New Design Ideas

New Design Ideas

ISSN Print: 2522-4875
ISSN Online: 2524-2148

The Journal New Design Ideas is a peer-reviewed, open-access on-line & print journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design, including industrial design, visual communication design, interface design, animation and game design, architectural design, urban design, and other design related fields. It aims to provide an international forum for the exchange of ideas and findings from researchers across different cultures.  We aim to be a channel for the knowledge exchange between academia and industry by identifing the results are of interest or applicable to practical design.

Abstract

This paper explores a novel application of the Literary Method of Urban Design to predict and shape the future forms of three new “case study” towns set in Wales: Swansea, Gilfach Goch and Dinas Mawddwy. This method uses literary works to create “design fictions”. These design fictions aim to provoke debate about potential future opportunities for towns and cities and potential future problems for towns and cities. The three novel case studies explored in this paper are variously inspired by Alan Garner’s novel The Owl Service, Richard Llewellyn’s novel How Green Was My Valley and Dylan Thomas’ poem The Force. Each case study invokes a graphic representation - in the form of scenario art - which visually narrates a future shaped by the themes of the respective works: so transforming the town of Dinas Mawddwy into an urban woodland, reimagining the town Gilfach Goch as a post-industrial paradise and harnessing natural forces to create the living city of Swansea. This approach attempts to consider the vagaries of human characters within unpredictable and dynamic ecologies and social structures but which also integrates cultural and aesthetic dimensions into the art and practice of urban design. The emerging scenarios underscore the potential value of considering artistic methods with qualitative narratives and historical insights to achieve a potentially more holistic understanding of future urban developments - at least in the land of legends and stories that is Wales.


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