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Bas-Belleville, A participation experience
M. Oliveira 1
1 Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal.
At the present time, local initiatives of production and discussion of public space projects are
developed without finding, however, an effective method of including the citizen in the urban
project.
The present dissertation develops a reflection on participatory experiments, the collaborative
work of the architect, the sociologist and the citizen striving for the acknowledgement of
sustained conditions for its practice.
The study of three experimental cases developed in Paris and China allowed to detect
situations in which these initiatives might be developed with success and also difficulties to be
overcome. Now, we look for succinct, economical and effective ways of communicating with
the population for solution of problems in the public space of multicultural residential areas.
In this context, it is relevant the acquisition of a deeper knowledge of reality with the
collaboration of the several disciplines in building up a solution.
The analysis of the different methods of study of the space clarified the working frontiers of
the two disciplines, Architecture and Sociology, essential in every work of interdisciplinary
collaboration. At the same time, practice allowed to experience other means of communication
between architect and collective client, namely between those that permit working with a larger
number of people.
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