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First co-design workshop with critical community representatives and stakeholders at the City Hall of Prague 22 (Photo: Davidová 2019).
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This article argues that whilst our recent economic models are dependent on the overall ecosystem, they do not reflect this fact. As a result of this, we are facing Anthropocene mass extinction. The paper presents a collaborative regenerative region (COLreg) co-creation and tokenisation, involving multiple human and non-human, living and non-living...
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... the first stage, we agreed to invite only the critical expert stakeholders and critical community representatives to engage the larger audience through their network (see Figure 4). The workshop covered eight participants who were selected based on their direct interest in the locality. ...
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... Gigamapping [36,37] was used for assessing, adapting, and applying the selected methods for stakeholder analyses, and also for structuring and analysing the collected data. Gigamaps were produced using Miro (miro.com), ...
Urban greenspaces (UGS) provide a range of ecosystem services and are instrumental in ensuring the liveability of cities. Whilst incorporating UGS in increasingly denser cities is a challenge to planners, brownfields form a latent resource with the potential of being converted into UGS. Transformation of brownfields to greenspaces, however, requires engagement of a variety of stakeholders, from providers to users. The overall aim of this study was to support effective and realistic realisations of UGS in the context of urban brownfields' regeneration and stakeholder engagement. A working process was developed to: 1) integrate methods relevant for UGS realisation for a) identification and catego-rising of relevant stakeholders, b) mapping their interests and resources, c) identifying various challenges, and d) matching those challenges with the mapped resources over the timeline of UGS development; and 2) apply these methods to assess relevance and shortcomings. The methods were applied to a study site in Sweden, and data was collected using a questionnaire survey. The survey received 31 responses and the respon-dents' comments indicated that the combination of several uses, especially integrated with an urban park, is preferable. Visualisation was an important component for data analysis: stakeholder categorisation was effectively visualised using a Venn diagram, and the needed mobilisation of resources among stakeholders to manage identified challenges was visualised using a timeline. The analysis demonstrates the need for collaboration between stakeholders to achieve an effective realisation of UGS and how multiple methods can be used in concert to map stakeholders, preferences, challenges, and resources for a particular site. The application at a study site provided site-specific data but the developed stakeholder categorisation, and the method for matching identified challenges with the stakeholders' resources using a timeline, can be generalised to applications at other sites.
... Gigamapping (Davidová & Zímová, 2021;Sevaldsen, 2012) was used for assessing, adapting, and applying the selected methods for stakeholder analyses, and also for structuring and analysing the collected data. Gigamaps were produced using Miro (miro.com), ...
Circular Economy (CE) is regarded as an efficient strategy to address the challenges arising from the linear ‘take-make-use-dispose’ system of exploitation of resources. Urban land and soil are among the most exploited resources wherein brownfields, the potentially contaminated and currently obsolete land, can be considered the waste of the linear land use system. Recent CE policies and action plans acknowledge soil as a finite resource and set out clear directives for circular management of both soil and land. Brownfields pose possibility to integrate Urban Greenspaces (UGS) in increasingly denser cities to provide a range of Ecosystem Services (ES) and are instrumental in ensuring the liveability of cities. To manage risks posed by contaminants present at these brownfields, UGS can be combined with Gentle Remediation Options (GRO). Gentle remediation options are remediation strategies involving plants, fungi, bacteria, and soil amendments for managing contamination risks and simultaneously improve or at least maintain the soil quality. The overall aim of this PhD project is to develop adequate tools and methods to facilitate bringing brownfields back in use by combining UGS and GRO. This thesis presents four studies: i) a framework for identification of different UGS at a brownfield, ii) a framework for identification of potential GRO strategies for a site, iii) a working process for stakeholder analysis to explore their interests, resources, and challenges related to different UGS at a site, and finally iv) a framework to support the exploration of combining UGS and GRO on a brownfield and which integrates the tools and methods in the aforementioned studies.. The final framework is demonstrated in the case study site Polstjärnegatan in Gothenburg, Sweden, and challenged in a workshop with relevant stakeholders. The necessity of such an approach is validated as it can potentially increase the value derived from the depreciated brownfields progressively and it can support the formulation of long-term goals for sites. Some additional needs are also identified to support the practical application of the framework and they are: procedures to monetise the value generation over time, tools for estimating the time required for risk reduction with GRO (and thus the cost), and tools for selecting suitable plants, bacteria, fungi and soil amendments for more detailed site design
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Rapid urbanization has led some Chinese cities to extend to hillside sites with recurrent patterns of flattening sloping terrain to erect high rise buildings. This approach usually results in disturbing local ecosystems which protection is an important requirement towards achieving the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Studies examining the special patterns of urban extensions onto hills and the driving forces of behind the deterioration of environmental quality in cities are scarce. This paper aims to answer two questions; “What are the definitions and goals for sustainable landscape design for hillside urban extensions?” and “What are the real causes for the unsustainability of current urban hillside housing developments?” These questions will be approached, first through a literature review, and second through considering the case study of Chongqing Yue Lai eco-city and examining the limitation and remediation through the whole process of the land construction loop within the systemic approach. This article illustrates how sustainable urban hillside landscape design and planning can be achieved by balancing the priorities of four key stakeholders (government, developers, city dwellers, and local ecosystem). This calls for shifting from the central planning system dominated by local governments by including the equally important priorities of its citizens (human actors) and non-human actors (ecosystem).
