Urban Design research services
What
Urban Design Research is the application of Design Thinking tools, frameworks, and methodologies to help clarify problems and opportunities and generate the most creative and human-centric ways to solve them. This problem solving approach highly prioritizes the target user of the artifact or service produced to make sure the solution is in line with their human needs and desires.
Who
We aim to help municipalities, developers, architecture firms, urban planning firms, non-profits, and other organizations who affect the built environment to fully understand the problems they are solving and opportunities to go after and the people who experience those problems everyday.
Why
We help clients make sure that valuable time and resources are spent solving the real problems through a thorough application of design research techniques like contextual inquiry, ethnographic observation, interviews, surveying, and more. We help communities feel listened to and build accountability into the projects happening around them, while empowering them to express their creativity through co-creative processes. We help create a sense of place and delight visitors and residents of the spaces being built.
How
Studio Chiaravalli will sit down with the client to understand their needs, concerns, and goals and formulate a custom user research plan to deliver a desired output driven by robust user insights. Outputs range from reports with key recommendations, design requirements, feasibility studies, prototypes, low fidelity renders, park programming suggestions, and more. Every form of output will be created in a way that gives clients a direct look into the human needs and wants of their target user population or community, because the insights used will be crafted directly with that target group.
Engaging workshops with client work groups to energize teammates and spur on their creativity in on-going projects. Read more in the Automaker Design Thinking project here.