Effective participation
What is truly important? And how to approach this?
Design & assessment frameworks
How to translate feelings into design?
Design team completion
How to manage complexity?
Collaboration & communication
How do we all work toward one goal?
Decision-making & financing
How to make good decisions?
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Effective participation
Participation results often raise more questions than answers.
How can one draw clear conclusions from this abundance of opinions? How can the underlying feelings and motives be abstracted and concretized? What is truly important?
Residents and visitors implicitly share much more knowledge than we currently recognize.
- That is why IIDM.CH analyzes existing participation results and creates useful insights for the design and decision-making process.
- In addition, IIDM.CH contributes to ongoing projects to gain a deeper understanding of the wishes and underlying motives of residents and visitors.
- This way, people are not only heard, but also understood.
- Public support, Analysis of participation results, Creating participation content
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Design & assessment frameworks
Residents often ask at participation meetings what will be done with the results.
A valid question, which can be answered when it comes to specific, small-scale issues. But is that possible when residents express a feeling without a clear and applicable measure?
Designers can only effectively translate the wishes of residents and visitors into reality if these wishes also offer scope for action. To this end, concrete measures must be abstracted and verified from the available participation data.
- IIDM.CH has found an effective way to abstract a decision-making framework for design choices from abstract participation data.
- After consultation with residents and visitors, this will be implemented in existing functional specifications and an assessment framework.
- This makes it clear and concrete how input is used to create a design plan.
- Program of requirements, Design choices, Assessment framework, Design specification
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Design team completion
Urban development is largely about functional aspects.
Such as: how many homes will be built, traffic capacity, water storage, or green spaces. Creating places with positive urban significance is the final step in this process. That ambition is therefore under constant pressure.
Programmatic density and financial pressure are not incompatible with a good experience. But because we do not define experience properly in the early stages of a project, we are forced to make investments in later stages to mitigate experience problems.
- That is why IIDM.CH participates in design teams during the early planning phases, in order to contribute experiential aspects and thus set the stage for a high-quality design.
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Multi-disciplinary collaboration & communication
Getting a development team to collaborate effectively is an art in itself.
The task is complex and the objectives can be interpreted in multiple ways. How can you focus the team on the common goal, get them to discuss the right topics, and thus achieve more effective collaboration?
Understanding roles is the first prerequisite for effective collaboration. Who the customer is, how they are served, who and what is needed for this, and what ideas exist in the project environment.
- IIDM.CH guides processes to stimulate internal awareness, communication, and goal setting. When everyone is on the same page, it is easy to work toward a goal.
- Role understanding, Team effectiveness
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Political accountability, decision-making, and financing
Good investment decisions start with a strong argument for why we want to do something.
That is not so easy because it requires addressing motives rather than measures. A good example is the shortage on the housing market. There is political consensus that housing must be built, while the floor space per inhabitant continues to increase. But local residents are not happy about a new neighborhood on the former meadow or an apartment building next door. And they already have a home. A simplistic approach to the question of why will therefore lead to more discussion in the long run.
- IIDM.CH assists governments in formulating the appropriate “why” question. We accomplish this by identifying motives, establishing logic, and connecting with the perceptions of residents, visitors, and decision-makers alike.
- Decision-making, Why, Task definition
