Strategic Consulting

Expert report on the use of public spaces

Examine the use of public spaces to translate them into programmatic, people- oriented recommendations.

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Your needs

Our team helps you to find the right solutions to design attractive public spaces for their users:

  • Create a "usage report" for public spaces,
  • Analyse visitor numbers and usage habits for a residential complex or a public facility.
  • Support public decision-makers and planners in defining a programme tailored to users' needs.
  • Define the programmatic principles for public spaces in relation to the ground floors in a district.

Our solutions in 5 steps

  1. Understanding: Diagnosis

    Create a usage diagnosis through sociological field studies (observations, questionnaires, qualitative or statistical analyses).

    Analyse a design project oriented to user needs.

    Survey residents, traders and users in a district.

    Identify expectations and needs of the population as well as users/non- users.

    Define the strengths and weaknesses of your project from the users' point of view.
  2. Understanding: future perspective

    Mobilise the usage diagnosis to guide future architectural design decisions or public measures.

    Create different scenarios for the utilisation planning for your public space.

  3. Plan: strategy and vision

    Jointly define target groups for the programme.

    Select the preferred development scenario for programming of the public space (client's choice).

  4. Action: action plan

    Provide user-oriented recommendations (architectural and urban planning recommendations, events, social policy, communication, etc.).

    Localised identification of the "uses" to be planned for the public space.

    Develop a marketing and communication strategy as well as a policy guide oriented to the users and the chosen vision.

  5. Action: implementation

    Take part in competition juries to convey the results of the "usage report".

    Support the co-designing of public space.

Contacts

  • François Yenny

    Head Research & Consulting French-speaking Switzerland

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  • David Schoch

    Head of Research & Consulting German-speaking Switzerland

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  • Marie-Paule Thomas

    Research & Consulting French-speaking Switzerland

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