2024-12-22T05:16:17-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/139379660/monu-23-on-participatory-urbanism-released MAGAZINEONURBANISM 2015-10-20T12:31:00-04:00 >2015-10-24T16:16:01-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/wl/wlprp89mmgqjk2qd.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In order to avoid participation in architecture and urban design becoming merely a politically required token of democratic involvement - a kind of fake participation that does not actually engage the participants in any meaningful way - architects, planners, and designers need to commit themselves and relinquish control, as Jeremy Till claims in an interview with us entitled "Distributing Power". (Bernd Upmeyer, Editor-in-Chief, October 2015)</p></em><br /><br /><p>In order to avoid participation in architecture and urban design becoming merely a politically required token of democratic involvement - a kind of fake participation that does not actually engage the participants in any meaningful way - architects, planners, and designers need to commit themselves and relinquish control, as <em><strong>Jeremy Till </strong></em>claims in an interview with us entitled <strong>"Distributing Power"</strong>. With this new issue of <strong>MONU </strong>on the topic of <strong><em>"Participatory Urbanism"</em></strong> we aim to find out and reassess to what extent individual citizens really can and should become proactive in the production and development of cities and in the shaping of neighbourhoods, and where the limits of such <em><strong>Participatory Urbanism</strong></em> really lie. However, giving up control and power can be tricky, as planning experts are usually sceptical of participation procedures and tend to consider such procedures an interference in their competences. Instead, they tend to reject the possibility of enrichment of urbanist practic...</p>