3. Definition of Conviviality
Conviviality promotes social interaction through public domains,
in a hierarchy of places, devised for personal solace, companionship,
romance, domesticity, “neighborliness,” community and civic life.
Vibrant societies are interactive, socially engaging and offer their
members numerous opportunities for gathering and meeting one
another, which are spaces specific achieved through design.
The hierarchies can be conceptualized as a system of social tiers,
with each tier having a corresponding physical place in the
settlement structure. This includes a place for individual, for
friendship, for householders, for neighborhood, for communities,
and for the city domain.
6. Conviviality… the art and practice of living together
• First, it relates primarily to everyday life and to concrete
relationships and this is a primarily hopeful perspective amidst
many disturbing realities.
• Seeking conviviality is not first and foremost a professional activity
nor is it restricted to the work of pastoral workers, social workers or
other professionals. It relates to everyday living. Furthermore, by
emphasising the ‘life world’ – or rather the ‘life worlds’ of people it
points to those everyday practices that support living together.
• Seeking Conviviality can be related to professional practice where
the form of professional practice is informed by closeness to the
various ‘life worlds’ present in any context. From a diaconal
perspective, of course we prioritise the people and groups who are
vulnerable, excluded or marginalised.
8. Street Weight
The width of the street affect the human behavior where the narrow street
create place for people encounter and focus more on the details on ground
level.
9. Street Weight
In contrast with the large roads for cars which perceive buildings
just as volumetric with no sense of belonging or identity. This
lead indirectly to social dissociation.
Cities for robots so organized, and efficient but dead in feelings.
At the same time a busy street doesn’t mean high conviviality
where the speed of people and the crowdedness doesn’t allow
for them to pose, meet and interact.
10. Street Connection
The directionality of the Street
affect the movement of the
people and creates important
nodes for people intersections
like Piazzas and city squares
15. Building Height
The low building height keep people connected together and the
humanistic scale of building let people feel safer and relaxed in their vision
to walk, in contrast with high raised buildings where people up there are
totally detached from what’s happening on the ground.
16. Street Elements
The elements composing the streets which are missing in a lot
of cities are the parameters that make the street appealing for
people to be present and spend more time there.
18. Street Elements
Urban Installation play great in creating a pleasant
atmosphere for people to gather around it, talk about
it, and sit next to it.
The installation could be so cheap and from recyclable
materials or have a meaningful message for the
neighborhood.
20. City-making is about making spaces of collectivity and
segregation, of inequality and illegality, of mobility and
materiality.
Designs are scored into the city in built and unbuilt patterns.
The city is not only viewed in terms of spatial boundaries and
entitlements, infrastructures, and urban environments. The city
is conceptualized as “densities and distributions of people” as
well as “spatial relations between social groups.”
Urban segregation, is a collective manifestation of individual
behavior and choice. Public spaces are possible solutions to
combat segregation, but also as an arena where segregation
takes place.
21. Designing non-exclusionary urban places requires focusing
on the smaller scale: the spatial, functional, temporal, and
social factors in the urban environment.
Differentiation and neglect of the qualities of urban
environments can result in a downward spiral where social
relations between diverse inhabitants in urban space are
prevented.
In urban space, contacts often remain passive and fleeting
yet they shape people’s conceptions of others and the
surrounding society.
22. Malls and Cafés are a classic example of places for
gatherings among friends in the presence of
strangers. They provide essential social functions and
attractiveness to urban streets.
Commercial Gathering Places:
Cafés and Shopping Centers
23. Activity facilities vary from large public facilities to small local
community centers and open urban parks.
The importance of such activity facilities is highlighted in both
older people’s and young migrant adults’ experiences
A sense of place evolves temporally and is never static.
Public Activity Facilities for
LeisureTime and Communities
24.
25. Attractive functions, such as sports and other leisure
activities, gather people to a place.
The vision of active living rooms underlines the role of
shared activities in forming a basis for meaningful
contacts.
Meaningful activities are visibly located close to
public transport connections and daily routes where
people casually spend time, which increases the
potential for encounters between different people.
Active Living Rooms – design
for non-Exclusionary
Multifunctionality
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28. Micro spaces of conviviality emerge in relaxed,
comfortable, and respectful environments.
Urban life is heavily loaded with affective sensory
irritations which add to the stressfulness of urban space.
