{"id":529,"date":"2022-02-01T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narrativeinfrastructure.org\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2024-11-11T08:49:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T08:49:01","slug":"evidence-based-design-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narrativeinfrastructure.org\/blog\/evidence-based-design-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence-Based Design Practice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmpl-call_to_action-15 boldgrid-section dynamic-gridblock background-parallax\" style=\"background-position: 50% 50%; background-size: cover; background-image: url('https:\/\/www.narrativeinfrastructure.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ixlibrb-0.3.5q80fmjpgcropentropycstinysrgbw1600h900fitcropsc241accfdbafe018b25beb9dfd0509cc.jpg');\" data-image-url=\"https:\/\/www.narrativeinfrastructure.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ixlibrb-0.3.5q80fmjpgcropentropycstinysrgbw1600h900fitcropsc241accfdbafe018b25beb9dfd0509cc.jpg\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row color-neutral-background-color color-neutral-text-contrast bg-background-color\" style=\"padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-1 col-sm-1 col-xs-12\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-2 col-sm-3 col-xs-12 align-column-center\" style=\"padding: 1em 2em;\">\n<h4 class=\"\" style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">Escape Reality<\/h4>\n<p class=\"\"><em>Hubris in the design academy&nbsp;looking for in-roads to the industry.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-9 col-sm-8 col-xs-12 align-column-center color5-border-color\" style=\"padding: 1em 2em; border-left: 5px solid;\">\n<h1 class=\"\">Evidence-Based Design Practice?<\/h1>\n<p class=\"\"><a class=\"btn-color-5 btn btn-pill btn-raised btn-regular\" href=\"#\">Visit KAEBUP EU<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tmpl-media-14 boldgrid-section dynamic-gridblock\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12\">\n<h4 class=\"\">STORYTELLING <em>AS<\/em> DESIGN<\/h4>\n<div class=\"bg-video\" data-imhwpb-draggable=\"true\">\n<div class=\"bg-img-right\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Market Opportunities for Evidence-Based Practices.\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gKLAMNNhPoY?start=7434&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I listened to two hours of research reporting that pushed the notion that we should be employing more evidence-based approaches to our industry design practices (particularly at urban scales).<br \/>\nWhile I understand that the extent of the work-product contracted by the European Union for this research demanded an answer to the potential methods for integration of evidence-based approaches, it glossed over the pertinence of such approaches.<br \/>\nThis drives to the heart of the practice of urban change professionals: Are the conclusions derived from your sample generalizable?<br \/>\nMy co-participants in KAEBUP&#8217;s presentation were of similar minds: we are being asked to disregard post-positive approaches and generative approaches. This feels like a regression to hubristic approaches from which the design industry is struggling to overcome.<br \/>\nAlvaro Valera Sosa&#8217;s response was largely focused on ergonomics, which we don&#8217;t need reminding of. The human body is and has always been a baseline design criteria.<br \/>\nThe Alain Chairadia&#8217;s response was to highlight the role of policy in the built environment, but this is an inverted logic. Policy is a response to narrative. No policy is ever born without someone complaining about something to law makers. All policy is an attempt to codify a set of standards, which is just the end result of relying on a bell-curve. The job of lawmakers is to establish the bell-curve as a hard line between legal and illegal. But this realm is flawed as a rule, as it is reactive, and denies exceptionalism. 99% of all cities are evolved based on minute decisions made over centuries, not polices. You can certainly point to land-use policy as form-giver, but this is hardly the extent of the &#8220;sense of place&#8221;. Saying we cannot know what the micro-response should be is false if we intend to leverage continuity of that local evolution.<br \/>\nAs rightly stated by both the penultimate and the final participants (Saket Sarraf and Tomislav Agustincic): the great leap yet to be made in the realm of evidence-based changes to urban change industry is constructivism, narrative analysis, and storytelling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-532 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.narrativeinfrastructure.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bell_curve_normal_distribution.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.narrativeinfrastructure.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bell_curve_normal_distribution.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.narrativeinfrastructure.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bell_curve_normal_distribution-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.narrativeinfrastructure.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bell_curve_normal_distribution-250x143.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.narrativeinfrastructure.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bell_curve_normal_distribution-550x314.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.narrativeinfrastructure.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bell_curve_normal_distribution-315x180.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.narrativeinfrastructure.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bell_curve_normal_distribution-525x300.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The tyranny of normal distribution as defined by large data sets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bg-blockquote border\"><p>\u201cYet the meaningfulness of everyday relationships is disclosed not in everyday life but in rare deeds, just as the significance of a historical period shows itself only in the few events that illuminate it.\u201d<br \/>\n-Arendt, \u201cThe Human Condition\u201d (p.42)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escape Reality Hubris in the design academy&nbsp;looking for in-roads to the industry. 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