PROCESS OF THE PARTICIPATORY ACTION IN BRATISLAVA: URBAN WALK IN THE ZEMNÍK AREA

This participatory action was carried out by the municipality of Bratislava, Urban Planning department, from March 2016 to June 2016. The purpose of the action was to gather the views of experts, municipality, residents, general public, community associations and organizations on the development of the area. This work was carried out by a technical team from the municipality.

1. Designing a participatory process: methods and tools

Figure 1. Ing. Arch. Karin Lexmann, Ing. Arch. Beata Arvayova, Mag. rer. nat. Marek Dinka (Urban Planning department, city of Bratislava)

The aim of this first phase was to identify the groups of stakeholders in the area and analyse and specify the problems, and to organise an urban walk. This was done after a discussion between the municipality and the developer of the project for a national centre of canoeing and rowing in the area of Zemník. As author of the general city master plan, the municipality is responsible for awarding the building permissions. 

Several meetings and consultations took place involving members of the city’s Urban Planning department (Ing. arch. Karin Lexmann, Ing. arch. Beata Arvayova, Ing. arch. Lubica Fenclova, Mag. rer. nat. Marek Dinka) with the purpose of analysing the problems in the area and setting up the targets of the participatory action in agreement with the general master plan of city of Bratislava (Figure 1).