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Design School Kolding DK: DESIS Lab Denmark Anne Corlin Words Upon a Place
Design School KoldingDK: DESIS LabDenmarkAnne Corlin
Words Upon a Place
Promoters.Design School KoldingAlexandra InstituteKolding MunicipalityKolding LibraryByliv Kolding
Funders.Kolding MunicipalityLBF (national building foundation)
Aknowledgements.19 brave citizens in Kolding
Context.The increased mobility of people across the world is a premise that needs to be taken into account and cities must be designed towards being able to accomodate that. Placing newcomers in segregated places in cities is not the solution.
The Project.The design experiment ´Words Upon a Place´ uses the design process and placement of four interactive benches, situated in two locations in the Danish city, Kolding: The deprived social housing neighbourhood, Skovparken, and the Library Park, to explore how design can be used to create coherence across the city, interaction between people and support social life.
The design process.The project started with preparations for two workshops,- ‘Story Telling Cafe’, where participants were asked to tell a story based on the place, to be incorporated into the benches. After the workshop, the benches were developed and placed in August 2017. The benches work as such: when one sits on them, a story from one of the two places is played.
The benches can be seen as metaphors for a community in the city, and are used to break down barriers. The benches with stories from the deprived neighbourhood, Skovparken, potentially contribute to give a voice to
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Doing Design
Equal Access to the City
Governance and Policy Making
Activism and Civic Participation
The project started with preparations for two participant workshops - ‘Story Telling Cafe’ for which the participants were invited through Facebook and personal network. The workshops were conducted in a participatory process,
Story Telling Café
Participatory Design
The project focuses on social sustainable city development, and wanted to investigate how design could be used to support a coherent city and interaction between citizens.
Breaking Down Barriers
Coherent City
Social Interactions and Relations
The project is part of a research project initiated as a collaboration between Kolding Municipality and Design School Kolding to gain knowledge about social sustainable city development. It focuses on how design of public
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Collaborative Places
Social Sustainable City Planning
City and Environmental Planning
The project shows how interaction between Design School Kolding, the Municipality and the public life can provide knowledge about doing design and acting on design in the field.
Collaboration
Doing Design
Skill Training and Design Education
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