Making Participation Relevant to Design

Harvard GSD

By trying to understand how participation can make design more relevant to society, we can create more socially just cities. This course starts from the premise that it would not be ethical to design cities without creating meaningful conversations with different stakeholders. Our main challenge is to improve the quality and ethics of design work by staying in close contact with the city and its residents.Participation is a way of confronting our preconceptions, revealing our blind spots,…