Proactive visionary thought and participatory action in environmental design

proactivevisionary thought and participatory action in environmental design

thomaz yuji baba

involving & empoweringcitizenship RESPONSIBLE

socialy & environmentally+

conservative principles

instead of social justice & ecological vision

designerclient/project

v.s

model

no vision making between the partsclient comes with the solution and NOT with the problem

consequences

causescontract lawculture of practiceconcerns liability

designerclient/project

coop with

model

long term design

categories

collaborativecooperativebuild community

private visionarypublic professionalprofessional without profitsactivist university

professional w/ profitsvolunteers, employees or paid consultants

private visionarypart time dedicationlabor of love

GAS Works Park: designed by Richard Haagthe park incorporates numeroues pieces

of the old plant

public professionalgenerally in public agenciesrestriction between vision and action

Myanmar Community Driven Development Project: this project aims to address villages to start having

access to services and infrastructuredelivered by the people

professional without profitvolunteers, employees or paid consultants

Architecture for Humanity: A nonprofit organization with a network

of more than 50.000 professionals willing togive their time to support communities

activist universitycenter, institute or collegeeducation in favor of the community

EMAU: a brazilian project held by architecturestudents that consists on projected based

on community supported vision

“ What seems missing, we believe, is a sense of commom purposeconnecting the practice of architecture to the most consequentialissues of society

1996 Boyer Report

OCUPAÇÃO GUARANI KAIOWÁ: a project developed by social scientists, lawyers, architects and urban

planners, and students of Architecture and Urban Planning in Belo Horizonte - Brazil. It envolved 140 poor

families and the whole community was engaged to develop the ocupation of an unused area in the suburbs

of Contagem, Brazil.