Outdoor Collaborative and Creative Space Renewal in a Smart City

Rossella Maspoli

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/aef.11.27

Abstract

The paper analyzes the urban transformation and the development of criteria for the conception and design of outdoor urban space, in the smart city context. In the regeneration of peripheral historical and postindustrial neighborhoods, interactive storytelling and cultural mediation forcollaborative placemakingof public sites can generate not only art and culture - in accordance with the enhancement of historical memory and to the rediscovery of local identity - but also opportunities for redevelopment. The research evaluates case studies and explores the potential of innovative micro-community aggregation through the social media interaction, the analysis of use and performance requirements for public space and the experimentation offrom the bottomconstruction of new services and equipment through an interdisciplinary collaborative network. The network promises constituted by citizens, community facilitators, professional experts, young in training creative and local artisan entrepreneurs. The collaborative placemaking focuses on the design and construction of eco-friendly and recycling equipment and on the sharing services for the use of marginal outdoor spaces and the re-use of abandoned spaces on the ground floor of buildings. The plan of operations research is to establish acreative supply chain, from the development of a web platform for sharing spatial data and a "map of the community" to the construction of hybrid places - real and digital - through processes of traditional handcrafts such as digital fabrication, to improve the quality of living, the leisure and the health.

Highlights

The paper analyzes the urban transformation and the development of criteria for the conception and design of outdoor urban space, in the smart city context.In the regeneration of peripheral historical and postindustrial neighborhoods, interactive storytelling and cultural mediation for collaborative placemaking of public sites can generate art and culture - in accordance with the enhancement of historical memory and to the rediscovery of local identity - and opportunities for redevelopment.The research evaluates case studies and explores the potential of innovative micro-community aggregation through the social media interaction, the analysis of use and performance requirements for public space and the experimentation of from the bottom construction of new services and equipment through an interdisciplinary collaborative network
The network promises constituted by citizens, community facilitators, professional experts, young in training creative and local artisan entrepreneurs
The focus is on the potential role of social networks communities and of traditional local community for the re-appropriation of the sense of place, the development of shared activities in the public space re-use and, the active interest in its conservation and management, defending it from vandalism

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Introduction

The research evaluates case studies and explores the potential of innovative micro-community aggregation through the social media interaction, the analysis of use and performance requirements for public space and the experimentation of from the bottom construction of new services and equipment through an interdisciplinary collaborative network. The research is addressing issues of outdoor public space in different perspectives: the role of digital mapping tools for the reconstruction of the meaning and memory of urban communities, the ability of local communities to define their own active demand of public space use, the potential of placemaking for collaborative design of collective space and construction of equipments, the improvement of the quality performances and the sustainability management, the influence of interaction design in a virtual / physical outdoor space [4].

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