The process of value setting through co-design: the case of La Borda, Barcelona

Sara Lia Brysch ^[1] ; Adrià Garcia i Mateu ^[2] ; Darinka Czischke ^[1]
1. [1] Delft University of Technology
  
  Delft University of Technology
  
  Países Bajos
2. [2] Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
  
  Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
  
  Barcelona, España
Localización: CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts, ISSN 1571-0882, Vol. 20, Nº. 3, 2024, págs. 405-421
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- Against the increasing commodification of housing, a new kind of housing cooperatives has emerged in Catalonia in the last decade. These cooperatives fall within the wider concept of collaborative housing (CH), i.e. they are collectively self-organised projects based on a collaborative design process, or ‘co-design’. In such a process, residents need to adjust their individual expectations and demands in order to reach a collective set of values to realise their housing project. The aim of this paper is to assess how values are set through co-design and translated into a housing project. To do so, we develop an analytical framework to conduct a longitudinal single case-study that traces back the co-design process of the resident-led housing cooperative La Borda, in Barcelona. Our findings shed light on how co-design unfolds and uncover trade-offs carried out to overcome tensions mostly between individual and collective demands and between building costs and quality.