The document discusses a community-based urban agriculture project in Lihu neighborhoods, Wuxi, China. The project aims to use co-design tools to facilitate user participation and promote dialogue among residents in new, temporary communities of migrants with weak community bonds. By developing a shared vision and supporting user capacities through co-design and prototyping, the project seeks to materialize user abilities and experience the garden as a means of communication within the community.

1. DESIS Lab ， Jiangnan University
Lihu
neighborhoods ， Wuxi ， China
Key words: Urban Agriculture ，
Co-design ， Public service
Feel Field— 有点田
Experienced Garden as Communication
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2. Context: China is undergoing intensive economic
and social change in the course of urbanization and
modernization. A large amount of new or temporary
communities appear lived many migrants moving from
difference places. They rarely know each other and
have very weak bond and care little for the community.

3. Project: Community based farming
service , which is bottom-up initiative in order
to facilitate user participation and promote
dialogue among residents by co-design tools.

4. Design role:
Developing shared vision
Supporting and growing the capacities of users(by
co-design)
Materializing the capacities of users(by prototype)