Pilot Project - Operationalising Tactical Urbanism as Urban Design Process.

<p><strong>The current urban design process in Aotearoa, New Zealand represents a significant challenge to the discipline of Landscape Architecture. As the current long-term planning procedure continues to disempower local communities and result in planning paralysis. The assumption about urban planning remains that it’s an integral socio-political function for that’s existed for millennia, orchestrating spatial organisation, infrastructure provision, and long-term city visions. Though its success, value and efficiency in the past few decades in Aotearoa, New Zealand has caused serious questioning about our reliance on long-term planning.</strong></p><p>This thesis explores how re-imaging the process of urban design through the inclusion of tactical urbanism as urban design process. Could bridge the gap between communities, those in power and fill the gaps created by long-term planning failures. While seeking to understand the potential involvement of Landscape Architects in this alternative design method. Situating the research in Ōtautahi, Christchurch this design-led research investigates tactical urbanism as urban design process, through detailed analysis of an urban landscape. Community participation and a tactical urbanism design intervention to test ideas and collect data to inform permanent future changes.</p><p>With the intention to understand tactical urbanism’s potential to develop localised design and work as urban design process to combat planning paralysis. Contributing to the discourse of Landscape Architecture by offering a design process that empowers the relationship between the designer and local community. Resulting in an inclusive and vibrant urban space, informed by participatory ideas and design testing to ensure the creation of a space that reflects community values and local context.</p>