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P3 Approach to Supportive and Affordable Living for Aging-In-Place View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Barry Wylant
In this proposed session, the findings of a research project to investigate the design implications of inserting an affordable, supportive living facility within a typical high-rise condominium development are presented. The project is premised upon a hypothetical P3 (public, private partnership) arrangement, where such a facility could be integrated to offer supportive living for seniors aging-in-place. The project utilized an existing fourteen storey high-rise condo as the basis for the design. Several co-design sessions contributed significant information to the design effort. These included insights from seniors themselves, care providers, health agencies, funding agencies, city representatives, related NGO’s, and building developers. Findings were integrated into an overall design for two floors that could be integrated into such a building. Design efforts focused on understanding the programmatic requirements for the creation of common areas, intended to support both communal and individual activities. Additionally, the design and layout of individual units were developed. These were intended to demonstrate ways the unit could be modularized and adapted to provide for evolving health care and service requirements, adapting as an individual’s personal health circumstances changed. The project illustrates the potential of such developments to integrate affordable and supportive residences for seniors, integrating them into a wider social setting. The project serves as the basis for a future design research project to be undertaken in the coming year.
World Migrants as a Collective before the Response of Space Designers: Taking a Position as Prepared Professionals View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Rolando Gonzalez
Exclusion based on stigma is distinguishable from other forms of marginalization because it depends on social consensus about the targets that tends to be shared among a set of people, and is often accompanied by a social justification or supportive ideology for moral segregation. Today more than ever, it is clear through the immense migratory movements, which the provision of a safe and stable place to live cannot be taken for granted. The current world does not offer the conditions of minimum habitability for millions of people. So, what happens when man and habitat do not coincide due to migrating movements? Most of the immigrating parties are uprooted human beings in search of land, looking for a corner in the planet to live, where everyone is entitled to basic rights and freedom. Immigration right is not an issue of ideology, historical debts or revenge, nor donations or contracts; it is a matter of commitment to the Fundamental Rights of Man to ensure a better global future. Considering immigrants world citizens and faced by this type of circumstances we should wonder, what kind of response do these human beings deserve from the self-named Space Designers? What is the true commitment of Urbanists and Architects, if any, within society? Do they have to take positions like that Doctor Who, forgetting his economic status, turns altruistically to the resolution of others’ pain? Does Culture establish binding commitments to those who are professionally prepared to exercise a job? Should it?
Places of Multiple Trajectories: Participatory Indicators for Dubai’s Sustainable City View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Nermin Dessouky
Many purpose-built sustainable neighborhoods worldwide do not end up reporting their performance due to uncertainties surrounding the usefulness of the current mainstream accreditation systems. Many professionals question the value of the indicators used in such accreditation systems and the extent to which they can be taken at their face value as an indication of a successful sustainable community. This paper asks how the expectations and use values of the professionals and residents involved in developing, designing, managing, and living in a sustainable neighborhood can shape indicators that affect progress towards project goals. The paper looks at The Sustainable City (TSC), a newly developed sustainable neighborhood in Dubai UAE. In-depth go-along interviews were used with different actors in TSC such as the residents, developers, designers and various professionals involved in the development and management of the community. The interview transcripts were coded and used to develop an actor indicator matrix map, positioning preferred evaluation indicators with different actor groups. Since different actors base their evaluation of such projects on their own use values and interests. The research findings indicate that different actors can agree on the importance of a specific indicator but still be driven by different motives. More importantly, the fieldwork revealed that global sustainability metrics might be dismissing many indicators that are vital in local contexts. The paper provides a simple and clear path that any community can undertake to better understand the different use-values of diverse local actors and establish its own indicator system.
Post-consumer Textile Waste Generation and Recycling Behavior in the United States : Florida as a Case Study for Studying Its Socioeconomic and Demographic Determinants View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Sarah Findeisen, Julia De Voy, Elizabeth Congiusta
The amount of post-consumer textile waste generated annually in the United States has increased nearly ten-fold since the 1960s to exceed more than 34 billion pounds in 2018, suggesting that the average American generates more than 100 pounds of textile waste per year. Of the waste generated, 66% was sent to landfills, 19% was incinerated, and only 15% was recycled. When left to decompose in landfills, textile waste decomposes and releases harmful greenhouse gases, including methane. The purpose of our research was to examine whether Americans contribute to the problem of textile waste equally, or if waste generation and recycling behavior differs by socioeconomic and demographic factors. To examine this question, we used publicly available data from 67 counties in Florida from 2014-2019 to assess how textile waste generation and recycling behaviors differed by area-level demographic, socioeconomic, retail, and environmental factors. This study provides preliminary evidence that people living in areas with higher household incomes, more education, and more clothing stores generate significantly more textile waste than people in other areas. In contrast, textile recycling occurred at relatively even rates across counties. Taken together, these findings support the understanding that textile waste represents an issue of environmental injustice; wealthier communities contribute more textile waste to landfills, which are largely located in other places. Multipronged solutions are needed to produce relevant behavior changes, including efforts and policies that seek to reduce textile consumption at the individual and societal level and increase textile recycling and upcycling activities in communities.
The Cycle of Respect: A Tool for Ethical Intercultural Dialogue and Action in Oil Sands Reclamation and Closure Planning View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Christine Daly, Dr. David Lertzman
Planning and design that involves intercultural engagement and communication should be undertaken with a commitment to respect the cultural perspectives, needs and values of all participants. Recently, a recognized international principle for mine reclamation and closure is to engage the local host communities affected by the planning decisions. Currently, there is a lack of planning tools to support this endeavour. We therefore offer a ‘Co-Reclamation’ framework and associated tools collaboratively under development and evaluation with a First Nation and an oil sands company in the Fort McKay Traditional Territory, north-east Alberta, Canada. The landscape outcomes proposed by the framework and tools will be assessed for their acceptability to both the First Nation and company, and the impact it has on their relationship and trust. This presentation reviews an emerging co-created tool, called ‘the Cycle of Respect’, that guides co-researchers’ (i.e. First Nation, industry and academic participants) actions in support of the braiding of Cree, Dene and scientific knowledges and perspectives into planning decisions which affect the host community’s ability to sustainably use their traditional territory after reclamation and closure of oil sands projects are complete. This work demonstrates how an appropriate starting point for Indigenous engagement in planning and design is the establishment of ethical principles guided by traditional Indigenous decision-making processes for intercultural dialogue, knowledge exchange and application to occur.
