Crossing the line – Tools for urban transformation

Published in ‘scape 16/ 2019 the thematic dossier Crossing the Line – for uncertain times explores how to work with, and benefit from, the inevitable unpredictability of urban transformation, planning and design. The dossier showcases works by practitioners and researchers who seek out good ideas and learn from the experiences of others, no matter where or how that know-how gets produced. Distilling from these efforts a synthetic message, iterative methods, and more specifically an iterative method using design-thinking as a planning tool, has evident positive effect. Trained to identify synergies between things that others differently trained may deem unrelatable, design thinkers add value by projecting novel assemblies of ideas, processes and materials that exist elsewhere in other configurations.

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• Introduction: Cross the line to make the most of uncertainty