SUCCESS

Success Project - Oikodrom
Oikodrom, the vienna institute for urban sustainability

Sustainable Users Concepts for China Engaging Scientific Scenarios (SUCCESS)

What to change?
We built and examined in several scenarios how to maintain the highly ecological and socio-cultural level of existing rural structures, and, at the same time, introduce the necessary upgrading of the local living conditions. These results were put at the disposition of the village leaders, the policy-makers of the town development and in the building sector, who were participants in this project.
The whole process of the project will be analysed in an integrated to become  future scenarios of “sustainable pathways”, concentrating on four modules: ecology/ economy /sociocultural patterns / upgrading of the built environment.

SUCCESS develops future scenarios for seven Chinese villages. It describes pathways of the future from the ecological, economic, socio-cultural and architectural point of view. What to maintain and what to change in the villages: SUCCESS answers this question by combining the knowledge of the dwellers of the villages with scientific expertise.

SUCCESS developed future scenarios for seven Chinese villages.  It applied participation models for the village dwellers, thereby enlarging the field of action for the farmers.

SUCCESS has addressed these questions by combining the knowledge of the dwellers in the villages with scientific expertise. From proto-sustainable to contemporary sustainable village systems — this process supports an emergent future for Chinese rural settlements, respecting human needs combined with the needs of nature. What to maintain? The selected Chinese settlements have consistent social systems that allow them to consider community as a basis for a common identity and to organize themselves in a proto-sustainable way. This proto-sustainable socio-economic system has very little waste and many regenerative systems (from the usage of soil and clay for the housing construction to the usage of human manural in the agriculture).

The project examined the hypothesis that this ecological system together with a local exchange economy, solid social coherence, and scenarios for an upgraded life quality, adapted built environment gave the idea of a proto-sustainable performance.

The SUCCESS project determined how these qualities can be maintained.

More about SUCCESS

Funded by: European Commission 

Coordination and project lead:  Oikodrom

Partners:


  • Hua Yu Design Co.Ltd
    University of Shanxi,
  • North China Centre for Cultural Studies
  • CIAD, China
  • Agricultural University
  • Mountain-River-Lake Development Office of Jiangxi Province
  • Yunnan Academy of Social Science
  • University of Vienna Department of East
    Asian and Chinese Studies
  • University of Kassel,Department of Landscape and Urban Planning

Project number: 5th FP ICA4-CT-2002-10007