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4 Active House Metric, Centennial Park Active House, 2016. The Active House metric focuses on comfort, environment, and energy, producing a score for how the building performs. This diagram shows the relationships and tradeoffs between the different parameters such as thermal comfort and energy use. Image courtesy Velux.
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In architecture, the term resilience tends to be used narrowly describe a building’s structural and environmental performance in quantitative terms—but can a building be called resilient if it fails to make inspiring spaces for people, promote well-being, or improve people’s experience? The chapter begins by exploring how the term is currently eval...
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As resilient cities rely on leveraging people’s voices, promoting active
participation to encounter socio-spatial vulnerability is pivotal. This paper
provides methodological reflections on a participatory research
intervention in Amman and reports on the lessons learnt from this very
process. The city’s resilience strategy emphasised the sudden increase of
population and thus suggested inclusive approaches to resilience. Hence,
the conducted intervention aimed to create and sustain partnerships
between various stakeholders, and engage them in spatial modes of thought
towards supporting vulnerable communities’ involvement in public life and
improving their access to public spaces. The research (which combined
interdisciplinary workshops and outdoor excursions) involved partners in a
collaborative process of investigation, action, and education. Each of the
workshops was tailored to the attending participants, and included creating
collages, creative writing, basic cartography, storytelling games, and
collecting objects from nature. The paper raises questions, first, about how
the collaborative nature of this intervention expanded civically, linking
theory with practice and decision-making with sociocultural needs. Second,
it addresses the dynamics of sustaining existing collaborations while
creating new ones between the researcher, local, and refugee communities,
authority figures, local community centres, and international non-
governmental organisations. Third, it examines the researcher’s role as a
mediator with multiple positionalities. Finally, this paper reports on the
extent to which the complex synergies connecting different agencies can
support the process of addressing socio-spatial vulnerability, amplifying the
voice of the ordinary citizen, and creating exceptional venues for knowledge
exchange in a context that currently lacks such practices.
In recent years, the international commons movement has increasingly joined forces with the global movement of municipalities, putting common ideas on the political agenda in many western countries. Commons have been widely discussed in literature. Broadly understood, commons refers to the practices for collective development, ownership, management, and fair access to resources and artifacts (social, cultural, economic, political, environmental, and technological). However, the concept remains vague, complex, and unclear, especially when it comes to different contexts in which new definitions are needed to better understand the societal and cultural dimensions of urban commons. Decolonizing the notion of urban commons brings into visibility the unseen cultures, infrastructural systems, and communities showing where de-growth and separation can take place. Therefore, this analysis can provide new insights, opportunities, and the need for new theoretical, methodological, and shared approaches. There is a gap in transnational research and cultural understanding within the field of urban commons. This research opens new lines of inquiry relating to the definitions of commons in non-European countries. This may include longitudinal research on the decolonization and potential fragmenting of the commons and in particular 'commoning' mindset, more detailed empirical evidence of the cultural and communal concepts, and how these cultural diversities and new interpretations can be implemented in collaborative governance in a wider variety of non-western contexts. By challenging existing frameworks, this study facilitates the emergence of differentiated, dynamic, and non-linear forms of social and political subjectivity within various sociospatial domains.
