Design-driven participatory action research as anticipator for a mid-scale, peri-urban farmstead in Mariënburg, Suriname. University of Antwerp
This paper studies how the model of endless concentric expansion of mono-functional allotments around the single services' core of Paramaribo (Suriname), can transform into a multi-centric, diverse, amalgamated socio-economic model of productive communities. Through an iterative participatory process and tracing community leadership and social capital, design research led to an operable civic project. Diverse participation techniques in ...