[Futuring the City as a Democratic Experience

In this Project 1 Design Research session, first-year Master in Eco-Social Design students will explore futuring in research by positioning the city as a lived experience and the democratic project at its core. Central to this is the lecture series and book by sociologist Richard Sennett entitled Democracy and Urban Form. Focusing more specifically on the chapter 'Democracy Disabled', we will explore how the design of cities is never neutral. Different historical examples demonstrate how concepts of the city have, at times, constrained and isolated individuals. This will be countered by how city citizens are beginning to reimagine urban life through the lenses of cohabitation, dialogue and coexistence. Bringing this discussion to the core of eco-social design, we will position futuring the city as a conceptual approach through which designers can participate in a project that wishes to reclaim and empower our collective shared experience of the city, rather than fall prey to divisiveness, fragmentation, and ultimately control.

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