Engaging
Engaging means deepening relationships with people and sites and working collaboratively with others to change a situation for the better. In urban practice, an engaged approach is one that challenges traditional hierarchies—for instance between researchers and ‘researched’, designers and ‘users’—and strives to bring together the knowledge and capacities of different people to catalyse action. Engaged practice acknowledges that those who have been excluded hold unique wisdom about exclusion and its consequences, and prioritises processes of change that are produced collectively and from the ground-up.
References
Concepts
Journal: Reassembling Austerity Research
Article: Collaborative Research in Academic Environments
Article: Community Based Research Partnerships
Article: To Do and Know Something Together
Stories
Article: Refugee settlement and the revival of local communities
Article: Mapping San Siro Lab: Experimenting Grounded, Interactive and Mutual Learning for Inclusive Cities
Website: Urbane Praxis Berlin
Webinar: Reflections on participation through urban living labs in superdiverse neighborhoods