building quality living environments.
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Project
With a view to building quality living environments, the City of Montréal developed a toolkit that provides digital awareness, planning and decision-support tools for managers, promoters and design and architecture professionals.
The Compass is one of the tools enabling project teams to state a common vision of quality and determine what measures to implement to achieve that quality (the tool is the brainchild of Studio Meilleur Monde).
The Compass contains two exercises:
- Quality Vision helps team members define the quality objectives for their project.
- Quality Operation helps team members determine which strategies and actions to implement to realize the project vision and achieve their quality objectives.
Each exercise is done in two stages:
- An individual exercise, in which each member familiarizes themselves with the notions in the toolkit at their own pace and develops a position.
- A group exercise, in which the team members gather to exchange ideas and make concerted choices for their project.
Mission
The idea of quality is complex and dependent on context. The expectations of the various stakeholders in a project can vary, or even diverge, depending on their respective perceptions and needs. Their expectations can change over time and space and may be expressed ahead of, during and after project implementation. Quality must therefore be appreciated in a collaborative manner, at all stages of a project: from planning through to conceptualization and completion, and over its full life cycle. From this perspective, the Quality Compass helps a project team to develop a vision statement and to implement this vision during all stages of completion.
C O N T A C T
Patrick Marmen
E: designmontreal@montreal.ca
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