Reframing cityLabs: Worldbuilding as situated pedagogy for public design learning

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorYantaç, Asim Evren
dc.contributor.authorMulry, Cathal
dc.contributor.authorLinehan, Denis
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-11T14:09:01Z
dc.date.available2026-09-11T14:09:01Z
dc.date.issued2026-06-08
dc.description.abstractUrban design education increasingly calls for methods that prepare designers to act within complex public systems. This paper reframes the Malmö CityLab, an experimental module within a master’s program on post-industrial cities, as a situated pedagogy for public design learning. Combining worldbuilding, design fiction, and persona storytelling, the CityLab enabled students and stakeholders to collectively speculate on Malmö’s futures across themes of regeneration, migration, and climate transition. Drawing on student artifacts and expert interviews, the study explores how speculative storytelling cultivates political sensitivity, collaborative reflexes, and systemic awareness, key capabilities for acting as public designers. Findings show that worldbuilding supports reflective, plural, and civic learning, positioning CityLabs as infrastructures for collaborative knowledge production and inclusive urban imagination. The paper contributes to emerging discussions on speculative pedagogies and their role in shaping the competencies, sensitivities, and methods required for public design education.en
dc.description.versionPublished Version
dc.format.extent16
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.authororcidYantaç, Asim Evren
dc.identifier.authororcidMulry, Cathal§0009-0005-4427-8797
dc.identifier.authororcidLinehan, Denis§0000-0002-3877-2175
dc.identifier.citationYantaç, A E, Mulry, C & Linehan, D 2026, Reframing cityLabs: Worldbuilding as situated pedagogy for public design learning. in Proceedings of DRS ., 408, Proceedings of DRS, vol. 2026, Design Research Society, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1835
dc.identifier.doi10.21606/drs.2026.1835
dc.identifier.endpage16
dc.identifier.issn2398-3132
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/19241
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherDesign Research Society
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of DRS
dc.relation.ispartofseriesProceedings of DRS
dc.relation.urihttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105046390716
dc.rights© 2026, Design Research Society. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence.
dc.rights.accessrightsopen access
dc.rights.licensenameAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.statusPeer reviewed
dc.subjectCityLabs
dc.subjectCivic imagination
dc.subjectDesign capabilities
dc.subjectDesign fiction
dc.subjectPublic design education
dc.subjectSituated learning
dc.subjectSpeculative pedagogies
dc.subjectWorldbuilding
dc.subject[EngineeringArchitecture]
dc.subject[HumanEnvironment]
dc.titleReframing cityLabs: Worldbuilding as situated pedagogy for public design learningen
dc.typeBook chapter
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Reframing_cityLabs_Worldbuilding_as_situated_pedagogy_for_public.pdf
Size:
956.43 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Published Version
Download
Collections
School of the Human Environment
School of Engineering and Architecture