Complexity Maps

People group:
will start by talking to the allotment holders and the users of the community recreation ground, which hopefully will lead to other people
Insecurity:
will interview people from different actor groups to identify vulnerable users: allotment holders, football players, churchgoers, hotel guests, users of the commuity and recreation ground
mobility group:
can collect a feasibility study for a [...]

First impressions after a 2 hour walk in the park:
-shocked by the drug dealing and needles lying about in the park
-feel bad about the communities on the North Side of the river living in precarious conditions with small children and still offering food
-puzzled  by why it is not turned into a green park yet,; is [...]

Talk given by Ezio Manzini to introduce the whole summer school and give the overall context:
Hypothesis 1
-emerging problems can be solved starting from the local
i.e. empowering local resources
[there is no global solution if you don't start from the local; globalisation ignores the specificity of place, empowering local resources could help face emerging problems; it is [...]

Clients Brief:
The client wants
-a representation of the perception of the place by the people who live there, because they are currently under-represented, from which their needs can be derived.
-a particiative tool that will facilitate talking about planning to those who live in areas subject to transformation
The client notices that
-it is necessary to avoid technical language
-the [...]

QUESTIONS:
Who are the different groups of people who use and/or own this place? What different uses do they make of the space? What completing needs and requiremetns do they have? What are their aims, wishes and desires? Are the concepts of ownership or stakeholders the right way to change the area? How can we visualise [...]

QUESTIONS:
How are the local people engaged with their surroundings? What effect does the environment have? Who uses the river area? Why is it being used? Are there environmental pollutants in the area? How could we measure them? Who holds the data for this sort of thing? Who is resoponsible for dealing with it? What could [...]

QUESTIONS:
How do local people move about in the area and where are they trying to get to? Where do people work? Are people using public transport? With all the planned changes how will this impact their future travel possibilities? Who is responsible for planning these sort of things? How will the people who use the [...]

QUESTIONS:
Who decides the future of this place? What do local people think will happen? How involved are they in the planning processes taking place? What affect will the proposed changes have on the local area? How can we communicate some of the proposals? How can we make the Golf Course proposal physically imaginable in the [...]

QUESTIONS:
What does security or insecurity means in the local context? What are people’s local fears? Is it really about the drug dealing or about jobs or whatever? Who is creating these feelings of security or insecurity? Are the planned developments going to help with this? Are there particular groups being targeted in the local area? [...]

This art project by Alex Clausen is a good example of how one can make issues visible in a specific place. Imagine if all the local places had flag poles in front of them which indicated their ownership or even people’s opinions about the place. How would we relate differently to places? What is it [...]