LikeLake: Eco-Community Water Engagement Platform
Yujie Wang, Ruoming Fang, and Wendy Ziyue Wu.
Discussed on Chengdu LUXELAKES eco-community’s water environment, exploring how to promote the public awareness of water ecology, engage residents and visitors in water resources preservation, reduce the management cost and improve the willingness to pay, and finally establish a new, sustainable lifestyle through the digital community engagement platform.
Digital Community. Zi Li. Domus China Magazine, Vol N151 (2020), 97-135.
Journal link: https://www.yujie-wang.com/s/Domus-China-N151_Digital-Community_p097135.pdf
Project “LikeLake“ exhibited at A8 Design Center as part of the Chengdu Park City Urban Forum and AD 100 Young in October 2020.
Keywords
Eco-Community, Public Engagement, Water Management, Internet of Nature, Bottom-up Planning
Excerpt
The project focuses on Chengdu LUXELAKES eco-community’s water environment, exploring how to promote the public awareness of water ecology, engage residents and visitors in water resources preservation, reduce the management cost and improve the willingness to pay, and finally establish a new, sustainable life style through the digital community engagement platform. The research-based design proposal is based on big data extraction and surveys and interviews with residents and visitors to support the design and development of LikeLake interactive platform.
Challenge 1. Multi-Usage Conflicting Interests
Water as a shared resource is subject to conflicting uses by different stakeholders. Some of the clashing interests include water’s scenic visual value against its ecological services and its space as a transportation artery against recreation venues. This multi-usage problem has increased the difficulty of water management.
Challenge 2. Long-term Financial Gap for Maintenance
The current water maintenance cost, which amounts to 60 million CNY per year, will no longer be sustained in ten years as the developer withdraws its financial support. How might the Luxelakes community continue to maintain water quality and activities?
Problem Statement
How might we raise the awareness of the water ecosystem, enhance the people-water association, and encourage bottom-up water-sustainable behaviors to the lake, such that to serve the long-term lake management goals?
Solution: LikeLake Eco-Community Water Platform
Likelake is a community engagement platform that aims to promote active participation in sustainable water system management by raising residents’ and visitors’ awareness of the water system in Luxelake and instilling socio-ecological knowledge about the lake through human-nature interaction.
