Sammanfattning

The urban conditions of many metropolitan regions in the Global South are marked by growing informal settlements, growing inequalities, and socio-spatial fragmentation. They face alterations of their natural-spatial context imposed by climate change and new hydrological patterns. Knowledge is needed to direct their transformation toward more sustainable futures. Academia plays an important role in this knowledge production process that bridges disciplines and geographies. It ensures links to professional actors, public authorities, and civil society in their respective localities. This chapter introduces the adaptation of a more collaborative, trans-disciplinary, and multi-directional working method called “Beyond Best Practice” that raises research questions around ever-evolving, multi-actor collaborations from a design thinking perspective. These research experiences allowed us to promote an open-ended, co-transfer thematic, and methodological knowledge process by developing and testing ideas in real-world laboratory situations. Its results can be redirected to the Global North, where patterns of informality increasingly characterize hotspots of critical urbanity and, in turn, would benefit from knowledge sourced in the Global South.

Nyckelord

Informal urbanism; Trans-disciplinarity; Collaborative design process; Transferring knowledge; Site specific

Publicerad i

Titel: Informality and the City : Theories, Actions and Interventions
ISBN: 978-3-030-99925-4, eISBN: 978-3-030-99926-1
Utgivare: Springer

SLU författare

• Diedrich, Lisa Babette

  • Institutionen för landskapsarkitektur, planering och förvaltning, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Associerade SLU-program

SLU Urban Futures


UKÄ forskningsämne

Övrig annan humaniora


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99926-1_11

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/121109