#4399. Dissonance and diplomacy: coordination of conflicting values in urban co-design

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Abstract:
This article seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussion on values in co-design processes, by introducing concepts from the emerging field of valuation studies. Using the work of David Stark and Ignacio Farias as an entry point to this perspective, it shows how co-design can be understood as a collective process of finding negotiated settlements among conflicting accounts of value, through practices of coordination. This idea is illustrated by a case in which co-design is mobilised as a tool for developing and governing ‘active frontages’. While sharing some of the intuitions of both agonism- and actor-network theory-informed approaches, its front-staging of practices and principles of valuation does nevertheless provide an alternative perspective on co-design. Thus, co-design may be construed as a form of diplomacy, which operates within certain political limits of designerly peacemaking.
Keywords:
active frontages; diplomacy; dissonance; urban design; valuation

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