EXAMPLES FROM PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCHES Urban and Regional Studies, KTH Zeinab Noureddine T ag-Eldeen (PhD) Researcher/Practitioner The School of Architecture and the Built environment The Royal Institute of T echnology KTH, Stockholm Zeinab.tageldeen@abe.kth.se
Contents Examples from practice oriented researches: Ex 1. Cross-cultural development of knowledge – The case of collaborative planning in Egypt (PhD Thesis, 2012) Ex 2. Utilizing urban planning knowledge to develop comprehensive post-crisis recovery approach that goes beyond The emergency’s boundaries (ongoing research, 2013-2015) Ex 3. Participatory Urban Upgrading of Informal Settlement in Cairo – Master Thesis (2003) Conclusion
Example 1. Cross-cultural development of knowledge The Case of Collaborative Planning in Egypt A PhD Thesis where the researcher plays a dual role: Action Researcher and Practitioner Actors Involved • Sida , the research was a component of a large project funded by Sida in Egypt • SIPU International , the implementing agency • GOPP , the General Organisation for Physical Planning • Zifta city , a demonstration project to test and develop a new urban planning approach • KTH , the academic institution that guide and ensure the academic quality of the research • The PhD student Project Outputs • Practical output – Zifta Strategic Plan – Reflections improve the quality of the practical output – Learning by doing opportunity to official planners • Academic output – Zifta case provided the research with the empirical knowledge in line with the overall aim of the research – Elaborated through the use of a series of relevant theories and concepts
Research Design Two lines of inquiry 1. The academic demands on the researcher empirical material was interpreted in light of theory and an appreciation of the Zifta context. 2. The demands of the practitioner , which include the testing and development of planning with collaborative and participatory characteristics to produce a strategic plan for Zifta City
Set a new knowledge into dialogue with local people through interactive planning process Practicing Collaborative Planning in Zifta city Getting on Getting in Getting out Expert Knowledge Getting Started What does Zifta Want? How to get there? Where is Zifta now? Entry Point Approval City Council Governor/GOPP Urban Approval Kick-off Seminar Thematic Asset Kick-off Focus/thematic Seminar Visioning situation Popular Council Workshops Mapping Seminar Worksho groups Workshop Workshop Workshop p Situational Theme 1 Identification analysis Zifta Local/technical Project Consensus Formal Contextual discovers Theme 2 Public knowledge Initiation Building mapping Approval Concretisation itself approval Planning Zifta Asset Theme 3 Governorate Zifta Knowledge transfer Mobilisation Understanding Team Mapping Vision in various directions features of the Theme 4... society Stakeholders Analysis Strategic Plan e h Committee t s g l Local Knowledge e a Zifta n v m Participato s Greening Refurbishi i i Budgeting district - s t e r a i Question Indigeno Knowled v v l l o Zifta ng a Vision a i pilot a l i i ry f t naire a t c t m i n us ge a a n c o e i i i r i o L t t Get al mit L i o tin loc me nt i g co m n n F i i Time Line Jan 06 May 06 Jun Jan May 07 Sept 07 Apr 06 Dec 05 Oct 06 06 07 07 Figure 1 - Learning-oriented planning process developed gradually, to respond to the dynamic of the project’s progress ( Source:Noureddine Tag-Eldeen 2012:67)
Interaction with the real urban conditions – working with people
Transfer of Knowledge in Various Direction An opportunity to joint development of knowledge Getting Started Where is Zifta now? What does Zifta Want? How to get there? A How things are done in the reality? Assets Mapping Zifta Vision Integrate local/Expert knowledge in Zifta Strategic Plan c t i o Milieu of Practice oriented research - Joint Development of Knowledge n Learning R Identify the characteristics of Identification of Building institutional e Visualization techniques; oriented s e the Zifta context; situational Potential focus areas capacity – advantage of Delphi method planning a r definition of lifeworld; for technical surveys planner working at Visioning Process c process h structure of the society and the multiple levels of rules e Questioning of r type of relations between rules, Planning challenges; Zifta is ´ Planners´ role s sources and agency ‘better’ for ‘whom’; reset & development priorities Set conditions to Technical interpretation of