... Both perspectives need to be taken into consideration. Therefore, this model addresses 'time-based design' [38] that constantly coevolves across multiple stakeholders (users) in real-time and real-life environments, within the 'real-life codesign laboratory' [39,40]. This laboratory cocreates a prototype of a new economic model of Post-Anthropocene where different kinds of living beings have a wallet and can operate with it. ...
... This appears in the RDRS that offers information, media and stakeholder richness [56]. In this case, the RDRS is represented through a 'real-life codesign laboratory' which is a non-reductionist laboratory where the design is tested, developed and redesigned through real-life interaction in feedback loops in real-life environments [39,40]. Into this laboratory, 'prototypical urban interventions' are placed that were invented by CHORA [57]. ...
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improved through the ‘gamification’ of and interaction with, more-than-human elements within the environment. It argues that such quality may be achieved through the community’s multicentered value from the bottom up. This is shown through the case study of the Co-De|GT urban mobile application that was developed in the Synergetic Landscapes unit through real-life research by design experimental studio teaching. Complimentary experimentation took place during the Relating Systems Thinking and Design 10 symposium in the Co-De|BP workshop, where experts were able to be collocated for interactive real-time data gathering. This application addresses the need for collective action towards more-than-human synergy across an urban ecosystem through gamification, community collaboration and DIY culture. It intends to generate a sustainable, scalable token economy where humans and non-humans play equal roles, earning, trading and being paid for goods and services to test such potentials for future economies underpinned by blockchain. This work diverges from dominant economic models that do not recognise the performance of and the limits to, material extraction from the ecosystem. The current economic model has led to the global financial crisis (GFC). Furthermore, it is based on the unsustainable perpetual consumption of services and goods, which may lead to the untangling and critical failure of the market system globally. Therefore, this work investigates how gamification and tokenization may support a complementary and parallel economic market that sustains and grows urban ecosystems. While the research does not speculate on policy implications, it posits how such markets may ameliorate some of the brittleness apparent in the global economic model. It demonstrates a systemic approach to urban ecosystem performance for the future post-Anthropocene communities and economies.
... The author discussed the importance of combining gigamapping and prototyping in other publications [56,61]. The gigamaps map the complexity related to the prototype whilst the real-life prototypes test the complexity within the 'real-life codesign laboratory', which means that the prototypes are tested in the complexity of real-life environment [62][63][64]. The research analyses existing examples from the past because such prototypes were tested over generations through real life. ...
... The human citizens believe the swallows bring them luck. They also lower the number of mosquitoes and are a sign of healthy environment (photo:Davidová, 2021). ...
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The work-in-progress project relates ecosystems with socio-technological systems (STS) in urban environments. It focuses on the development of more-than-human cities of the post-Anthropocene. Through a prototypical urban intervention POL-AI built from responsive wood, we aim to support more-than-human edible and habitable landscapes on existing buildings, thus
supporting urban connectivity for wild nature elements such as insects. The prototype covers elements that are often used in so-called insect hotels, pollinator gardens and artificial intelligence (AI) monitoring systems for pollination, garden ecosystems and responsive wood performance of habitats. Further on, this prototype will include QR codes, leading to its own Do-it-Yourself (DIY) recipe and a citizen-science mobile application, Spot-a-Bee', that informs the AI image recognition database when the pollinators are pollinating. Therefore, the project becomes generative. The prototype has been developed through gigamapping, which is a Systems Oriented Design tool for synergising the multi-centred perspective of related stakeholders. It is being robotically fabricated. However, making its iterations in makers' labs or even on a mitre saw should be easy. We have recently faced high extinction rates in wild species and their habitats. The "Planetary Boundaries" model clearly points to biodiversity loss as one of the most alarming global issues. Yet, for some species, urban environments can offer better habitats than poisoned agricultural land; however, the connectivity between urban habitats is often low. Therefore, urban adaptations for more-than-human architecture are necessary to counteract biodiversity loss.
