IS IT A SMART CITY A CREATIVE PLACE?

Emilian Gwiaździński,Dominika Kaczorowska-Spychalska,Luís Moreira Pinto

doi:10.3846/cs.2020.12190

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Abstract

Along this article we share our research in the field of urban creativity, in particular on how smart cities are becoming more and more independent and developing a spirit of sustainable autonomy that somehow creates creative opportunities in terms of memory and cultural identity. Our current article raises the issue of how can smart cities affect the creative process? We believe that creativity becomes a process linked into a digital world and becomes much more interactive. That is why new ways of artistic and digital expression can be welcomed by those who are used to new technologies, which daily influence human activity in the space of the city. In other words, with the use of the existing technology inside the cities and their interconnections with other cities we can conceive creative strategies that will contribute to preserve the memory as well as the cultural and creative identity of a people. Video-mapping is precisely one of those creative strategies, once it will directly interact between the real dimension and the virtual dimension. The use of video-mapping, as an element of covering the facades of buildings, can somehow help to make the streets more dynamic and transform them into other atmospheres. The city becomes part of the third dimension and people are interacting between the real and the virtual. The management of the urban space has been gradually changing and following the technological advance. Mobility and sustainability is one of the key factors in which a smart city has invested the most. Now is the time to invest in a relationship between the city and the people, making it more humane and giving space for creativity.

Highlights

The cities are becoming more and more attractive to people seeking safety, work, stability and some comfort in mobility
Creativity Studies, 2020, 13(2): 460–476 has been revealed as a form of urban cultural expression, namely their buildings and all the urban design which reveals the evolution of the city and the historical past
In the context of perception of smart city, a smart paradigm was often described as it combined such information technology elements as information and communications technologies (ICT) with urban space, houses or even the community

Summary

Introduction

The cities are becoming more and more attractive to people seeking safety, work, stability and some comfort in mobility. There is one resource which, across time, Nowadays cities are a key element in the world of tourism, as they are increasingly attracting visitors from all over the world seeking out other cultures and customs. Architecture emerges as a key element that links tradition and culture, is a kind of reflection of the city itself and people who lives in the city. The use of nanotechnology, surfacing and building materials have emerged capable of solving technical and constructive problems and at the same time addressing some of the issues related to façade surfacing materials. How can the city contribute to influence the cultural creativity of a set of people? How can we be creative? How can the city contribute to influence the cultural creativity of a set of people? How can the city attract more people to a particular place, stimulate commerce and attract tourists?

Literature review

Gwiaździński et al Is it a smart city a creative place?

Smart city: technology versus human

Cultural memory and the use of video mapping technology

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