Review
"...In this wonderful and unique book Christopher Day sets out to explain the process of Consensus Design, which is used to explore the resonance of a place and show how this can be reflected in built form. As Michelangelo set out to discover what lay beneath the surface of a piece of marble, so Christopher Day helps the inhabitants of a place to discover what 'wants' to be built by 'listening' to the place in which they live.
This gentle response to building, through the distillation of ideas, may lead us closer to the secrets of how past generations managed to build places that touch our hearts and strike a chord in our souls."
- His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, U.K.
From the Foreword
"In this well written and profusely illustrated paperback, Christopher Day describes his Consensus Design process, setting out how to explore the resonance of a place and showing how this can be reflected in built form...
For designers involved in community projects, who are open-minded enough and brave enough to try an alternative to conventional top down design processes, this book is recommended as it will provide a practical guidance every step of the way to what should be a successful, inclusive design."
- Building Engineer
"The book reads as an instruction manual, complete with ideograms sketched by the author throughout the text."
- Journal of Architectural Education, November 2004
Product Description
Consensus Design offers a practical step by step guide to co-design; an increasingly important consideration for architects as they compete for work.
The text moves from identifying the methodology of the process to developing a series of principles and practical steps which illustrate how consensus design can be established.
For easy reference, flow charts show the process of achieving consensus design and include variations for different types of project and different groups of people. It gives clear timings so that agreements can be reached within a specific time frame, and also features a number of case studies to illustrate consensus design principles in practice. Case studies include projects in the UK, US, and Sweden.
Consensus design isn't just a utopian ideal. It's the only meaningful way in which people can be involved in shaping where they live and work. It can have an influence on social stability, crime-reduction, personal health and building longevity, all of which in turn have monetary and environmental cost implications. Its consideration can also greatly help architects win work and commissions.
Day argues that when places are designed by professionals for people, many things obvious to the residents are overlooked. When they are designed by lay people, the design can suffer from the lowest common denominator factor. When places are designed by both it tends to end up in conflict. However, Consensus Design shows that co-design is not doomed to either conflict or banality if it is managed correctly.
