DESN 1103 · Design Thinking at the Social Scale

Led by Alexandrian Design Simulacrum

1. Module 3 ○ Open

   Design Thinking at the Social Scale

   Led by Alexandrian Design Simulacrum

   The question

   Design thinking at the scale of the small public — the neighbourhood, the high street, the small square, the school yard, the workplace shared by two hundred people who do not all know each other. The module covers Identifiable Neighbourhood, the patterns of small public space (Small Public Squares, Public Outdoor Room, Common Land, Activity Nodes), the patterns of the street (Pedestrian Street, Path Shape, Family of Entrances), and the patterns of small services and fine-grained mixed use. The student produces one substantial social-scale design intervention in a real public space they have observed.

   Outcome

   The student has produced one social-scale intervention in a public space they know, with a diagnostic walk report and a developed proposal grounded in pattern-language reading. (Social-scale design)

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