Citizen Design Science

Citizen Design Science is a participatory design approach that engages citizens through online design tools in the planning process. It can be considered as a symbiosis of traditional participation in urban planning (citizen design) with modern e-participation methods that build a form of citizen science. The symbiosis of these two fields requires design science methods to evaluate crowd-sourced design proposals.

Knowledge elicitation methods as well as geo-spatial statistical analysis are applied for the design proposals submitted to provide relevant inputs for the design decision process.

One of the online design tools that are enabled is the Quick Urban Analysis Kit (qua-kit). This viewer can show 3D objects and allows the user to manipulate the position of the object, and rotate it if necessary. This simple web application enables non-expert designers to modify given geometry layouts according to their individual preferences. The focus is on the configuration of geometries, and not on the building of infrastructure or creating new items.

external page Ideas for Tanjong Pagar is one of studies carried out by the workstream, which serves as a platform for different Citizen Design Science tools to engage with citizens on the redevelopment of the current central container terminal in Singapore.