Participatory approaches, variously connoted, are widely recognized and fostered as valid tools for sustainable urban regeneration processes. In this perspective the research investigates the relationship between project of public spaces and digital technologies, the latter are considered in relation to their intrinsic and effective power of participation and transformation. This relation is expressed with a bottom-up approach, that exploits functions of sharing and communicating of information offered by ICT’s (Information and Communication Technologies), to develop operational methodologies that use the “virtual” to reinforce the “real”, able to create and feed incrementally urban, environmental and social quality. That way public spaces bring up as bearers of values of liberty, diversity and spontaneity. They become preferential places for the construction of citizenship and catalysts of the community. This determines a new design attitude, aimed at developing spaces capable of stimulating, channel and welcome citizens’ requests and visions, reacting quickly to the possible modifications generated by contamination and hybridization of new technologies in the physical space. The goal is to understand ongoing changes and probable futures for the project of public spaces; possible transformations, usable technologies and their role and their spatial and social repercussions. This work aims to analyze tools and operational methodologies to identify new possible directions of the urban design, which by implementing physical space with digital and immaterial, increases exponentially its ability to respond to contemporary urban challenges.
Active Citizens And Reactive Spaces: How Urban Design Changes With Digital Technologies
Andrea Manca
2018-01-01
Abstract
Participatory approaches, variously connoted, are widely recognized and fostered as valid tools for sustainable urban regeneration processes. In this perspective the research investigates the relationship between project of public spaces and digital technologies, the latter are considered in relation to their intrinsic and effective power of participation and transformation. This relation is expressed with a bottom-up approach, that exploits functions of sharing and communicating of information offered by ICT’s (Information and Communication Technologies), to develop operational methodologies that use the “virtual” to reinforce the “real”, able to create and feed incrementally urban, environmental and social quality. That way public spaces bring up as bearers of values of liberty, diversity and spontaneity. They become preferential places for the construction of citizenship and catalysts of the community. This determines a new design attitude, aimed at developing spaces capable of stimulating, channel and welcome citizens’ requests and visions, reacting quickly to the possible modifications generated by contamination and hybridization of new technologies in the physical space. The goal is to understand ongoing changes and probable futures for the project of public spaces; possible transformations, usable technologies and their role and their spatial and social repercussions. This work aims to analyze tools and operational methodologies to identify new possible directions of the urban design, which by implementing physical space with digital and immaterial, increases exponentially its ability to respond to contemporary urban challenges.
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