2014 

2015 

based on "the image of the city" by Kevin Lynch

its elements

 Building and Urban Design in Development

"The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning"Michel Foucault

experience

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Edges are gaps or overlaps between different conditions, stages, states, viewpoints, and actors. They can be interpreted as thresholds and as such could be understood in a positive or negative manner.

"Edges are the linear elements not used or considered as paths by the observer. They are the boundaries between two phases, linear breaks in continuity [...]. Such edges may be barriers, more or less penetrable, which close one region off from another; or they may be seams, lines along which two regions are related and joined together. [...]"

The BUDD scenario highlight the significant edge that theory and practice can generate. This barrier can be more or less visible, and more or less permeable. Find the balance between studies and real life is the challenge that can make the difference in the practitioner role.
A general example may be the participatory processes course. 
Even thought, personal experiences can empathize the participation processes' shortcomings [human reactions and behaviors play the most important roles in that process], the theories and examples  about participation processes are massive.
The desire to try as soon as possible the new knowledge absorbed during the course is one of  the bases in order to engage the BUDDfieldtrip and attempt to fill the edge between the academic and practice phases.

 

BUDD scenario _ EDGES as barriers

PRACTICE* scenario_EDGES as opportunity

Development and edges often grow up side by side.
Even though, a holistic strategy should avoid or at least mitigate this issue, the result can be an unexpected gap or overlap between the planned actions and their consequences.
A positive and conscious reading of these edges can lead to significant, and essential agency and policy. For instance, it is important to have participatory negotiations, in order to achieve a collective vision that take into account consequences that particular and underestimate actions can cause. [For instance, the legitimation of an informal situation, can be an input for a massive gentrification or speculation]. 

EDGES types

theoretical          practical

ethic                         moral

communication [language] 

influential factors:

other edges:

negotiation            compromise

frame&reframe     flexibility 

BUDD

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Designed, created and produced by Deborah Navarra 2015