Hello, this is our first design log entry for digital civics by Harley, Sardar and Ying. In the first workshop, we have met our project partner Julia and found out our main goal. We try to use the digital method to solve the client’s problem. Our main goal is to make the co-design self-built homes become more accessible to people. Improving the current weakness of co-design self-built homes, finding a way to promote their ideas (like workshop/website) and then widening public’s community participation.
Key questions for the sprint
- What do you think of self-built homes?
- What are the strengths and the weaknesses?
- How can we involve the non-expert with the co-design of a self-built home?
Once we grasped our project brief as a group we decided our key stakeholders are members of the public who are planning on constructing a self-build home, our aim is to increase the non-experts involvement within the design process of their home and we will be doing this by using an array of digital methods; the main method will be a web application. This means our main users will be families, couples and anyone who is interested and enquiring about a self-build home. We will be researching and holding interviews with key stakeholders from the local council and authorities in promotion of self-build homes. As we have acknowledged there can’t be any direct help to the public from the council therefore we aim to increase the opportunity for the public to aid in co-designing their own self-build home.
When meeting other representatives in the future. We will look at their existing projects and see what their weakness is and how we can help to improve their projects. We will use the meetings as a guidance within our work, asking relevant questions to enable further research for our group. Once we have completed our scheduled meetings with council members and members of the local authority we will then begin to share ideas on what application we feel is best.