participatory design

Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures

“I realized that basically the way that cities are being developed is a little broken.” — Thomas Ugo Ermacora, founder, Clear Village Recoded City examines alternative urban design, planning and architecture for the other 90%: namely the practice of participatory placemaking, a burgeoning practice that co-author Thomas Ermacora terms ‘recoding’. In […] more »

Experimentation and Prototyping in Community Building – by Marie James

Experimentation and prototyping, two design practices, can be powerful drivers to build trusting relationships with the local communities Clear Village works with. As we have experienced, building prototypes of the projects and involving the local communities early in the process helps in building meaningful relationships with the members of those […] more »