A Manifesto for Community Driven Processes for Climate Responsive Design

This manifesto therefore captures and explores these community-based processes from the design and construction, transition settlements, and home-grown solutions perspectives. The manifesto highlights best practices and insights of initiatives implemented across the five countries that were represented at the workshop.

Generally, all the case studies presented in this manifesto validate community-based approaches as a strong alternative to overcome issues associated with conventional approaches to architecture that exclude people from the design process.

This manifesto is organised in six sections.

• Section one is the introduction that provides the background and context of this manifesto.
• Section two provides an overview of community-based processes.
• Section three tackles design and construction in the context of engaging community members in the planning and implementing construction projects.
• Section four talks about helping communities to transition to more sustainable and resilient ways of living.
• Section five talks about home-grown solutions, which reflect on locally developed solutions to respond to challenges faced by communities.
• The final section presents case studies collected from across the five countries.