Proactive visionary thought and participatory action in environmental design

1. proactive visionary thought and participatory action in
environmental design
thomaz yuji baba

2. citizenship RESPONSIBLE
involving & empowering
socialy & environmentally
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3. conservative principles
instead of social justice &
ecological vision

4. designer
client/project
v.s
model
causes
contract law
culture of practice
concerns liability
consequences
no vision making between the parts
client comes with the solution
and NOT with the problem

5. designer
coop with
client/project
model
long term design
collaborative
cooperative
build community
categories
private visionary
public professional
professional without profits
activist university

6. professional w/ profits
volunteers, employees or paid
consultants
private visionary
part time dedication
labor of love
GAS Works Park: designed by Richard Haag
the park incorporates numeroues pieces
of the old plant

8. public professional
generally in public agencies
restriction between vision and
action
Myanmar Community Driven Development Project:
this project aims to address villages to start having
access to services and infrastructure
delivered by the people

10. professional without profit
volunteers, employees or paid
consultants
Architecture for Humanity:
A nonprofit organization with a network
of more than 50.000 professionals willing to
give their time to support communities

12. activist university
center, institute or college
education in favor of the
community
EMAU: a brazilian project held by architecture
students that consists on projected based
on community supported vision
“ What seems missing, we believe, is a sense of commom purpose
connecting the practice of architecture to the most consequential
issues of society
1996 Boyer Report

13. OCUPAÇÃO GUARANI KAIOWÁ: a project developed by social scientists, lawyers, architects and urban
planners, and students of Architecture and Urban Planning in Belo Horizonte - Brazil. It envolved 140 poor
families and the whole community was engaged to develop the ocupation of an unused area in the suburbs
of Contagem, Brazil.