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of community and belonging particularly in the aftermath of a natural disaster (see Cuba and Hummon,
1993 [17]).
Every group recognized the importance of the landscape as a visual asset and respected the
common shares spaces, setting boundaries for private and semiprivate areas, allowing them to future
growth. Group (a) went further by deciding to leave a central communal space, in order to future
changes depending on the stage of construction, starting as a workshop where inhabitants might learn
some construction techniques to get their hands involved in a participatory way. Once in the final stages
of the community building, the central space would become an inner courtyard for the social practice
of inhabitants. All proposals have an off‐grid tendency, harvesting renewable energy when possible,
mostly solar (collectors and photovoltaics), and wind. Water was strategically placed at the highest
points of the terrain to allow gravitational distribution into the houses. From the final results, it was
expected to have innovative responses due to the program but also from the task core, centred on mass
housing involving community building in the aftermath of a natural disaster. The latter is speculated
occurred thanks to the involvement of professionals coming from different areas of knowledge, the
shared social response, and the collective aim to tackle inhabitants needs in the aftermath.
2.2 Survey data:
Workshop participants’ perception was coded, surveyed, and evaluated as Collaboration value.
The survey poll (see Appendix A) was handed to every participant, but two, that had to leave early
from the workshop before the end of day five, due to personal reasons. Right after the final group
presentation, participants were surveyed with eight statements, from which the two first were related
to personal data and characterization. Statements from three to six were related with perception
regarding levels of conflict and collaboration value encountered within each group, the level of
willingness to contribute, and the level of self‐involvement with the final response. A scale of, Low –
Medium – High, was used, to collect data from each of the five days of group activities. The final two
statements were related to the degree of satisfaction with the workshop and the willingness to
recommend it, also, to survey if they had any recommendations or comments.
3. Survey Results
3.1 Generated Value and Degree of Conflict.
Following the tendency of the survey result, the perception of subjective conflict, from day one
and two was negligible. Day three and four, on the other hand, showed a high degree of conflict. This
is argued as the result of individual learning from activities such as Function Analysis and Design
development, requiring high levels of autonomy, nevertheless, the levels remained in the 11% of
participants. Furthermore, the degree of value increased by the day, showing a 51% of participants
setting a high value to the whole experience, which had a reduction at the day two, to finally have a
steady increment again from the day three and on, reaching an 84%, to have a small reduction the las
day.
3.2 Relation between variables
Figure 4 compares the four surveyed variables regarding two subgroups from the sample,
engineers and architects – designers. The variables are generated value, degree of conflict, willingness
to contribute, contribution acceptance. Notorious differences can be seen within the two subgroups,
engineers did not perceive high levels of conflict, throughout the whole workshop, whilst an 18% of
architects and designers experienced high levels of conflict at day three and four.
Both subgroups have perceived a generated value, which tends to increase by the day slightly
reducing the trend only on the final day. Nevertheless, architects and designers had valued the
experience with 75% on high generated value, whilst engineers had set it at 100% the same day. In
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