Title:Stimulating students through community participatory

design process

Theme:Exploring an effective way to develop a stimulating teaching

and learning method on planning and design through a short and concentrated program for beginning students.

Koichi Kobayashi, ASLAKobayashi & Associates, Seattle/Shanghai

University of Washington

Tongji University

Preface:

Community design and planning has become a common part of urban planning and design practice in the Pacific Rim. In

publishing “[Re]constructing Communities”, 2005, Jeff Hou, Mark Fransis and Nathan Brightbill wrote: With deep roots in advocacy

planning and citizen participation developed in the United States, citizen participation and community planning can now also be

found in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and even in China. The

movement toward citizen participation has been echoed by the Machizukuri Movement in Japan, the Community Building

Movement in Taiwan, and an emerging challenge to the top down urban planning and redevelopment process in Hong Kong.

More recently, decentralization of decision making in China has

led to more government-led community building programs, and some experiments in participatory planning process.”

I have been involved in educating all levels of landscape

architectural students in China as well as in USA and Japan overthe last 35 years in full time and lately in part time situation. I have

been asked to serve as a special lecture, studio critic as well as

studio leader on a limited time basis on a number of occasions to date. Through these experiences, an exploration to develop a

stimulating teaching and learning method through a short and concentrated program employing participatory community design

has been conceived. This ppresentation is to illustrate how a community based design proposal could be employed to inspire

students in participatory community design, to test a short and

concentrated charrette planning and design process could be employed to introduce a group of beginning students and to

attempt to compare applicability for such an instruction methodsamong different countries. Method proposed has been utilized

widely employed in USA, Japan and in other countries, especially

to advanced students, however rarely to beginning student groups.

Background on

Participatory Community Design

through two

previous projects:

Rainier Vista Community Development, Seattle

Seattle Water Front Improvement Plan

Rainier Vista

Residential

Redevelopment

Seattle Housing Authority

Seattle

Washington

Seattle Waterfront

Redevelopment

Idea Charrett

City of Seattle

The Charrette!!

2

1TEAM

Team Downtown Seattle

Association

Our intention is to create a

people-centered, economically vibrant

and ecologically sound waterfront

1TEAM

Team Downtown Seattle Association

1TEAM

Team Downtown Seattle Association

Watch cruise shipsWatch cruise ships

Ride a bike to the

beach

Ride a bike to the

beach

A Day in the

Life

of the

Waterfront

A Day in the

Life

of the

Waterfront

Commute via jitneyCommute via jitney

A Day in the

Life

of the

Waterfront

A Day in the

Life

of the

Waterfront

A Day in the

Life

of the

Waterfront

A Day in the

Life

of the

Waterfront

Lunch in the sculpture gardenLunch in the sculpture garden

Shop at Pike Place MarketShop at Pike Place Market

A Day in the

Life

of the

Waterfront

A Day in the

Life

of the

Waterfront

Watch the sunset on Puget

Sound

…from your kayak

Watch the sunset on Puget

Sound

…from your kayak

A Day in the

Life

of the

Waterfront

A Day in the

Life

of the

Waterfront

6TEAMInterventions play both into the bay and into the

city, rationalize and complete the waterfront. A

series of buildings provide an economic basis for

development.

Hybrid City

Street alignment was used to site and configure islands in Elliott Bay

6TEAM

Hybrid City

6TEAM

Hybrid City

6TEAM

Hybrid City

Seattle’s Central Waterfront

Plan Summary

1

Stimulating students through community participatory design

process

Case Study from Ohno River

Rehabilitation Project

Osaka, Japan

INTRODUCTION

A design studio was organized to be their first design project

for a period of two weeks with the following purposes.To illustrate how a community based proposal was employed

to inspire students in participatory community designTo present how community based design could be utilized as

an advocacy proposalTo test how a short charrett type instruction could be

employed to introduce students on planning and design process

To validate author’s intuition in the profession and education in cross cultural situation

Purpose and Schedule

Students

The Client

Project

DESIGN PROPOSAL

Findings and conclusions:

Some of the findings and conclusions from this program indicate

the following:

* Students valued the process involved and required to proceed through in a short duration of time. However, they

expressed concerns related to working with their own group dynamics and collaboration to moving on the projects.

* Project needs a close assistance from the resident faculty

familiar with students and their own institutions curricula and facilities.

* Project needs a strong support from the community involved.