A Study on the Second Generation Public Design Toolkit -Focusing on the Seoul Special City Public Design Project -

(Research Background and Purpose) In the era of the 4th industrial revolution, various design methodologies including design thinking are emerging and it is becoming more important to create new ideas than to faithfully following existing norms and knowledge. In the public design filed, design toolkits are also being developed and utilized. However, most of the design toolkits used in the field are learning manual-type toolkits made by overseas companies, or toolkits made by imitating or referring to them. Therefore, they seem to lack in connectivity with public design projects. The purpose of this paper is to identify the current state of use of design toolkits in the public design area, classify them into public design toolkits, analyze the problems of current public design toolkits, and present the prospects and directions of new design toolkit development (Research Method) In this study, toolkits used in the public design projects are classified as public design toolkits, which are divided into two types such as “Manual toolkit” that can be classified by guidelines, checklists, etc. and “Manipulatory toolkits”that can produce various results according to the user's usage. This study presented the direction for the development of 2nd generation public design toolkit that improves the problems of the current public design toolkits by analyzing the status and composition of the classified public design toolkit. (Results) The crime prevention environment design and universal design used Manual toolkits such as guidelines and checklists, but they did not use manipulative toolkits. In case of social problem solving design and urban and facility design, various toolkits with manipulative characteristics we reused, but the forms are not diverse, so it is difficult to say that it is based on constructivism that generates new ideas. In the case of public service design, the manipulative toolkits are relatively actively used, but most of the toolkits are based on a service design methodology rooted in design thinking, so it is difficult to find the singularities or differences of the toolkit itself. (Conclusion) Therefore, for the development of the 2nd generation public design toolkit, it is expected that there are no restrictions on the location due to the use of digital media, or that the user directly changes and supplements the composition of the toolkit. It can have the expandability of the public design toolkit domain, such as applying the design methodology for each type of public design and enabling interactions among users. Furthermore, it is necessary to develop a public design toolkit in the form of grafting with 4th industrial technology.