This research aims to create collaborative strategies and operative tools for design
practice, applied
in an urban sustainable mobility scenario. We find that co-creation platforms encourage an active
approach involving the people in the
development process leading to effective and holistic solutions.
Initially we
catalogued tools and collaborative met
hods based on case studies, to identify and
propose
new approaches to various project phases, action modes, creation,
development, testing
and
implementation of proposals.
Through action-research methods we want to validate a toolkit applied in
developing
a bicycle
mobility system in Porto (Portugal). Designers, users and
stakeholders actively collaborated
defining a real
context of action, developing
and implementing
solutions. Started by a bottom-up
approach, bringing together
groups of city cyclists and
sustainable mobility activists, and then the
local
authorities, the project enabled positive and local impact based on a democratic
design
approach.
The replicative potential of this action model is a next challenge to various
application scenarios
