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Roland Krebs
Stefan Mayr
Carla Cortez
Shila de Morais
Ariela Oliveira
Theresa Koenig
Ricardo Rosão

Abstract

This case study shows the contribution of the World Bank consultancy provided by the architecture and urbanism studio superwien urbanism to the Municipality of Maputo in the rehabilitation of twenty public spaces in irregular settlements of Maputo, Mozambique. The project consists of the rehabilitation of these spaces into multifunctional community spaces and neighbourhoods’ centralities, as well as the rehabilitation of 20 km active mobility pathways to connect pedestrians and cyclists on the city scale. The development of the project was based on a dialog-oriented urban design process and the place-led approach, involving locals in all project phases. From the site selection to the final design, various local stakeholders and specialists had the main role in the project development, including local architects and urbanists, residents of the project area, local leaders and architecture students. In addition, superwien implemented a process to develop, adapt, combine and use various participatory tools in five pilot neighbourhoods, in order to approach the community in a meaningful way and achieve positive results. The findings of these participatory activities were shared with different stakeholders in the Maputo Urban Lab, which also included local architecture students. Within Maputo Urban Lab’s various activities, the local students learned about the different participatory tools and had the opportunity to apply them in participatory workshops in the remaining fifteen neighbourhoods of the project area. Their results were presented to the Municipality of Maputo and the superwien team through a rapid design, where the students could make their own design suggestions for the spaces they visited. Finally, superwien has been developing the final 22 public spaces designs which aim to ensure an inclusive, diverse and accessible approach.


 

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How to Cite
Krebs, R., Mayr, S., Cortez, C., de Morais, S., Oliveira, A., Koenig, T. and Rosão, R. (2022) “Dialog-oriented Urban Design Processes and the Place-led Approach: Upgrading Informal Settlements in Maputo, Mozambique”, The Journal of Public Space, 7(1), pp. 355–368. doi: 10.32891/jps.v7i1.1526.
Section
Non Academic / Case study
Author Biographies

Roland Krebs, Superwien Urbanism ZT

Roland Krebs is an urban planner and designer from Vienna (Austria) who develops strategic action plans for cities to tackle urban growth. Since 1999, he has gained international experience in urban planning and design projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and South Asia, Central and Southeast Europe, and Africa. He studied urban and regional planning at the Vienna University of Technology (TU WIEN) and graduated in strategic management (MBA) at the Universidad de Belgrano (UB) in Argentina, before receiving a postgraduate degree at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona (Spain) in cooperation with Oficina del Historiador de La Habana (Cuba). Roland is a member of the chambers of architects and engineers in Vienna and Berlin and Lead Expert at URBACT, the European Union’s cities program. Roland teaches urban planning and design at the TU WIEN, the University of Art and Design in Linz, and the University of Applied Sciences FH Campus Architecture and Green Buildings in Vienna. He is a co-founder of superwien urbanism and board member of wonderland platform for European architecture.

Stefan Mayr, Superwien Urbanism ZT

Stefan Mayr is an architect with experience in urban design and metropolitan planning. He studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and TU Delft in the Netherlands, and has over twenty years of experience in sustainable urban architecture and landscape architecture. Mayr teaches local planning and urban design at the Vienna University of Technology. He is co-founder of superwien urbanism.

Theresa Koenig, Superwien Urbanism ZT

Theresa Koenig is an Austrian urban planner and currently works as a project manager at superwien. She has studied Economics at the University of Economics of Vienna and Urban and regional planning at the Technical University of Vienna. Further, she has studied in Berlin, Amsterdam and Bogotá at the National University of Colombia, where she researched the effects of informal work, migration and digital platforms on everyday life for her master’s thesis in urban planning. Now she works with the Urban Design Lab on projects in Vienna (Austria), Maputo (Mozambique), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) and Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), focusing on participatory processes, inclusive public space design and strategic planning.

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