Actor-network theory coevolution framework for urban design

The actor-network theory coevolution framework inspires a methodology that gives the urban design researcher and practitioner tools to enable them to join together and go beyond the existing approaches to urban design. Actornetwork theory coevolution describes an ever changing set of relations that can be strategically manipulated in order to resolve the ‘problematisation’ generated by the urban designer in relation to other actants. This formulation of the urban designer and the urban design process frees urban design from being the work of artists, visionaries, or the slaves to societal norms, but instead positions urban design as an actant, equal to all other actants, in the process of defining and changing urban form.