Research Through Design and the Politics of Scale
A Case Study in Brussels Metropolitan Centre, Belgium
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6430437 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean-Philippe De Visscher (0000-0002-7328-8100), Aniss Mezoued (0000-0003-3248-2633) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Commons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1875-0281 • E-ISSN: 1875-0281 |
| Publisher | Ubiquity Press, Ltd. (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5334/ijc.1382 |
| OpenAlex | W4409210807 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
Through an ex-post analysis of the successes and failures of the Brussels Studies Institute-Brussels Centre Observatory (BSI-BCO)—a multidisciplinary, multi-university research platform dedicated to transforming downtown Brussels—this article aims to contribute to the debate on the dilemmas between the risks and benefits of collaborations between urban commoners and local governments (Feinberg et al., 2021; Bianchi et al., 2024; Heidelberg, 2024; Polko, 2024). In particular, it explores how Research through Design—a methodology that emerged in recent decades at the intersection of design thinking, urban design & planning, transition management, participatory governance, and transdisciplinary research, yet has received little attention in commons literature—can serve as a valuable tool for navigating the tensions between seeking institutional support for urban commons and resisting political cooptation when addressing scales that involves multiple levels of stakeholders and governance
Archaeology · Cartography · Geography · Metropolitan area · Political science · Politics · Regional science · Scale (ratio · Sociology · Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research · Participatory Visual Research Methods
Designerly ways of knowing
Evolution of co-management
Research through design in urban and landscape design practice
Vers un retour de la lenteur et des communs
Which morphologies for “inclusion in urbanity”? Exploring practices along the Steenweg
Diversity and Challenges of the Urban Commons
Urban commons and the local state
Commons-Oriented, but Embodied Enough? De-Constructing Knowledge, Experiences, and Institutions in Naples’ Water Commons Project
Rethinking Scale in the Commons by Unsettling Old Assumptions and Asking New Scale Questions
What is “Political” in Commons-Public Partnership? The Italian Cases of Bologna and Naples
Understanding the Governing of Urban Commons
The Incompatibility of the Commons and the Public
A Synthesis of Rational Choice and Critical Urban Commons Debates
Challenges in Expanding the Commonsverse
Design features for social learning in transformative transdisciplinary research
The urban commons
Defending, Reclaiming and Reinventing the Commons
A pragmatist approach to transdisciplinarity in sustainability research
Spaces of dependence, spaces of engagement and the politics of scale, or
What is Social Learning
The Future of the Commons
Community Gardens and Politics of Scale in New York City
Women, Reproduction, and the Commons
The Importance of Social Learning in Restoring the Multifunctionality of Rivers and Floodplains
Methods and procedures of transdisciplinary knowledge integration
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |