Ample scholarship exists on the topics of aesthetics, beauty, and design as individual fields of study. But how can designers of the built environment – artists, architects, landscape architects, engineers, and planners - access the collective wisdom of human intelligence to integrate aesthetics, beauty, and design if beauty is in the eye of every beholder? If this were the case, then a veritable cacophony of places would bombard the senses and the built environment would be a jarring sight. While this may be the unfortunate reality in many places and with many design strategies, what strategies exist that are in the eyes of many beholders as a collective rather than as individuals? In this interactive workshop, participants will create design strategies for more sustainable and resilient built environments using visualization techniques and pattern-building exercises that can be paradoxically specific to a place and a culture and broad enough to be useful across many cultural contexts. Categories of strategies investigated in this workshop will include the design of streets, buildings, and landscapes. Working in small teams, participants will judge an assortment of environmental images then develop design strategies or patterns based on their interactive assessment of those images. They will also categorize the opportunities and limitations of this visual approach to pattern building, explore how these techniques have been used in design practice, and discuss ways in which this model can be more effectively used to influence the design of built environments.

Authors:
Mark Gillem, University of Oregon, United States

About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Gillem is a Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on sustainable urbanism, the geopolitical impact of urban interventions, and the role of participatory processes in urban design.

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