E Appreciative Inquiry, x Vision and Knowledge balance existing power Zifta Vision – Incorporate p Zifta Asset mapping Urban situational guide the formulation of e relation; analysis of local knowledge in r analysis ‘SWOT’ thematic development t stakeholders’ matrix technical study s ´ K n o w Interaction with the new planning knowledge – Recognition of social values enables communication, fosters interactions & builds consensus l e d Construction of different types of knowledge that transferred in various directions g e Zifta Context Influences the Practice of Collaborative Planning - Leading to Joint Development of Planning Knowledge Social values shape the Zifta Vision formulated by Transformative dimensions demonstrated through different Local Initiatives communicative its citizens Characteristics of patterns Election of ‘ Zifta Strategic reciprocal Plan Committee’ Building of local trustworthiness among Development priorities institutional capacity citizens are questioned Mutual role between the ‘individual’, ‘family’ & Zifta socio-economic Participants Integrate Financial Capital the society’ Personal roles relation with the flow out of Zifta Important surrounding villages l o c memories; life City council from a experiences l citizens´ views Informal system (economic, housing; welfare K Citizens discovered created sense of Non-efficient formal n services, etc...) filled the gap left by the formal o shared meaning themselves system system. Local assets & associated values guide w l e Zifta to plan for ‘hope out of failure’ d g e Time Line Figure 2 – Social interactions created an opportunity for a joint development of knowledge ( Source: Noureddine Tag-Eldeen 2012:147 )
Academic Guidance of the research process Theory and practice
Example 2. Utilizing urban planning knowledge to develop comprehensive post-crisis recovery approach that goes beyond The emergency’s boundaries Researcher, Practitioner, KTH MSB Urban planner – researcher Urban planner in post-war recovery operations, Lebanon Research proposal ‘ER Field work: Th, Lb & USA Analysis and Developing ideas Shelter recovery advisor, Philippines Analysis and Synthesis A contribution to post-crisis response knowledge
Actors involved and expected outputs • MSB , The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (the Swedish operating agency in humanitarian response activities) • Actors interested in the results: – BCPR / UNDP – IFRC – SIDA – UN Habitat • KTH , aimed to widen the application of knowledge in the society Expected outputs • Practically , to strengthen the growing input of MSB in post-crisis early recovery by introducing an innovative application of early recovery to international humanitarian assistance. • Academically , to examine the potentiality of planning theory and practice for use in integrated and sustainable ER activities • Within this project, two master thesis were carried out by international master students from Lebanon and China.
Knowledge learned from practices Post-war, 2006 Post-Yolanda, 2013 Philippines Lebanon … And from other international experiences Lebanon Philippines Post- Tsunami, 2004 Thailand Post-Katerina, 2005 New Orleans
Lebanon post-conflict recovery project Participatory Process
Philippines - Tacloban Yolanda Impact Tropical storm • Wind speeds of more than 300 km/h • Storm surges of over four meters Impact • A total of 3,065,851 families were affected or 14,121 613 people • A total of 1,127,041 houses across 9 of the 17 regions of the country (DSWD, 2014) Humanitarian operations - Activation of cluster system • Shelter, Restoring livelihoods, Camp management for IDPs, Protection, WASH, etc…
Tacloban North Revise the comprehensive land use plan in light of Yolanda impact and responses UN Habitat / MSB, Sweden Three zones for planning Mid-Tacloban SOUTH TACLOBAN
Consultation processes Recovery of Tacloban City Planners at T acloban Municipality • organized number of workshops to revise the city land use comprehensive plan in light of Yolanda impact (with the support of UN Habitat Planners)
Phuket, Tsunami 2004 Lessons learned Evacuation sign on the beach in Phuket New houses built after Tsunami for fisheries’ in the city – modern life increases the burden on families with limited incomes Fishing involve all the family members Fisheries refused to leave their land New houses rebuilt in flood but are still under the pressure of zone area Tsunami Warning System in tourism business in the city Phuket
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