[Participatory Settlement Studies]
Housing shortages in urban spaces represent a crisis potential. Residents of settlements often feel displaced and overlooked in infill development projects and other restructuring of housing. Participatory settlement research aims to explore and establish conditions for harmonious coexistence. It is based on a performative concept of culture: culture emerges through the negotiation process between people. The focus of the research is on the social space, defined here as a relational space that is continuously constituted through the arrangement of living beings and social goods in specific places, and is a product of societal structures and conditions. In performative research, space is understood both as a collective-participatory format for action and as a built production format
Based on the [Performed City] -Methodology
the participatory settlement studies are pursued as a community-driven research approach. The concept of performance implies an active, creative, and dynamic engagement with the environment, highlighting both participation and performance in the shaping of space. The research is structured around
[Three Lines of Action]:
1. [Inner Line of Action]: Grasping and understanding the situation and addressing its challenges.
2. [Outer Line of Action]: Creating and performing a situation that fosters good coexistence and initiating a solution-oriented impulse.
3. [Public Line of Action]: Transparently informing the public in a democratic manner about ongoing processes, including those who have not yet participated, and celebrating a collective sense of togetherness through a Citizen’s Happening.
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