From Montage to Collage

Abstract

This study proposes a new model to conceptualize design process with multi-actors, and formulates the organization and representation of these processes by architects. Using montage and collage, this model enables to organize the role of diverse actors in participatory place making. In the model, speculative design and distributed design are combined for the ideation phase. Additionally, the concept of lived space as theorized by Henri Lefebvre help consider placemaking during the design process. On the one hand, this model enables to transform the lived experiences of multiple agents via speculative design. On the other hand, it clarifies the role of architects in this collaborative process as the assembler of montage and mediator of communication. By reshaping certain phases of collective design and inserting combined conceptions, the chapter proposes an unprecedented model. As a result, to envision multiple lived experiences as a meaningful whole and their transformation into visual narratives become possible.