p. 26 From Urban Space to Future Place — The UrbanIxD Summer School 2013
Time
Context can be considered as an intertwined web of significances in which we situate our design processes. Here the issue of time is a crucial element; the passing of time is one of the few universal aspects of human experience. During the total of 460,800 minutes the participants spent in Split during the summer school, three ideas arose about time; time as a resource and constraint, time as temporality and time as an element in the methodology of design fictions.
UrbanIxD
Time as resource and constraint Obviously, time is a limited resource. Both in terms of the number of minutes we each have during our lifetime but also as a resource we devote to certain activities and relationships. For the summer school, the resources of the UrbanIxD project allowed for eight days of participant time spent on designing scenarios for cities. During the summer school, the constraints of this timespan brought up tensions about the ambitions of the questions that could be addressed. As participants, our relationship with time went through several
transformations during the week, depending on the stage of the process we were in, and on the time left until the deadline.