeholders on Charrette being better at understanding the need of end user than conventional planning process

Theme 1

Theme 2

Theme 3

Theme 4

Theme 5

Stakeholder engagement and ‘feedback loops’

Collaboration between stakeholders

Vision and outcomes

Accelerated timescale for dealing with complex issues

Leadership, knowledge and skill-set

Group 1&2 believed ‘it is well plugged into the community. It provides opportunity to increase stakeholders engagement ‘. While Group 3 felt ‘it's a great show and we’ve been listened but we have not been included in the decision-making process’. Thus the feedback loop isn’t closed.

‘It is a vehicle for collaboration between decision-makers, communities and professionals’. Working collaboratively helps all interested parties to understand and support a project's rationale.

charrette is very effective and focused approach which increases probability for implementation. ‘it also promotes trust between citizens and government through the building of long-term community goodwill’.

Mixed views due to the complex process. ‘fast track process tends to miss important issues within the time frame if pre-charrette stage is not done properly’.

‘If we need to mainstream this approach in planning system, it requires skilled facilitator with a good leadership to run event successfully’.

What’s necessary for change?

4

hina.hirani@gmail.com

Capability, engagement, leadership, trust, staying power

Thank you

‘For making places for people’…….as concluded in symposium 1-Masterplanning Process’

Key questionsGeddes Institute: Community Charettes

Engagement

What does pragmatic collaboration to guide change in places look like?

Speed

What is the role of design in changing places?

Engagement

What does pragmatic collaboration to manage change in places look like?

Key questionsGeddes Institute: Community Charettes

Organised by Husam Al Waer

Learning lessons from the practice of charrettes from Norway to Transylvania and beyond