Uploaded on 2016-10-17 by Andrew McIntyre

Based on this, your task for this week is to describe your own idea for a Citizen Design Science project! We are formulating a citizen design project in Indonesia where people living in slums are fully involved in the design of their infrastructure, houses, financing mechanisms, micro economic and jobs using inputs and best practice models from science and technology. The external experts will provide varying degrees of insight, practice and knowledge, and allow citizens to use their own local technical knowledge and practices to adapt and mould this information in a way that is more usable for them. The combination will have long term impacts on sustainability. More emphasis for citizen participation will be placed on the softer sides of the works – particularly the planning, layout, financing mechanisms – all with insight from elsewhere. Technology such as structures, drainage, water supply etc will be based on best practice technology but with local design and insight. Note that picture is from a similar project in Gansu, PRC