08B Final Review Comments

Superilla Cuitadora Group Comments:

Integrate three spheres of self care, public care, and community care into final design proposal as defined by data collected. Refine the data collection to key points that back up design interventions, and communicate a clear narrative from beginning to end.

Develop design interventions based on personas, or quantifiable representations of specific user group behaviors rather than on implicit assumptions.

Understand that the concept of feminism in urban care is a political one and making a design decision based solely around feminism can be polarizing.

Further develop the concept of biophilia in design

Revisions (Group):

As a group, we must understand how our site currently supports our target user group from the perspective of care. Clearly defining the connections we made from the data will be important for arguing implemented design intent. Revising maps to include libraries may introduce another important layer for defining care, especially thinking about how the ‘casitas’ will connect within a broader context.

Revision (Personal):

It was noted that we think more about how biophilia may be integrated within our site as a connection with nature. I am interested in formulating interventions based on implementing vegetation and how they may relate to the health and safety, as well as the goals and motivations of users on each scale. Using vegetation to mitigate environmental hazards, improve biodiversity, and increase pollinator species will promote a healthier space for care and relaxation. Designing spaces delineated by vegetation on multiple scales may mean a taller canopy for open areas and smaller vegetation along benches, street buffer, and smaller pathways which create privacy and prospect. In the pollinator garden, thinking about species which will provide color, scent, and bloom for a full yearly cycle; and those which will provide fruits and flowers for birds, bees, and butterflies. Integrating vegetation into the built landscape as well as into established benches, green walls, and ‘casitas’–thinking about vegetative sprawl in both the horizontal and vertical directions.