Designing Shiraz Urban Laboratory with a Social Sustainability Approach

Abstract

Today, urban laboratories introduce a wide range of methodological and conceptual methods to solve urban complexities as an emerging model of urban innovations and a new method in urban management. This project aims to design a Shiraz urban laboratory inspired by object-oriented theory and sectional object diagrams to achieve flexible spaces for experimentation, co-thinking, and co-creation of experts and designers in the design field. According to the nature of the subject and the goals considered, this study is classified in the class of applied and qualitative research. Also, the methodology is considered a descriptive and analytical study simultaneously. At first, through library and internet studies, using the comments of specialists related to urban design and evaluating successful samples in Iran and the world, information on urban laboratories, their objectives, and activities, as well as laboratories' functionality on an absolute scale, were collected. Then the collected studies were categorized based on their value and importance.