Projects
policies pedagogies practices
The mutual benefit of working cross-dimensional is informing both our individual and collective analytic about the “other” aspects of power distribution in the process of urban co-production. Our dimensions allow us to scale our analysis up or down in order to follow the process of knowledge circulation.
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Getting insights from the local community dimension is beneficial for both the professional and policy dimension and vice versa. Tracing the circulation of knowledge horizontally and vertically through our dimensions will set the ground for more informed conclusions around more inclusive and socially just power distribution in city-making.
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dimension I
Policymakers
municipal networks' methods
Laura Sobral
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Policymakers generally have insufficient practical knowledge about how territories, lived spaces, everyday geographies and local communities work. So there is a problem with the adaptation and implementation of lessons learned from other cities to new territories. This disconnection between top down decisions and bottom up initiatives makes that the necessary trust to share power with local communities is difficult to develop.
dimension II
Urban Professionals
actions, methods and tools
Burcu AteÅŸ
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The majority of current architectural/urban design practices no more present a reflection against or respond to today’s multiple crises, they neither develop critical solutions nor adopt a multi-perspective approach which is ready to encourage the use of more non-Western/Northern knowledge. So there is a problem with the methods and tools.
dimension III
Local Communities
practices and sensibilities
Predrag Milić
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In the urban development processes the decision-making power is usually based outside the local communities while their power is often instrumentalized; participatory processes of urban design are usually not conceptualised on the basis of local knowledge and trustful relationships and quite often do not provide space for power distribution among its participants.