Overcoming the climate emergency won’t stop with decarbonising electricity production.
Design to Value., I was immediately taken by the humility of the process.
This project was the city’s response to the allocation of 20,000 migrants fleeing Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq to be housed.This was a people problem with complex, strong and diverse views and issues to negotiate.Although they used some very advanced modelling techniques, this was done only to support and inform a big conversation.
They largely got rid of the traditional processes of city planning, keeping only those things that seemed immovable.Instead they used a process of discussion.
They brought together those already living in the city, those who would need to provide services and through agencies heard the voices of refugees themselves.
They allowed worries, concerns and aspirations to be voiced, using the modelling to inform debate and to regulate emotional catastrophising.These processes need to flow, react and come together, in order to make the desired outcome happen.
It’s really important, therefore, that we understand these processes in detail.They are what help us design the most efficient built assets, best suited to delivering the outcomes we set out to achieve..
Process engineering and a DtV approach.Process engineering is closely linked to Design to Value thinking.