Open AccessDensity Done Right: Co‐Designing Walkable, Sustainable, and Equitable Communities through Digital and Analog Mediums of Public Engagement
Author(s) -
BUCK BECKY,
SIERRALTA KARLA,
STRAWN BRIAN,
WEINSTEIN ALISA
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ethnographic praxis in industry conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1559-8918
pISSN - 1559-890X
DOI - 10.1111/1559-8918.2019.01256
Subject(s) - community engagement , community design , public engagement , scarcity , outreach , public relations , public participation , downtown , sociology , public housing , framing (construction) , affordable housing , strategist , redevelopment , political science , engineering , business , geography , marketing , civil engineering , archaeology , law , economics , microeconomics
By 2025, Hawai'i needs approximately 65,000, affordable housing units. Geographic location, scarcity of land, astronomic construction costs, and speculative investment have led to an unattainable market. Housing is Hawai'i's most pressing issue. This exhibit shares the “Hawai'i Housing Lab” concept developed by the University of Hawai'i Community Design Center, a public interest design practice led by faculty, researchers, professionals, and students, for the Hawai'i Public Housing Authority, the state's primary housing agency. This project was led by two principal investigators with graduate and undergraduate student researchers, in collaboration with an ethnographer and design strategist, the team at KPF Urban Interface, and Alisson Arieff, design and architecture writer at the New York Times, who assisted with framing the conversation for the general public. Thirty in‐home interviews were conducted at 17 public housing properties on five islands, Kaua'i, O'ahu, Moloka'i, Maui and Hawai'i. The findings that emerged from the analysis of these contextual interviews, together with secondary research, informed the development of a community engagement process, a design framework, three co‐creation tools and a mobile research lab.