Architectures of Participation Research Cluster 12
12.22 The Bartlett School of Architecture 2016
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Fig. 12.22 Group 5: Yu Zhang ‘Third Space Peckham’. Public opinion collection. In order to raise local awareness of the Council’s plan, and acquire public ideas, a consultation noticeboard was placed in the bus station. Fig. 12.23 Group 1: Wen Cui, Yuan-Tse Kao, Tianyue Li, Qingrui Meng ‘Power of Peckham’. Post Box Human Printer. Inspired by the original Mechanical Turk, we designed a postbox where the people of Peckham could get a letter about local planning issues by pushing a button. Most participants were attracted by curiosity as to whether there was someone inside the box. Figs. 12.24 – 12.25 Group 2: Huan Liu, Meiying Yu, Xin Yu ‘Self Build Newham’. Fig. 12.24 We worked with the Focus E15 Mothers, an activist group who had been ejected from council housing in Newham, to explore the relevance of self-build to
real people under real pressure. Fig. 12.25 Using a modular design process in the self-build framework. Fig. 12.26 Group 4: Moritz Maria Karl, Masayuki Sado, Jiaying Yang ‘Newham on Air’. An urban communication infrastructure generating open-source tools and platforms for ordinary people to participate.
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