Abstract Summary
This 90-minute shared learning experience aims to collectively explore how members of projects executed within the urban fabric can more systematically approach their joint value creation process to increase the sustainability, livability, and resilience of cities. The experience is designed around the use of a novel design method that is founded on a transdisciplinary understanding of value, existing design for value methods, and an investigation of value creation processes of 100 transdisciplinary creative consortia that focus on societal missions in urban contexts across Europe. Participants will gather in three groups of multidisciplinary backgrounds. In these groups, participants will develop a strategy for a project scenario that will be provided, using physical tool materials. Each group will engage in a slightly different experience to work with for approximately 50 minutes. In this experience, participants will learn to 1) distinguish between different types, levels, and time horizons of value, 2) identify tensions between values from a comprehensive stakeholder perspective, and 3) develop a value creation strategy based on key values and key value tensions that play a role in their project. After the main activity, the experiences and insights of the three groups will be exchanged in a moderated plenary session. This will provide participants with shared learning on how they can approach joint value creation in their real-life projects, and different perspectives of how existing as well as the proposed new design method can support them. Insights of the session will also be used to further develop the method and accompanying tool in close collaboration with AMS, the Resilient Delta Initiative, and the Delft Design for Values Institute. Participants in this session can include but are not limited to researchers, designers, engineers, developers, policymakers, government employees, entrepreneurs, activists, students, and citizens. The experience is open to participants of any project that addresses a societal mission in an urban context and does not require any experience with or knowledge of design and joint value creation.
