Fourteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices

Abstract

This paper explores a clue to create a spontaneous and sustainable city by enhancing design research strategies with the focus on spatial co-creation and situated creativity. We consider one particular way of design research in an experimental setting. First, with the hypothesis testing approach we analyzed the urban developmental process in a comparison between European and Asian cities. On the basis of these facts, we tried to design the experimental housing as a pilot project. The analysis of our experimental project revealed the difference not only in theoretical research concerning local roles in the co-creation process, but in empirical research concerning local activities with the situated creativity, namely the gap of the relationship between a top down approach and a bottom up approach in architectural design. Secondly, we understood as spatially embedded environments for the co-creation of knowledge and solutions by conducting local experiments through the design workshop where design practices of urban issues can be tested within the local context. Hence, I framed the idea to this result that the knowledge of co‐creation and the practice of situated creativity has been one of the substantial strategies for Sustainable Urban Living. We conclude with a discussion emphasizing social responsibility in sustainable urban cities.