Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Robert A. Fowles
The requirement for citizen participation in sustainable development through Agenda 2 1 demands a redefinition of the familiar hierarchic and oligarchic geography of power. However, for the past twenty five years or so, in some areas of architecture and planning, user participation has been acknowledged as essential to a socially just design and development process, and there are many architects well placed to play a significant role in this realignment of power by utilising their knowledge of participatory design procedures and their skill of holistic comprehension of complex systems. The paper illustrates, Erom the direct experience of the author in three action networks at the local, national and European levels, how architects are synthesising social and ecological criteria when engaging in sustainable development programs. Schools of architecture must also engage with this process so that architects of the future can continue the contributions already made by a few in the discipline and adjust to the changing local and global demands on the profession.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Intl.1995.16
Volume Editors
John K. Edwards
