Scholars of architecture and urban planning at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and scientific partners of the URBiNAT project are the co-authors of two papers on the theoretical, methodological and conceptual foundations of the URBiNAT project.
From Siza and Erskine to URBiNAT: participatory architectural design and the European social housing co–production.
Reuse Modern landscape: a pedagogical programme on co–creation of inclusive and innovative public spaces
Both papers are published in the Proceedings of DoCoMoMo 2022.
Abstract
Considering the post–1960s reforming context, this article intends to revisit the social housing projects of São Vítor (1975) in Porto, by Álvaro Siza, one of the projects carried out under the SAAL programme (Serviço de Apoio Ambulatório Local – SAAL), and of Byker Wall (1968) in Newcastle, by Ralph Erskine, to understand how the dialogue between technicians (architects and sociologists), the citizens (individuals and associations) and the intuitions that regulated the process was instituted and developed, minding the correlations between them, the debates and resolutions which were experimented and the impact they had on the evolution of both processes.
From São Vítor to Byker Wall the text covers the main stages of these participatory practices and identifies the projects’and recognize how politicians and civic society got involved in these urban scale housing programmes, addressing new forms of co–design and co–governing.
Finally, the text explores how URBiNAT H2020 project (Healthy corridors as drivers of social housing neighbourhoods for the co–creation of social, environmental and marketable NBS, 2018–23) is taking advantage of take the inspirational lessons of both case studies and, following the new UNESCO agenda for “Sustainable Cities and Communities”, is co–developing urban regenerative processes on 7 European cities.
Publication details
Bandeirinha, J. A., Fonseca de Campos, P., Moniz, G. C., Correia, L. M., Leite, V. (2022), From Siza and Erskine to URBiNAT: participatory architectural design and the European social housing co–production, in Carmen Jordá Such, Maite Palomares Figueres, Ana Tostões, Uta Pottgiesse (Eds), Modern Design. Social Commitment and Quality of Life, Procedings of the 17th International docomomo Conference, 6-9 September 2022, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, 974-982
Quiroga, C., Moniz, G. C., Monteiro, A. G. (2022), Reuse Modern landscape:a pedagogical programme on co–creation of inclusive and innovative public spaces, in Carmen Jordá Such, Maite Palomares Figueres, Ana Tostões, Uta Pottgiesse (Eds), Modern Design. Social Commitment and Quality of Life, Procedings of the 17th International docomomo Conference, 6-9 September 2022, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, 1156-1165
