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HAPPITECTURE
(EXPLORING ZEN, OTHERWHERE AND SPACE DESIGN)
Jonathan Edkins
VUSA COLLABORATIVE
HAPPITECTURE
A gathering point for individuals and disciplines to promote collaborative contributions to informed, peoplecentred decision-making in architecture, urban design and planning.
The Happitecture study suggests a method for direct broad public engagement in advance of planning, which
allows for individuals to capture and immediately convey emotions and experiences reflecting the values and
qualities of particular spaces and places at different times of the day and the year. This results in a Space
Happiness Index and an unfiltered record based on multiple user interpretations and opinions. The outcome is
a people-generated planning brief, compiled over time, which replaces a sterile top-down brief based on snap
surveys and generalised assumptions.
With assistance from the Urban Futures Centre, and using the DUT Campus as a laboratory, the Ushahidi
Crowdmaps App was developed to generate HappiMaps. Using this App, people decide individually whether
spaces and places are happy neutral or unhappy, and upload their reports accordingly. Videos and
photos can be included. The accumulated records in the HappiMaps can be drilled down and analysed,
generating clear patterns for unhappy areas requiring attention to improve quality, or finding happy spaces that
need to be protected, replicated and expanded.
This study suggests that Happitecture and HappiMaps could form a starting point for more people-centred
planning and design.
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Happitecture
un-learning
opening
communicating
Happitecture
Enabling a new starting point for the design of spaces;
encouraging people and their romantic and subjective
experiences and ideologies, over
to drive solutions:
a period of time,
Happitecture
Happitecture
collaboration
provocation
facilitation
communication
Happitecture
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five references
INTERACTION
PEOPLE
SUSTAINABILITY
PLACE
VALUE
the
solution to the problem isn't that you abandon rationality but that
you expand the nature of rationality so that its capable of coming
up with a solution Newton invented a new form of reason..
What is needed now is a similar expansion of reason to handle
technological ugliness.
(Pirsig 1999, original 1974)
durban precedent
bulwer park
warwick junction
riverTown
pixels ramblas
otherwhere
Happitecture
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studies
studies
emotional, metaphysical
information over time
people & ancestors
COLLABORATIVE DISCUSSION :
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definequality
what is happiness?
explore metaphysical concepts
happiStudents
alternative methods
changing mindsets
cross-discipline communications
provocation
COLLABORATIVE PLANNING:
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ry
hap
studies
PARTICIPATORY PROCESS :
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opening up participation
role-playing & game-playing
happy-space principles
Community Brief
sum
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ary
happiVent
hap
studies
crowd mapping
gis linked for immediate capture
proactive information
happiMaps
METAPHYSICAL DRIVERS
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relationships to culture
relationships to heritage
understanding and accepting
beliefs accommodated
needs & aspirations made known
Time & heritage
sum
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ary
happiMaps
crowd-mapping
tools
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happiMaps
dut campus
hap
N1
G2
G5
R1
G3
G1
N2
G4
R2
N3
Happitecture
HappiCity
Happitecture
bottom-up
multi-disciplinary
planning
HappiPlanet
hap
https://happitecture2.crowdmap.com
www.happitecture.weebly.com
www.vusacollaborative.com