Creating a community center through participatory design
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2019
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"In recent years an increasing number of community initiatives have emerged, indicating that individuals and communities are willing to take responsibility and ownership for their surroundings and contribute to the solving of societal problems. [...] Despite the increasing number of online communities there is a tendency of young people for more face to face interaction. In addition to the younger generations, it is evident that the ageing population is often isolated and is in need of connection and purpose. Hence the need for physical community centers is not only relevant but is gaining importance. With this increased demand the question arises whether the community centers that have been designed so far are successful. A new approach in concept and design that will respond to the needs of the community and increase ownership and responsibility is required. In this paper I intend to gain insight into the question of what community centers are and how participatory design can be an agent that can help to successfully create them. [...] The main methods of research used are the review of current literature on the topics of community centers and participatory design, the analysis of existing case studies and thereby the deriving and identifying of aspects which are of importance when it comes to the creation of a community center. Finally, the last part of this paper describes how some aspects of the research were put into practice in a design proposal for a community center."