Participatory Design as a Tool for Sustainable Regional Development
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Abstract Globalization changes our world too quick and regions cannot keep up. Copying mechanisms affect crafted products and architecture and create specific signs for each region. Understanding that, we can follow cultural concepts and transform them to fit the current era and sustain local identity within communities. Compared with evolution, community attachment as part of social sustainability has the same self-regulated mechanisms. The adaptation process can be achieved in different ways, but only few are truly sustainable. To restore the sense of community and reconnect local people to their village at a deeper level, the participatory approach was tested. The process and tools well known from urban areas were applied in certain Slovak villages. As compared to participation in cities, in the rural environment, the process is more time-consuming. In theory, this should bring a result that lasts longer than that achieved by standard processes. Methods proposed by us will have several outcomes like networking, open communication and, if successful, can be an inspiration for other villages and activists to adopt the approach. This time-demanding activity can help to support local people and show them how to coordinate themselves in the decision-making process. The bottom-up approach increases self-esteem and by place-making, small public intervention can help with communication with local municipalities. In this process, the designer acts as a facilitator of a multidisciplinary innovation project and must use own creativity to handle many challenges.
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From An introduction to radical participatory design: decolonising participatory design processes (2022) · cites this paper as Ontkóc & Kotradyová 2021
The 'Designer as Facilitator' section says facilitators manage groups and set rules for creative interaction; 'Participative Methods' says they choose the methods used. These passages establish substantial responsibility and influence, but the paper does not say facilitators have too much power. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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- Authors
- Ontkóc, M., & Kotradyová, V.
- Affiliations
- Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (SK)
- Corresponding author
- Ontkóc, Marián
- ORCID
- Kotradyová, Veronika
- Venue
- Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2021-06-01
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 24-30
- ISSN
- 2729-7640 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3175392440
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 0.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Rural development and sustainability
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Sustainable Urban and Rural Development
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Development and Cultural Heritage
- Keywords
- participatory design, sustainable regional development, rural villages, local identity, community attachment, social sustainability, place-making, bottom-up decision-making, multidisciplinary innovation, rural communities, Slovakia
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