1. Co-Solve will identify a community:

 

Take an example of an actual shanty-migrant worker community (shown in the photos here) which has X hundred shanties on municipality sewage treatment plant's encroached land. The open sewage canal seen in the photo is the  source of bathing!  While slums have a formal identity, these 'informal'' settlement do not receive municipality services of water, sewage, electricity, toilets, washroom facilities.  They even face periodic eviction and demolitions.   However, there is readiness among the local stakeholders for transformative solutions that conform to the legal, social, and physical framework.  Co-Solve and its partners have close working relationships with the communities and the decision-makers in the municipalities and funding sources.

 

2. Build a Design Collective 

 

Co-Solve will invite suitable professional, experts, and academic participants who can bring and apply the best-practices in diverse disciplines - for example, shelter designs, land planning and community space design, off-grid energy, water, waste water treatment, community governance, econometry, predictive urban modeling, local regulations, mobility, livelihood, and more.

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Co-Solve will engage the design teams to develop criteria with the community on ground (via on-line or in-person as may be) for the inputs and discussions.  The design teams will then generate various options and scenarios of concepts.  

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2. Build a Designer Collective 

 

Co-Solve will invite various professional, experts, and academic participants who can bring and apply the best-practices in diverse disciplines - for example, shelter designs, land planning and community space design, off-grid energy, water, waste water treatment, community governance, econometry, predictive  modeling, and so on.

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3. Co-Generate Concepts

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Through a series of mix of off-line, on-line, and in-person interactive sessions with the communities the distant or in-person participants will generate design concepts, provide SWOT and cost-benefit analyses of the scenarios, and create guidelines for the next steps.   

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4. Refinement and Implementation

 

While the Design Hackathon will end, the Co-Solve Collective partners on ground will take over and bring the concepts to final reality.  The design teams will be consulted as needed. 

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5. Continuous Improvement

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The design teams and the communities will remain in touch and make improvements as needed.  Close relationships of the design participants from different parts of the world and the communities will be one of the greatest rewards for all.