In the vision of urban oases, places, are evenly
distributed and developed to increase inclusion in the
city.
Urban Oases – Design for the
Multiplicity of Senses
37. City of Copenhagen
• World renewed cycling facilities
• Pedestrian oriented
• High accessibility
• Character
• Mixed land use
• Active
38. Jan Gehl
• Danish architect and urban design consultant
• Influential in the transformation of Copenhagen
• Best known for the stroget
• stresses the importance of cycling within the communities.
41. Transportation authorities
Danish ministry of transport
The Danish transport authorities
Great Copenhagen authorities
Road directorate
Copenhagen metro
Movia (bus company )
DSB (railway company)
movia
42. Green planning
• Finger plan
• Increase access to green spaces
• Clean harbor to swim in
• Development strategies where each finger is a
metropolitan area focused on a branch of the
Copenhagen S-train.
• Palm of the hand is the central , dense urban area
of Copenhagen
43. Environmental policies
• Reduce CO2 emissions
• Increase amount of green areas and improve access
to them
• Promote walking ,cycling and public transportation.
Climate plan 2025
44. Dam & Farez Area
The urban layout ofTripoli in some parts of the
city like New Dam & Farez area have a negative
impact on human behavior and experience due
to the evident lack and shortage of public outlets
for restfulness, distress and uplifting
atmospheres.
We will focus on Dam & Farez area to detect the
problems of the urban design in these spaces and
finding elements that could enhance the
Conviviality and social life of the people in this
area.
Dam and Farez
45. Street composition
According to the zoning regulations ofTripoli
city more than 80% of the zone is residential –
commercial type composed of vertical
residential buildings with commercial shops on
the ground level repeated all over the streets
which reflect negatively on the Social fabric of
the city.There is an weakness in the street
composition of this area.
Criticism of the Urban Fabric
Dam and Farz Area
47. William Whyte
The small urban spaces
How much do the public spaces in Dam and
Farez and perform in a good way, according
to Whyte’s point of view about pleasant
public spaces?
We go through criticizing the parks in the dam
and farez area and testing their performance
according to the elements of Whyte.
48. • He has observed New York City’s parks, plazas,
and various informal recreational trying to
figure out why some city spaces work for
people while others don’t, what the practical
implications might be about living better, more
joyful lives in our urban environment.
• The area where the street and plaza or open
space meet is key to success or failure.
• Urban parks, Whyte discovered, were an
integral mechanism for stimulating our
interaction with the city.
• Other factors that spur a lively and robust
social interaction include:
a. the intricate interplay of sun, wind, trees, and
water
b. Public art and performance.
c. Sculpture can have strong social effects.
Principles of William WhyteTheory
49. Existing Parks and Green Spaces
Biaa Park for instance which is located in the heart of Dam and Farez is surrounded with a chain of high
residential buildings of 7 to 10 floors that close the sky view in it and make the visitor feel uncomfortable by
seating there because they are monitored by the people living in the overlooked buildings.
50. Public Spaces and Green Areas
There is 3 parks in this area (Biaa Park, Muharam
Park, King Fahd Park). Also there is a fragility in
the infrastructure and the distribution of facilities
there like we have an important big stadium which
is closed also the sidewalks in the street are empty
of any elements that can add value to it to be used
by people like the absence of benches or greenery,
or sculptures that can attract people.
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3
2
4
1- muharam Park
2- King Fahd Park
3- Biaa Park
4- Olympic Stadium
52. As cities struggle to respond in a socially sustainable and
inclusive manner to increasing diversity, an empirically
grounded view of how the spatial fabric in the city could
be molded to prevent segregation of places and promote
conviviality among diverse inhabitants is urgently
needed.
Spatial design builds on the idea that places are not static,
but their qualities vary in time and for different users
based on their previous experiences, differing life
situations and negotiations over the use of space.
Conviviality in relation with other
principles
54. List of References
Whyte, William. (1980). The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces.
https://www.academia.edu/38809877/The_social_life_of_the_small_urban_space
Gehl, Jan. (2010). Cities for people.
https://sites.google.com/site/ug7hk7jugy6h5tg/pdf-download-cities-for-people-ebook-epub-kindle-by-jan-gehl
Ole H. Caspersen, Cecil C. Konijnendijk & Anton S. Olafsson. (2006). Green space planning and land use: An
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