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Laypeople's Collaborative Immersive Virtual Reality Design Discourse in Neighborhood Design
Shuva Chowdhury1, Marc Aurel Schnabel1
1School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
|January 27, 2021
Summary
This study explores how immersive virtual environments enable public participation in urban design. Laypeople actively contributed to urban form generation, validating a new framework for design communication and engagement.
Area of Science:
- Urban Planning and Design
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Virtual Reality Applications
Background:
- Traditional urban design processes often lack meaningful public participation.
- Immersive virtual environments offer potential for enhanced engagement and co-creation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the effectiveness of an immersive virtual environment for laypeople's participation in urban design ideation.
- To develop and test a design communication framework for active public involvement in shaping urban form.
Main Methods:
- Development of a virtual participatory urban design instrument and engagement workflow.
- Protocol analysis using a coding scheme to examine communication between laypeople and the design instrument.
- Investigation of perceptual affordances of 3D artifacts and verbal conversation in virtual design.
Main Results:
- Laypeople actively participated as designers in the early stages of urban design ideation.
- The developed framework facilitated continuous urban form design by non-experts.
- Protocol analysis confirmed the setup's validity for studying design conversations.
Conclusions:
- Immersive virtual environments can empower laypeople to actively contribute to urban design.
- The study validates a novel approach to design communication and public engagement in urban planning.
- Further research can explore the depth and meaningfulness of virtual design discourse.
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