Urban and regional design: Making the design process explicit

Urban and regional design: Making the design process explicit

Van Dooren, E.J.G.C.
Willekens, L.A.M.

Architecture and The Built Environment

Architectural Engineering and Technology

2014-12-31

Urban and regional design are fundamental skills in the field of urban studies. Designing is a complex, personal, creative and open-ended skill. Performing a well-developed skill is mainly an implicit activity. In teaching, however, it is essential to make explicit what to do. Learning a complex skill like designing, is a matter of doing and becoming aware what should be done and how to do it. Therefore it will be helpful for teachers and students to make the steps, methods and/or activities in the design process explicit. This paper distinguishes five generic elements in the urban and regional design process. These elements are based on the review of academic literature about the design process, on structured observations of design teaching, and based on personal experiences in design teaching. These elements are generic in the sense that they lay beyond the complex, personal, creative and open-endedness of the design skill: (1) exploring and deciding, or experimenting, (2) guiding theme or intended qualities, (3) domains or aspects, (4) frame of reference or library, (5) urbanism language: text and image

design process
urban and regional design
design education
urbanism

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AESOP

Proceedings of the AESOP annual congress : From Control to Co-Evolution, Utrecht (The Netherlands), 9-12 July, 2014

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