By Tina Rosenberg, The New York Times, October 15, 2019
In 2011, Jorgen Hallstrom, a project manager at Swedish Building Services, was redesigning public housing complexes around Stockholm. The buildings were rundown and bleak, the public spaces uninviting.
Mr. Hallstrom, like any developer, wanted to get residents’ views. But he knew that very few would come to hear about the project, and those that did would struggle to understand the architectural drawings. For the untrained, it’s not obvious how a two-dimensional drawing represents three-dimensional space. And it was likely that the same voices as always would dominate the meeting.
He worried that the result would be a design that the residents wouldn’t use and didn’t value enough to maintain.
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