Mersin City-Lab: Co-creative and participatory design approach for a circular neighbourhood
While environmental, economical and social challenges that the world has been facing recently are increasing dramatically; cities have played critical role in generation many of these problems like negative impacts on environment and overconsumption of resources. Most of the cities today face severe...
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Mehmet Topcu
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| author | Nida Naycı Ekim Tan Hayriye Oya Saf Mehmet Ali Mazmancı Hüdaverdi Arslan Mutlu Yalvaç Mehmet Ali Kurt |
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| description | While environmental, economical and social challenges that the world has been facing recently are increasing dramatically; cities have played critical role in generation many of these problems like negative impacts on environment and overconsumption of resources. Most of the cities today face severe sustainability challenges including sanitation, air pollution, environmental degradation, over population and lack of livability. However, cities may also raise answers to find solutions against many of such complex urban problems, since they are assumed as creative and innovative platforms for social ecosystem of ideas. In this sense, there is increasing interest in ‘City Laboratories’ or ‘Urban Living Labs’, which are established to provide creative experimental platforms with participation of city actors to discuss urban sustainability issues before implementation of deep and structural urban changes for citizens. They provide participatory, co-creative and experimental platforms for self-organizing cities. The aim of this paper is to discuss a collaborative City Laboratory approach -Mersin City Lab- to achieve sustainability principles during urban regeneration process for the selected case-study area located in Mersin. Mersin City Lab focuses on two aspects: Firstly, ‘City Lab’ approach, involves citizens and stakeholders into decision-making process. Secondly, it focuses on urban transformation process with circularity principles including water, mobility, energy, waste management, food and circular economy to achieve sustainable neighborhood development. The paper starts with introduction of ‘city-gaming’ methodology which has been adopted as the main structure of participation of multi-stakeholders. It continues with discussions on stages of the case-study project through implementation of workshops and game sessions by participation of multi stake-holders. Following, the results gathered from overall evaluations of participants’ proposals regarding land-use, mobility and urban water management, local economy, urban development, urban agriculture and food strategies in neighborhood level are discussed. Finally, the paper concludes with impacts of City Labs approach and city-gaming methodology on decision-making process for real urban problems and urban settings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9e244ba4bf024970856d416e77157db32023-03-02T20:24:38ZengMehmet TopcuJournal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning2757-63292022-04-0131012310.47818/DRArch.2022.v3i104188Mersin City-Lab: Co-creative and participatory design approach for a circular neighbourhoodNida Naycı0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7213-2772Ekim Tan1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8384-019XHayriye Oya Saf2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7281-0358Mehmet Ali Mazmancı3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0219-530XHüdaverdi Arslan4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3053-6944Mutlu Yalvaç5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1281-5712Mehmet Ali Kurt6https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7255-2056Mersin University Play the CityMersin UniversityMersin UniversityMersin UniversityMersin UniversityMersin UniversityWhile environmental, economical and social challenges that the world has been facing recently are increasing dramatically; cities have played critical role in generation many of these problems like negative impacts on environment and overconsumption of resources. Most of the cities today face severe sustainability challenges including sanitation, air pollution, environmental degradation, over population and lack of livability. However, cities may also raise answers to find solutions against many of such complex urban problems, since they are assumed as creative and innovative platforms for social ecosystem of ideas. In this sense, there is increasing interest in ‘City Laboratories’ or ‘Urban Living Labs’, which are established to provide creative experimental platforms with participation of city actors to discuss urban sustainability issues before implementation of deep and structural urban changes for citizens. They provide participatory, co-creative and experimental platforms for self-organizing cities. The aim of this paper is to discuss a collaborative City Laboratory approach -Mersin City Lab- to achieve sustainability principles during urban regeneration process for the selected case-study area located in Mersin. Mersin City Lab focuses on two aspects: Firstly, ‘City Lab’ approach, involves citizens and stakeholders into decision-making process. Secondly, it focuses on urban transformation process with circularity principles including water, mobility, energy, waste management, food and circular economy to achieve sustainable neighborhood development. The paper starts with introduction of ‘city-gaming’ methodology which has been adopted as the main structure of participation of multi-stakeholders. It continues with discussions on stages of the case-study project through implementation of workshops and game sessions by participation of multi stake-holders. Following, the results gathered from overall evaluations of participants’ proposals regarding land-use, mobility and urban water management, local economy, urban development, urban agriculture and food strategies in neighborhood level are discussed. Finally, the paper concludes with impacts of City Labs approach and city-gaming methodology on decision-making process for real urban problems and urban settings.https://www.drarch.org/index.php/drarch/article/view/85citylabmersincity-gamingneighbourhood |
| spellingShingle | Nida Naycı Ekim Tan Hayriye Oya Saf Mehmet Ali Mazmancı Hüdaverdi Arslan Mutlu Yalvaç Mehmet Ali Kurt Mersin City-Lab: Co-creative and participatory design approach for a circular neighbourhood Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning citylab mersin city-gaming neighbourhood |
| title | Mersin City-Lab: Co-creative and participatory design approach for a circular neighbourhood |
| title_full | Mersin City-Lab: Co-creative and participatory design approach for a circular neighbourhood |
| title_fullStr | Mersin City-Lab: Co-creative and participatory design approach for a circular neighbourhood |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mersin City-Lab: Co-creative and participatory design approach for a circular neighbourhood |
| title_short | Mersin City-Lab: Co-creative and participatory design approach for a circular neighbourhood |
| title_sort | mersin city lab co creative and participatory design approach for a circular neighbourhood |
| topic | citylab mersin city-gaming neighbourhood |
| url | https://www.drarch.org/index.php/drarch/article/view/85 |
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