Project is organized in five main tasks and several milestones marking the progress of the results
Task 1 – Awareness of relevant concepts
Set-up a common ground through the notions of service value and public space system.
RESULTS: collaboratively set the conceptual, practical and institutional framework for the project (disciplinary and crossing viewpoints, preliminary study cases, methodologies, etc.).
Milestone 1 | Roadmap. Clarification of projects’ vocation and main goals specifications (specific issues, goals and components) and the team’s interaction tool agreed.
Task 2 – Gathering references
Collect information and benchmarking (methods, data, case study, user’s opinion, expert’s views, etc.).
RESULTS: Catalogue sort of public space systems case studies in Barcelona and Portugal. Crossing state of the art reflections, case studies practices and knowhow from stakeholders input. Interdisciplinary brief definition of conceptual framework for assessment tools.
Milestone 2 | General survey document. Public Space Services identification and mapping. Briefing’s perspective for tool’s design.
Task 3 – Prototype for Assessment Tools
Tool’s prototype shall be defined through previous knowledge interactive analysis on system representation of discontinuities and integration deficits.
RESULTS: Prototype tools’ construction. It is the result of team’s consensus and project’s central innovation, sustaining basic development, testing and validation.
Milestone 3 | Prototype Tools
Task 4 – Testing and implementing the tools
Ensure the viability and usability of the assessment tools, both as an evaluation method and decision support tool, testing and fine-tuning its final design review
RESULTS: Final set of assessment tools and analysis of public space projects production and post-use process. Experience and knowledge exchange between team members
Milestone 4 | Revised Tools. Testing assessment tools in a selected sort of study cases – services and values – and final design review by team members and advisors
Task 5 – Dissemination
Present the results and produce project output products
RESULTS: Final Conference and publications synthesize results, spreading knowledge, tools and recommendations to external actors and citizens at large
Milestone 5 | Final Publications. Production of output publications Handbook on PS Best Practice and Urban Design Guidelines for design management