Envisioning
Envisioning is the process of imagining alternative futures. In urban practice, this is often achieved through the development of scenarios. Urbanist Raul Baunschoten describes scenarios as “narrations of urban possibilities, alternative realities, alternative practices”. In the context of a participative and open-ended urban practice, envisioning different scenarios can be used to collectively explore the conditions of a place, and to open up conversations about future design and planning decisions and their potential consequences.
References
Concepts
Article: Designed to Improve? The makings, politics and aesthetics of ‘social’ architecture and design
Webpage: Co-design & making: Paving the Roads to Social Inclusion
Blog: Reglobalisation in action- Part 7: Envisioning ‘global migration governance’
Magazine: Diary of a Planner: Scenarios
Stories
Article: Participation & (Re)settlement : envisioning mobile services with young forced migrants
Video: Transformation for better housing
Website: MELA project
Master’s Thesis: Co-designing a Chatbot for and with Refugees and Migrants