The future visioning exercise enabled participants to see thoroughly how desired spatial plans created by themselves would look like through the lens of disaster risk reduction policies.
We organised the Future Vision workshop with seven community groups who had participated in the Focus Group Discussions having conducted since July in Büyükçekmece case study area. The aims at the visioning exercise with the community are basically to translate their future aspirations into disaster risk oriented future urban environment, to provide guidelines for translation of conceptual visions into qualitative spatial components and participatory design of future land use patterns responding to spatial needs to develop policies.
The researchers have come up with a roadmap to guide the facilitators so that they could moderate the round table activities efficiently and aggregate the accurate outputs out of the discussions.
Each seven table provided with multilayer maps to present the significant information about the planning area. Since the prioritised risk for the case study area is the earthquake, we used earthquake risk and physical vulnerability maps to be able to explain the participants where the risky areas are located and what are the levels of these risk factors on a spatial dimension. We also prepared a settlement catalogue with diverse density attributes to be able to collect information about what their desired urban patterns are.
At the end of the process, we had the opportunity to learn how they rank disaster risks and policies as well as prioritise their assets considering the impact of these risks.