A participative approach to architecture challenges many of the normative values of traditional architecture and in particular issues of authorship, control, aesthetics and the role of the use. This book questions whether a participative approach may lead to new spatial conditions as well as to new types of architectural practices and investigates the way that the user has been included in the design process.
Contents:
Introduction * Peter Blundell Jones, Doina Petrescu, Jeremy Till SECTION 1: POLITICS OF PARTICIPATION 1. Architecture's Public Giancarlo De Carlo 2. The Negotiation of Hope Jeremy Till 3. Losing Control, Keeping Desire Doina Petrescu 4. Mass housing cannot be sustained Jon Broome 5. Reinventing public participation: planning in the age of consensus Tim Richardson and Stephen Connelly 6. How Inhabitants Can Become Collective Developers Anne Querrien, 7. City/Democracy: Retrieving Citizenship Theresa Hoskins SECTION 2: HISTORIES OF PARTICIPATION 8. Sixty-eight and after Peter Blundell Jones 9. Fragments of Participation in Architecture 1963 - 2002 Eilfried Huth 10 Notes on Participation Peter Sulzer 11. Kemal Özcül: Eco prize 2034 Peter Hübner 12. Özcül Postcript: The Gelsenkirchen School as Built Peter Blundell Jones SECTION 3: PRACTICES OF PARTICIPATION 13. Animal Town Planning and Homeopathic Architecture Lucien Kroll 14. What if?... a narrative process Prue Chiles 15. Politics beyond the White Cube Marion von Osten 16. How do you do 'what you do' ? * MUF and Katherine Vaughan Williams 17. Urban Catalysis and Other Games Stalker 18. Points, Spirals and Prototypes Raoul Bunschoten/CHORA 19. Your place, or mine? FLUID