What is the aim?
The conference + summer school design studio aims to contribute to discuss 3 keyboards:
Community participation and sustainability are fundamental tenets of the HABITAT III New Urban Agenda (Quito, 2016), which provides the groundwork for the policies that will influence the future of our cities. With urban expansion across the world, opportunities for citizens to improve their own urban environment are growing steadily, along with a willingness to participate directly on the decision and on the making of urban space. Increasingly, local initiatives create situations of higher social cohesion that illustrate alternatives in the provision of social infrastructure: they aim to improve the living conditions of residents and effectively test possibilities of urban transformation that stem from community initiatives. Their local expertise enlightens possible forms of collaboration in the co-design of the city, thus drafting a possible vision of the city impacted by such processes. On the ground, designing with community participation targets an approximation of design with the real demands, reflecting on the sustainability of collective space based on the engagement of several stakeholders. As Jane Jacobs contended, cities will have the capacity to provide something for everybody, only because, and only when they are created by everybody.
Ecological urbanism draws from ecology to inspire an urbanism that is more socially inclusive and sensitive to the environment. Mostafavi argues that while climate change, sustainable architecture and green technologies have become increasingly topical issues, concerns regarding the sustainability of the city are rarely addressed. The premise of Ecological Urbanism is that an ecological approach is urgently needed both as a remedial device for the contemporary city and an organizing principle for new cities.
Digital Social Innovation and experiments in participatory sensing. Manuel Castells argues that our current “network society” is a product of the digital revolution and some major sociocultural changes which take multiple forms and involve diverse actors. With existing digital technologies, urban activities can be mapped and visualized in real time. Each citizen becomes a prosumer of data, using and generating information in the course of the daily activities taking place in smart cities. In this context, the following question arises: How can data driven and open design methods lead to a new design practices in our global networked societies?
Community participation and sustainability are fundamental tenets of the HABITAT III New Urban Agenda (Quito, 2016), which provides the groundwork for the policies that will influence the future of our cities. With urban expansion across the world, opportunities for citizens to improve their own urban environment are growing steadily, along with a willingness to participate directly on the decision and on the making of urban space. Increasingly, local initiatives create situations of higher social cohesion that illustrate alternatives in the provision of social infrastructure: they aim to improve the living conditions of residents and effectively test possibilities of urban transformation that stem from community initiatives. Their local expertise enlightens possible forms of collaboration in the co-design of the city, thus drafting a possible vision of the city impacted by such processes. On the ground, designing with community participation targets an approximation of design with the real demands, reflecting on the sustainability of collective space based on the engagement of several stakeholders. As Jane Jacobs contended, cities will have the capacity to provide something for everybody, only because, and only when they are created by everybody.
Ecological urbanism draws from ecology to inspire an urbanism that is more socially inclusive and sensitive to the environment. Mostafavi argues that while climate change, sustainable architecture and green technologies have become increasingly topical issues, concerns regarding the sustainability of the city are rarely addressed. The premise of Ecological Urbanism is that an ecological approach is urgently needed both as a remedial device for the contemporary city and an organizing principle for new cities.
Digital Social Innovation and experiments in participatory sensing. Manuel Castells argues that our current “network society” is a product of the digital revolution and some major sociocultural changes which take multiple forms and involve diverse actors. With existing digital technologies, urban activities can be mapped and visualized in real time. Each citizen becomes a prosumer of data, using and generating information in the course of the daily activities taking place in smart cities. In this context, the following question arises: How can data driven and open design methods lead to a new design practices in our global networked societies?
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