Design for Relations: Developing a methodology of mapping and designing in the city as an open, complex system

Athina  Stamatopoulou

doi:10.7577/formakademisk.3379

Design for Relations

Developing a methodology of mapping and designing in the city as an open, complex system

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Athina Stamatopoulou PHD CANDIDATE

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https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.3379

Abstract

The city, composed of heterogeneous relations, is an open complex system, beyond its physicality. Questioning analysis and design, a work-in-progress methodology of a generative mapping negotiating different kinds of design logics is presented. The methodology is composed of (1) data gathering; (2) investigating relations among data; and (3) testing with two cases elicited from Athens Center public space. The focus is on how such a relational-thinking methodology cultivates design logics through designing by analyzing; designing by defining frame(s); designing the program; designing as an interventional strategy in/through interdependencies; designing by intervening with territorial forces; and employing intra-parametric strategies. By enforcing emergence and management of complexities in diverse fields of potential application, the methodology negotiates the limits and the ways of design.

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Systemic urban design, relational design, relational territorialities, relationally generated complexity; design methodology; open method; diagrammatic mapping

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2020-12-17

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Stamatopoulou, A. . (2020). Design for Relations: Developing a methodology of mapping and designing in the city as an open, complex system. FormAkademisk, 13(4), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.3379

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Vol. 13 No. 4 (2020): Relating systems thinking and design VII. Special issue.

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