Focusing on the user experience and creative thinking, the belandscape team has been developing an innovative and original approach to landscape and public spaces development called landscape design thinking since the early 2000s.
This new approach is based on the synthesis between analytical and intuitive thinking. The process of creation is inspired by the feedback of the installation’s user made and the real added value revealed by them. The belandscape team interviews stakeholders in order to empathize with them and seeks to establish what users do, think, feel and share.
This approach can be summarized in three key steps:
- Identify a problem and understand its environment
- Find the concept or idea that will solve it
- Design the form this concept will embody
This process is not linear but understood as iterative cycles and spaces that intersect (returning to empathy when making prototypes…). This approach favours collective intelligence in a co-creation logic by alternating the phases of intuition and analysis and gives major importance to field study and full understanding of experiences.
The dimension of temporality is also at the heart of this design process and the many long-lasting or temporary achievements of belandscape bear witness to the detailed responses brought to the expectations of the ever-changing sustainable city.