Tactical Urbanism 101
Presenter: Jessica Christiansen-Franks – CEO
Urban Designer
Council Officer
Who they are? Social Enterprise. Non-for profit
“Disconnect between designing for people”
“jaded with the industry”
Brisbane City centre – A victim of it’s own success
Brisbane excited to get Melbourne laneways
The difference between top down and bottom up. Council needs to work with community.
It isn’t common for people to go to council meetings. Doesn’t represent what community wants. Whats happens when it goes from top down.
If the people get involved they can have an impact on the look of the city
“Tactical Urbanism”
Master Plan:
- Community Leadership
Community leaders is essential
- Mobile Resources
- Incubate and test ideas – “When design starts to happen”
- Measure success and scale
Master plan takes it away from “The strategic trap’”
A lot can be done if given a time. Example. 45 minutes/48 hours
ASRC, Innovation Hub
Individual communities came up with ideas and all the members came in to vote on a board with pictures
Prototyping – be ready if it doesn’t work
Came up with picture board and feedback board to build a discussion
How do you know if it worked?
Two Evaluations streams
People – The perception of the place. Capture the place story
Place: Function of the place. Observe the behaviours
The perception that the place is unsafe is the same as the place actually unsafe
The legacy impact is crucial in how people think about the project and spaces
Behaviours – Use time-lapse to research places. How many people walk through spaces? At what time? Used before and after graphs. Used graphs to analyse when people are using spaces.
Behaviours
People – The place story – Record local people and their responses “A place story”
Irrelevant feedback
I come for the post office
Positive feedback
The green space is so relaxing
I’ve met 4 new neighbours and I’ve lived in street for 5 years
Research happens in the end. Test the space without knowing for certain what it can be used for. Find people interested in doing it.
Establishing relationships is the hardest part. Uses the same contacts. Emailing and calling isn’t efficient. Need to meet people to form proper relationships. Face to face contact.
Establishing legitimacy – Get people involved and work with them