CyberParks – The Interface Between People, Places and Technology New Approaches and Perspectives
This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, empirical studies, and concerns about a phenomenon that is increasingly being in the centre of sciences and strategies – the penetration of digital technologies in the urban space. As the main outcome of the CyberParks Project, this book aims at fostering the understanding about the current and future interactions of the nexus people, public spaces and technology. It addresses a wide range of challenges and multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging phenomena related to the penetration of technology in people’s lifestyles - affecting therefore the whole society, and with this, the production and use of public spaces. Cyberparks coined the term cyberpark to describe the mediated public space, that emerging type of urban spaces where nature and cybertechnologies blend together to generate hybrid experiences and enhance quality of life. This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, empirical studies, and concerns about a phenomenon that is increasingly being in the centre of sciences and strategies – the penetration of digital technologies in the urban space. As the main outcome of the CyberParks Project, this book aims at fostering the understanding about the current and future interactions of the nexus people, public spaces and technology. It addresses a wide range of challenges and multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging phenomena related to the penetration of technology in people’s lifestyles - affecting therefore the whole society, and with this, the production and use of public spaces. Cyberparks coined the term cyberpark to describe the mediated public space, that emerging type of urban spaces where nature and cybertechnologies blend together to generate hybrid experiences and enhance quality of life.
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This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, emp
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2019 Jan 01
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Carlos Smaniotto Costa is a Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner, graduated and PhD degree the University of Hanover, Germany. He is professor of Urban Ecology and Landscape Design at Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon and senior researcher at its Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development. His research activities deal with issues of sustainable urban development strategies for the integration of open spaces and nature conservation in urban context. He has several publications in professional journals in Portuguese, German, English, and Italian. He is the Chair of the Action TU 1306 CyberParks (www.cyberparks-project.eu)
Carlos Smaniotto Costa
Ina Šuklje Erjavec (M.Sc) is graduated (diploma and Master of Science) in Landscape Architecture at the University of Ljubljana. She has a national status of researcher and is an authorized landscape architect and spatial planner with the licence. At the Urban Planning Institute she is senior researcher and a project leader of several projects at the national and international level. She has comprehensive research experience in the theoretical and empirical studies of urban landscape planning and design, as well in developing of urban landscape planning and design guidance and methodologies, and practical issues of urban landscape design and implementation. Among others she was a project leader for Green System development in several cities, “Basic guidelines and rules for the urban green development for Slovenia cities and Northern City park of Ljubljana, and a project partner in GreenKeys, In.Flow.ence and Sha.p.e.s EU projects. She is a Vice-chair of CyberParks project.
Ina Šuklje Erjavec
Dr Kenna primarily works in the field of urban social geography and has projects and specialism on: the management, governance and privatisation of urban public space; smart cities, especially the use of ICT and new technologies in the design and development of public spaces for greater engagement and to improve health/well-being; and social exclusion in cities. Her research programme spans Australian and European cities. Current projects include: CyberParks: Fostering knowledge about the relationship between Information and Communication Technologies and Public Spaces supported by strategies to improve their use and attractiveness. Gating the city: Local urban sustainability and community planning and politics in Ireland (with Denis Linehan, Will Brady and Jonathan Hall). Private Neighbourhoods: An examination of the legal structures governing the development, management and lived experience of residents in master planned residential estates in both Australia (with Deborah Stevenson, Robin Goodman and Kathy Douglas) and Ireland.
Therese Kenna
Michiel de Lange is an Assistant Professor in New Media Studies, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University; co-founder of The Mobile City, a platform for the study of new media and urbanism; and works as a researcher in the field of (mobile) media, urban culture, identity and play. Currently, Michiel is the co-lead of a NWO-funded Smart Culture – Creative Cities project called "Designing for Controversies in Responsible Smart Cities", a collaboration with UTwente and a large consortium of societal partners. Past projects include the NWO KIEM and Creative Industries funded project “The Hackable City”, about the ways digital media shape the future of city making; management committee membership of the EU funded COST Action Cyberparks. In 2010 Michiel completed his PhD dissertation at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (Faculty of Philosophy) called “Moving Circles: mobile media and playful identities”, which concerns the ways in which mobile media technologies shape the construction of personal and cultural identities in urban settings. Michiel was trained as an anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam, and studied Industrial Design and Management for a year at the TU Delft. Michiel studies, writes, gives talks, and organizes events about media technologies in the city.
Michiel de Lange
Gabriela Maksymiuk
Martijn de Waal is AUAS Professor of the research group Play & Civic Media. He has a background in journalism, media studies and practical philosophy. His research focus is on the relation between digital media and public space, with specific interest in civic media and digital placemaking. His PhD thesis The City as Interface. How Digital Media Are Changing the City was published by NAi010 publishers in 2014. He is a co-founder of The Mobile City, a non-profit that since 2007 has organized numerous workshops and events on digital media and urban culture, and also co-founded DeNieuweReporter in 2005, a lead- ing Dutch blog on the future of journalism. Before working at the AUAS he was an assistant profes- sor in media studies at the University of Amster- dam. In 2009 he was a visiting scholar at the MIT Centre for Civic Media. Around the change of the century, he worked as a journalist working for a diverse range of Dutch media (de Volkskrant, VPRO Radio, Emerce) covering technology & society. He was appointed professor of the Play and Civic Media research group in February 2020.
Martijn de Waal
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computer networksdata communication systemsElectronic commerceInformation Technologymobile computingMobile devicesSocial networkingtelecommunication networksDigital TechnologiesDigital ToolsDigitally Enhanced PlacesEthnographic StudiesHybrid PlacesInteractions of People and Placesopen accessPhysical-Digital InterfacesSensor Devices and PlatformsSpatial needsUses and Users of Public SpacesWorld Wide Web
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