NAIROBI TRIP

We as Unit 2 students were privileged enough to go on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya for a week to

I worked with David Spratt for this project and what we focused on were the levels of decision making and control that each specific person, whether a professional or a member of the community. Every person affected by the intervention or design should have a say in the matter but only to a certain extent. David and I disagreed with the approach that the designers took for the railway project. The way that we understood the process of decision making and design of the team was that they went to the member of the community and basically asked each one of them what their dream homes were and what features they wanted, for example a pool. Then they had to go back to the community and explain to them that they could not have specific things in there homes as the budget and space would not allow for that. 

David and I suggested that they should have given the community members specific options that they could have in their dream homes. There needed to be a certain level of control and decision making made at a higher level that would set boundaries for the lower levels of decision making.

Our project demonstrated that at the beginning there needs to be some sort of data collection in order to inform decision making. Then every level of decision making that happens in each level, there needs to be more data collection that is specific to the level at which decisions are being made. When making decisions there is a continuous cycle of influence and data collection across the different hierarchical levels.