Neighborhood Making 72 Urban Design Guidelines İmaginable Guidelines — Alexis Şanal

Designed by Alexis Şanal ŞANALarc as a guide for everyone to participate in the design process of their own neighborhood Neighborhood Making HEY Imaginable Guidelines Community card deck was published by YEM Publications Neighborhood Making HEY Imaginable Guidelines Community aims to enable everyone to explore their neighborhoods and participate in the design processes of public spaces by addressing 72 urban design concepts with definitions design principles and guidelines This special deck of cards provides an opportunity to imagine explore discuss and share not only for designers and urban planners but also for all the community who want to live in livable loveable and walkable neighborhoods IMAGINE Imagine your city your way Hey Imaginable Guidelines is a card game that will help you discover how cities are designed Why So you can make it better EXPLORE Explore your neighborhood like you haven t done before Find out about methods for looking at the city as a participant as well as a resident DISCUSS Discuss your surroundings with your neighbors One person s trash could be another s treasure You can t find out unless you talk to them SHARE Share your city with everyone You live here but also other people birds cars lots of other stuff too Sharing the city is more fun if everyone respects each other s priorities Neighborhood Making card deck is a card game that allows users to explore how their neighborhood is designed As a design guide as well as a base of knowledge that brings neighborhood residents together to make collective decisions these cards propose a self organized neighborhood design that emphasizes vibrant public life and community engagement The cards prepared with the contributions of more than 100 participants aim to explain concepts such as crosswalks paving bioswales energy harvesting waste management maintenance waiting parklets playgrounds etc to the neighborhood community in a fun and instructive way BENEFITS An urban design tool to discover learn and practice how neighborhoods are designed A reference guide to cultivate a new civic imagination for livable and lovable neighborhoods with actionable ideas CONSIDERATIONS Design guidelines for everyone to imagine a city through the diverse influences that shape decisions in city making With a base of knowledge and ideas to act on give your voice agency in the public participation of your neighborhood Get involved and participate in decisions for the improvements needs and public life of your community IDEAS Make thematic guidelines for place making like streets as public space public square new developments recreational places and the places that make up the public realm Prepared as a dictionary specifically for everyday people to co design with experts design activists NGOs and professionals the deck brought together the analytical practical and creative minds necessary for meaningful and timeless urban design to flourish The card game approach offers each participant a dynamic path to neighborhood design Through writing discussing and reflecting players reorganize the cards according to their own urban design priorities and aspirations creating a new design guideline At the same time the deck of cards as an object and the concept of play represent a social learning dimension that can be used in the workshops