Uploaded on 2020-04-06 by Shu Ting Kelly Tang

There is a Citizen Design Project in urban design and planning from Hong Kong this year. The project is called "Healthy Street Lab 2.0". It is a continued version of the project held in 2018. The project is initiated by the Hong Kong's first community-initiated public service innovation lab. The project collaborated with government agencies (Transport Department) and citizen of the area to co-create prototypes. The lab aims to understand citizens’ street experience, imagine possibilities for a more walkable neighbourhood, and come up with evidence-based suggestions for pedestrian-first street design and policies. The prototypes are then present in the designated site to visualise the ideas, collect feedbacks, and initiate further discussion in the society. Participants of the project collect stories from local residents to understand their needs. They also gather a group of children and elderlies as think tanks, in order to include their sound in the co-create process. This is a very good Citizen Design Science project, by including both practitioner and local residents in the co-create process. Also, through data collection not the figures are collected, but more important is the story-telling process to build up the multi-angle picture. (Fig: http://www.mad.asia/uploads/sociallab/5_healthy_street_lab_2/0AwDOniXVvjP.png)