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Radius 100 Model - Site-methodology

Food Hackathon, Derive, 2018-19 [1]

Design inquiry & experimental innovation, 2017-18 [2]

Site-participatory research & Design, 2020-21 [3]

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Walk & talk, Musrara 2024-25

Imageability, 2021-22 [4]

Imageability, 2019-20 [5]

Derive, 2020-21 [6] Derive, 2020-21 [7]

Ismail Faroun, Nag’ham Copty, 2017-18 [8]

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Radius 100 Model The Radius 100 model is introduced in this chapter by its main principles and sub-segments of divergent and open-ended modes. The multi-layered experimental triangulations between theory, field methodol-

ogies, design charrettes and applied tools layout our core Meta-idea of knowledge-crossing as an inherent aspect in toolboxes for social-design projects.

The model enables an intrinsic analytical scheme that encourages a particular pattern workflow adapted to each project’s research and social design proposal.

This chapter concludes with a prototype of concept visualisation illustrating the methodological cyclical processes and iterative step-stages modes introduced by the Radius 100 model.

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Radius 100 Model | Theory

Theory Theory is guided in the model by a core vision of apply-

Guy Debord, of the the Situationists3, and Kevin Lynch

ing theory as a knowledge practice. We focus then on

adopted this meta-city idea of Lefevbre when articulat-

the usability of theory as a key component that aims to

ing, at times manifesting, their theoretical and method-

build up and validate the thematic conceptual develop-

ological claims of ‘Dérive’ and ‘imageability’ as strategic

ment stage when designing city social-design propos-

tools for analyzing and acting in environ sites as a terri-

als. It is our academic conviction that adopting diverse

tory embodying of the concept of city citizenship.

bodies of theory adds a research-layer for exploring, gathering and analysing findings when co-framing and triangulating theory and design. Dialoguing multi-disciplinary bodies of theory-knowledge with design allows linking methodological research processes with design intuition, inspiration and creativity. Theory as a model mode offers a cluster of theories such as urban theory, environmental psychology, human-based field research, senses-based theories1, material data and global and local case studies.

Theory is defined by Lefevbre’s ‘right to the city’, emphasising the city as environs for political-social-democratic agendas, a ‘call to action’, where people are encouraged

The Naked City – Guy Debord & Asger Jorn, SI – 1957

to reclaim their involvement in the process of shaping and reshaping everyday life in urbanscape2.

1 Such as sense of place, soundwalks and soundscape, visionscape, walkability. etc..

2 The notion of the ‘right to the city’ echoes in latter theories in the demand for social justice and confronting spatial inequalities regarding marginal groups side-by-side and with the demand for a dignified access to urban life as basic but often negated human rights manifest.

3 The Situationists (SI), a political avant-garde group debating social issues also concerned with the city life as experienced by city-citizens in ‘directly lived experiences’. The Situationists offered a critical reading of the city promoting individual pro-action to (also) express Lefebvre’s ‘right to the city’.

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Radius 100 Model | Theory

The theory of the Dérive offers an opportunity for

in the environ-typology of the city are articulated. i.e

enacting city exploration as a tactic for creating city cit-

This Derive-action aimed at countering and disrupting

izens’ awareness of the impact of the city on their daily

the familiar socio-typological representations of space

life. Dérive designs an innovative opportunity for con-

reveals fractures in social terrain as ‘openings for some-

structing a new outlook on the city as a personal experi-

thing new’ that in later theories would be defined as pro-

ence. At the core of this method is a form of explorative

moting bottom-up suggested social interventions.

unplanned journey, a ‘drift-walking’ in a city environment where participants let go of their usual objectives,

Another theoretical notion of re-reading the city is Kevin

engagements, and daily tasks for an undefined period

Lynch’s ‘imageability’ that refigures city users’ men-

of time, and plunge themselves into a disorientation of

tal-image map of environ behavioural-geography5. That

their habitual axes so as to be drawn by unforeseen

is, Imageability refigures, through a perceptual map of

emotional and psychological experience or surprising

the city’s physical environment, the city users’ observa-

social encounters and uncover hidden aspects of urban

tion of the terrain as a visual illustration of behavioural

life, varied ambiances and senses-spatial attractions as

reading of the environment. Imageability patterns itself

a new-reading of the city fostering a deeper connection

around main spatial elements such as paths, nodes,

to the environment.

edges, landmarks, and districts.

Debord emphasises that this method is not ‘mere exoticism’ but instead offers an opportunity for a critical analysis of city-life that gives place to the emotions and actions of individuals’ personal sense of place. As a central method of the situationist’s movement, Dérive is perceived as a metapraxis of a psycho-geographically4 collage mapping of the city. In the process of creative re-imagining, various possibilities of social intervention

Kevin Lynch and Gary Hack, 1984.

4 Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as an inventive strategy for exploring cities. Psychogeography relates to the effects and effects of a defined locality on the emotions and actions of an individual’s sense of place.

5 Behavioural geography is a subfield of human geography that focuses on the ways in which human behaviour is spatially distributed and how it interacts with the environment. It examines the psychological processes underlying people’s decisions and actions regarding the space and place they inhabit.

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William Whyte’s study of pedestrian behaviour6 as a

exploration techniques, taxonomy and measurement

city’s socio-dynamics further adds a methodological

methods, smell walks, sound-walks, questionnaires,

frame for observing and analysing individual engage-

smell maps, soundmaps, interviews and recordings7.

ments and community/social interactions and their

Walkability, as another explorative theory, considers

dynamics in the case of public spaces such as corpo-

the various fields of physical environment, sustainability,

rate plazas, urban streets, parks and other open spaces.

accessibility, connectivity, safety expressions and social & social justice concerns8.

These methodological inquiry-modes for analysing city experience as a dynamic entity, connect the macro notion of the ‘Right to the city’ to specific place identity theories exploring sense of place and place attachment.

Perceiving senses of place and place attachments as a socially/personally ongoing daily endeavour unfolds the impact of the wide entanglement of environ`s history, memory, temporal meanings (past and contemporary), built environment and materiality (physical-geography) on the social/personal experiencing of space and in space and the specific hands-on site practices and behavioural patterns.

R. Murray Schater, 1975

SMELLSCAPE URBAN – NATURE workshop by studio Omer Polak

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6 Whyte, William H, 1980.

7 Schafer, 1977 8 Pak, Verbeke 2013.

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