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An experiment in deliberative land-use planning Hoi Kong Faculty of Law McGill University Nik Luka Schools of Architecture and Urban Planning McGill University. The Issue. Citizens are excluded from meaningful participation in planning processes.
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An experiment in deliberative land-use planningHoi KongFaculty of LawMcGill University Nik LukaSchools of Architecture and Urban PlanningMcGill University Research funding provided by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
The Issue Citizens are excluded from meaningful participation in planning processes. Constraints of time, resources and capacity.
Why Is Exclusion a Problem? Issues of Legitimacy Issues of Accountability Issues of Effectiveness
What Are Some Challenges? Closing the Expert-Layperson Gap Finding Institutions to Mediate Between Citizens and the State
Place-based action-research for engendering meaningful deliberation on local planning matters Design development should be analogous to the classical designer-client relationship (which often entails a Socratic debate involving only one ‘citizen-user’—i.e., the ‘client’), scaled up … BUT HOW ?! KONG + LUKA :: PLPR7 :: PORTLAND :: 13.02.2013
Place-based action-research for engendering meaningful deliberation on local planning matters Linking POLITIES to MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES through CIVIL SOCIETY … via the UNIVERSITY LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNIVERSITY xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CIVIL SOCIETY KONG + LUKA :: PLPR7 :: PORTLAND :: 13.02.2013
Earlier pilot projects undertaken in Montréal EXPERIMENTAL PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES USING NEW DIGITAL MEDIA …FROM THE NEIGHBOURHOOD TO THE BUILDING SITE 1. Green, active, healthyneighbourhoods 2. Rethinking Saint-Viateur 3. Bâtiment 7 « à nous » KONG + LUKA :: PLPR7 :: PORTLAND :: 13.02.2013
Digitally-Mediated Community-Based Design: LINKING UNIVERSITIES AND CIVIL SOCIETY Issues (language, access, digital divide…) Balancing the ‘live’ and the ‘virtual’ Finding ‘comfort zones’ Capacity of polities to engage in complexdecision-making KONG + LUKA :: PLPR7 :: PORTLAND :: 13.02.2013
Digitally-Mediated Community-Based Design: PROCESS AND EXAMPLES (Rethinking Saint-Viateur) Online Questionnaire Workshop with key community stakeholders Design development (architecture & planning students) Vetting of preliminary scenarios (neighbourhood kiosk and online forum) Final recommendations for intervention KONG + LUKA :: PLPR7 :: PORTLAND :: 13.02.2013
PARTICIPATORY PLANNING + DESIGN PROCESS phase 1 UNDERSTANDthe study area—itsproblemsand possibilities portrait of the study area KONG + LUKA :: PLPR7 :: PORTLAND :: 13.02.2013
PARTICIPATORY PLANNING + DESIGN PROCESS phase 1 UNDERSTANDthe study area—itsproblemsand possibilities phase 2 EXPLOREplanning and design strategies > portrait of the study area vision, priorities, and potential interventions > Portrait de quartier KONG + LUKA :: PLPR7 :: PORTLAND :: 13.02.2013
PARTICIPATORY PLANNING + DESIGN PROCESS phase 1 UNDERSTANDthe study area—itsproblemsand possibilities phase 3 CO-PRODUCEthe future of the study area phase 2 EXPLOREplanning and design strategies > portrait of the study area vision, priorities, and potential interventions > vetting of options, plan production, regulatory reform > Portrait de quartier > Vision de quartier> Priorités d’interventions>Solutions d’aménagement > > KONG + LUKA :: PLPR7 :: PORTLAND :: 13.02.2013
Digitally-Mediated Community-Based Design: BELLECHASSE PROJECT STRATEGY (2013-15) Online Questionnaire Community visioning workshops Design development (architecture & planning students) Vetting of preliminary scenarios (neighbourhood kiosk, communuity workshops, and online forum) Design development (architecture & planning students) Critical review with municipal officials Recommendations for regulatory reform KONG + LUKA :: PLPR7 :: PORTLAND :: 13.02.2013
Conclusions How to Integrate Into Legal Processes? Ad Hoc: Affleck de la Riva Example (Square des Frères-Charron) Reworking Existing Procedures: Replacing the Referendum + Reason-Giving