* An accessible guide that offers practical advice for implementing consensus design
* Learn how to carry out 'inclusive design' and gain the edge over the competition when bidding for work
* Illustrations of an international range of case studies demonstrate how consensus projects evolve in practice
这本书的阅读体验,对我来说更像是一场智力上的“漫步”,而非“冲刺”。它不是那种读完能立刻让你在周一的会议上引用几句金句的书,它需要的是时间来消化和内化。我发现,书中对“非语言沟通”在共识建立中的作用的探讨非常新颖。作者没有把它放在心理学或情商的范畴内,而是将其视为信息传递的另一种重要“信道”。例如,座位安排、会议室的物理布局,甚至投影仪屏幕的角度,都被分析为影响群体心理和权力动态的关键变量。这让我开始重新审视每一次团队聚会的环境设置。更进一步,作者还巧妙地将一些历史上的决策失误案例穿插其中,用反例来佐证其理论的必要性。这些历史片段虽然简短,但却有力地说明了,缺乏结构化的共识流程,是如何将一场本可以成功的合作导向失败的深渊。这本书的价值在于其细节的丰富性,它要求读者不仅要听作者说了什么,更要思考“为什么作者选择这样说”。
评分阅读过程中,我时常会停下来,反复咀嚼其中关于“过程透明度”的论述。作者用一种近乎宣言式的笔触强调,一个设计过程如果不能被清晰地追溯和理解,那么最终的“共识”也只是一个脆弱的表象。这种对“可解释性”的坚持,在当今快速迭代的行业环境中显得尤为可贵。我注意到,书中对不同文化背景下“共识”的定义差异进行了细致的剖析,这部分内容对我理解跨文化交流中的项目合作极有帮助。例如,作者对比了某种集体主义文化倾向于“和谐优先”的决策模式与西方文化中“辩论至上”的模式,并指出在融合这两种模式时,必须建立一套双方都能接受的“仲裁机制”。这种跨学科的整合能力,让这本书的厚度远远超出了传统的商业管理书籍范畴。它更像是一本关于组织行为学和符号学交叉领域的深度报告。我个人认为,这本书最能触动我的是它对“延迟满足”的倡导——好的共识往往需要时间去沉淀,拒绝为了速度而牺牲质量,这在快节奏的时代是一种挑战,但也是一种必须坚守的原则。
评分这本《共识设计》的封面设计实在是抓人眼球,那种略带粗粝感的纸张纹理,配上简约却充满力量感的字体排版,让人在书店里一眼就能被吸引过去。我拿到手时,首先感受到的是它在实体感上的考究,这似乎预示着内容也不会是那种浮于表面的空谈。 我尤其欣赏作者在开篇部分对于“设计”这一概念的重新解构。它没有陷入技术细节的泥潭,而是将设计置于一个更广阔的社会、哲学语境之下进行探讨。我感觉作者试图构建的是一个理想化的模型,一个所有参与者都能平等发声、最终达成最优解的流程图景。书中对“冲突管理”那一章节的论述尤为精妙,它没有将冲突视为对立面,而是看作创新的催化剂。通过几个精心挑选的案例——虽然我对这些案例本身的背景知识了解不多,但作者的叙事方式非常具有引导性——读者能够清晰地看到,当个体意见被系统地纳入考量时,最终的产出会如何超越任何一个独立个体的想象。这让我对日常工作中的小组讨论和头脑风暴有了一个全新的审视角度。我不再仅仅关注“谁的声音最大”,而是开始思考“信息是如何被整合的”。这种视角上的转变,对我个人而言,是阅读这本书最大的收获之一。这本书提供的不是即插即用的工具包,而是一套思考的底层逻辑,非常扎实。
评分我合上这本书时,脑海中浮现的不是具体的结论,而是一连串不断被重新提问的问题。这本书的伟大之处,或许正在于它的反结论倾向。它似乎在不断地提醒读者,任何声称“已经找到了最终答案”的都是傲慢的。它强调的是一种持续的、动态的“趋近”过程,而非一个静态的终点。书中有一段关于“退出机制”的论述特别让我震撼:一个设计项目如何优雅地结束,以及如何确保那些未能被采纳的意见能够以有尊严的方式被封存或保留,以便未来参考。这触及到了人性中最敏感的部分——被否定的感受。作者提出的解决方案,既体现了对个体贡献的尊重,又维护了整体决策的有效性。这种对“失败的艺术”的探讨,使整本书充满了人文关怀。它教导的不仅仅是如何达成一致,更是如何在维持人际关系的前提下,处理不可避免的分歧。这是一本需要被“使用”而不是仅仅被“阅读”的书籍,它要求读者在现实中不断地拿出来,对照着自己的团队实践进行检验和修正。
评分坦白说,这本书的文字风格偏向于学术研究,初读时会感到一定的门槛。那些关于“结构化对话模型”的图表和公式,如果不是对理论背景有一定积累,可能需要反复研读。然而,一旦跨过了最初的文字迷雾,你会发现其内部逻辑的严谨性令人惊叹。它拒绝一切模糊不清的形容词,力求用最精确的语言来定义每一个概念。我印象最深的是关于“次优解的接受”这一章。作者并没有一味地鼓吹追求完美,而是提出了一个非常现实的观点:在资源和时间受限的情况下,如何界定“足够好”的共识标准,以及如何让所有利益相关者心悦诚服地接受这个次优解。书中通过一个关于城市规划的案例,展示了当核心目标无法同时满足时,系统性地牺牲边缘需求以保全核心价值的决策过程。这种对复杂系统权衡的深入探讨,使得这本书跳出了许多同类书籍“万事皆可优化”的天真论调,增添了许多现实主义的重量。对于那些身处复杂决策链条中的管理者而言,这本书提供了极具操作层面的理论支撑。
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评分Architecture as a social art: a journey,Social Technique with groups .
评分Architecture as a social art: a journey,Social Technique with groups .
评分Architecture as a social art: a journey,Social Technique with groups .
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