Understanding how a green space is used to make it safer

Client
Bordeaux Métropole
Year
2020

The challenge

Bordeaux Métropole wants to make the Doyen Brus green space safer by relying on real usage rather than assumptions. Akiani runs a user-centred field study, from designing the protocol to the recommendations, to objectify users' perceptions and expectations both by day and by night.

Understanding how a green space is used to make it safer

Project flow

01. Designing the test protocol
02. Meeting the users
03. Presenting the results and a co-design workshop
04. Support and pedagogy

Study detail

Designing the test protocol

Getting to know the subject, its history, the stakeholders and their views

To get the work started, a scientific review of the state of the art in securing public spaces gives us a first level of knowledge about what has already been tested and the positive or negative feedback it produced.

The team then meets various stakeholders to understand the different views depending on their position. The protocol is built on the basis of the state of the art and the first interviews. Finally, hypotheses are formed and objectives are set to address the problem.

Surveying the pedestrian layout to design the test protocol
Building the field-study protocol on site

Meeting the users of the Doyen Brus green space

A field study by day and by night, at busy times and quiet ones

Between passive observations and questionnaires, we collect 71 responses on the perception of and expectations for the space. Thanks to the questionnaire, quantitative data is analysed and given nuance by the qualitative exchanges.

Field study with the users of the Doyen Brus green space
71
Responses gathered from users
13
Recommendations presented

Presenting the results and a co-design workshop

Sharing methodology, analysis and results with the stakeholders

We present 13 recommendations and a benchmark to draw inspiration from existing solutions. Using the recommendations, we prioritise them to address the different points according to their relevance. The aim here is to find suitable solutions while taking everyone’s constraints into account.

Co-design workshop on the layout of the space with the stakeholders
Benchmark of existing layout solutions

Support and pedagogy

Explaining the user-centred approach to the partners

Throughout the project, we support our client in presenting and explaining the user-centred approach set up for this project to the various partners.

The resulting deliverable presents all the recommendations to implement in order to secure the area, given all the stakeholders’ constraints. It supports the exchanges between the parties to define the action plan and the concrete measures that will be taken.

Consolidation of the layout workshop for the Doyen Brus space

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