Co-creation Processes to Rethink Architectural Design

The central theme of JOELHO 15 is urban architecture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a special focus on the way in which a project is revealed as a space for collective engagement.The processes of producing architecture and urban environments have always arisen from transformations brought about by the collective, i.e. by society.The city, moreover, is the space in which these changes are engraved in our collective memory, their origins embedded in cultural, social, economic-financial, and political phenomena, among others.The intense social and artistic movements that emerged from the political struggles of the 1960s spurred many architects to seek new ways to conceive of the public as the ultimate consumers of architecture.Answers were sought to the challenges engendered by the urgent need to house urban populations who were living in precarious conditions; new paradigms for architectural education were being advanced, and the uses of public space in the city became a prominent concern.In response, architects were motivated to explore design practices that involved members of the public in the decision-making process, especially during certain of its stages.Architecture became more deeply embedded in human concerns with the contributions of Giancarlo De Carlo's pilot projects for Siena and Terni, the housing programmes developed by the Portuguese Service of Local