Duration
20h Th, 10h Pr, 20h Proj., 1d FW
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The class "Participatory Design at an urban scale" aims to provide engineering students with all the necessary keys for a thorough understanding of participatory issues, as well as concrete tools for its implementation.
As the participatory imperative is more and more crucial to the process, this class will focus on giving students the main operational keys to design and implement such a process, and will also address the recurrent limitations of post-modernist participatory models.
Questions of recruitment and citizen representativeness, methodological choices, and ethics in implementation will be at the heart of debates led by and with the students. Remote and asynchronous participation (e-participation) will also be studied through recent case studies, with the necessary critical distance.
A set of facilitation tools will be proposed, co-designed and tested through workshops and role plays.
The course will be structured around concrete case studies, both at the urban scale (citizen participation as a strategy for territorial development) and at the building scale (e.g. grouped and participative housing).
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- design a participatory process from A to Z and master its organizational, operational, conceptual and ethical issues;
- build a critical overview of the advantages and limitations of (e-)participation;
- anticipate all the complexities inherent to a participatory process (at the urban or more local level) and regulate their actions as designers/engineers accordingly.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Face-to-face seminars.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
Full English, Face-to-face seminar.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
A portfolio of readings will be suggested.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Out-of-session test(s)
Further information:
Evaluation will be organized on a continuous basis throughout the semester.
Students will be evaluated on:
- their ability to take an active part in a debate, a workshop, a role play;
- their ability to synthesize a critical view and to express it publicly with the help of a written support;
- their ability to interact with various witnesses who will relate their experiences of specific case studies.
Oral presentations and short written reports will thus punctuate the entire semester. More specifically:
- the students will have to analyse (anonymised) interview transcripts twice and debate their content (for 10%+10% of the final mark);
- they will then be asked to present (as a team) the intermediate result of a participatory protocol design (for 20% of the final mark);
- they will be asked to take part in a participatory workshop as participants (for a self-reflective analysis; for 10% of the final score);
- finally, they will have to present the final version of their participatory protocols (for 50% of the final score).
No other in-session evaluations are expected, provided that students have actively participated in the course and to these different steps. In the case of repeated unexcused absences, the supervisors reserve the right to limit access to the evaluation. An individual project will then be proposed to students wishing to validate the credits in the second session.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Catherine Elsen, Professor
catherine.elsen@uliege.be
Clémentine Schelings, Assistant Professor
clementine.schelings@uliege.be
Audrey Mertens, Assistant
Audrey.Mertens@uliege.be