scholarly journals Rasa Čepaitienė, Memory Politis in a Multiethnic City: the case of Vilnius

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 164-179
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Relationship

In the article, the concepts that have influenced (and are still influencing) the appreciation, assimilation and usage of the collective memory, evidenced in historic Lithuanian towns, especially Vilnius, are analysed, and some possible solutions to the questions arising are proposed. It is emphasized that the recognition, usage and interpretation of cultural values, accumulated in the public spaces of historic towns, which are, as a rule, multiethnic, multiconfessional and multicultural, is a complex undertaking requiring competence,creativity and responsibility. The relationship between this multipartite problem and the cultural politics of modern Lithuania is examined. Two attitudes, monoperspective (imperial, Soviet, nationalistic) and multi-perspective (postmodern), towards the relationship between ethnic communities and the prevailing culture are distinguished. The clearest cases of public space appropriation/ interpretation which provoked inter-ethnic or intersectional conflicts in recent times are analysed. These are related to the sensitivity of the collective memory, which is linked to the traumas and wrongs of the recent past.

Reconceptualizing the Public Spaces of New Urban Areas in Hanoi: The End or the New of Public-Making?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Minh-Tung Tran ◽  
◽  
Tien-Hau Phan ◽  
Ngoc-Huyen Chu ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Doi Moi ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Neighborhood Level

Public spaces are designed and managed in many different ways. In Hanoi, after the Doi moi policy in 1986, the transfer of the public spaces creation at the neighborhood-level to the private sector has prospered na-ture of public and added a large amount of public space for the city, directly impacting on citizen's daily life, creating a new trend, new concept of public spaces. This article looks forward to understanding the public spaces-making and operating in KDTMs (Khu Do Thi Moi - new urban areas) in Hanoi to answer the question of whether ‘socialization’/privatization of these public spaces will put an end to the urban public or the new means of public-making trend. Based on the comparison and literature review of studies in the world on public spaces privatization with domestic studies to see the differences in the Vietnamese context leading to differences in definitions and roles and the concept of public spaces in KDTMs of Hanoi. Through adducing and analyzing practical cases, the article also mentions the trends, the issues, the ways and the technologies of public-making and public-spaces-making in KDTMs of Hanoi. Win/loss and the relationship of the three most important influential actors in this process (municipality, KDTM owners, inhabitants/citizens) is also considered to reconceptualize the public spaces of KDTMs in Hanoi.

scholarly journals Laboratory Environmental Conditions Influence Patent Inventors’ Creative Self-efficacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Shih-Hao Wang ◽  
Chung-Lin Tsai ◽  
Han-Chao Chang
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Computing Environments ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
Wireless Cloud ◽  
The Relationship

A comfortable experimental environment usually enables stress relief among inventors, allowing them to focus on inventing. However, to facilitate smooth and continuous experimental procedures, the public spaces and computing environments of conventional laboratories are usually replete with heavy instruments and interconnected wires; consequently, inventors have limited space to conduct complex experiments. These public spaces and computing environments negatively affect the creative self-efficacy (CSE) of inventors. Based on CSE theory and modified information layout complexity theory, in this study, 100 inventors who had obtained patents were recruited. The results indicated that a wireless cloud public space and computing environment positively moderated and enhanced the relationship between low layout complexity and inventor CSE; conventional public spaces and computing environments featuring cables negatively moderated and weakened the relationship between high layout complexity and inventor CSE. More than 40% of participants highly supported using one electronic tablet to manipulate multiple instruments. The results also revealed that approximately 64% of participants did not think they were essential in promoting critical mass in the laboratory. This finding was significantly different from the degree centrality of creativity perspective. Critical indicators of inventor CSE were found to be inventors’ decision-making capabilities regarding innovative research directions and their communication skills with supervisors.

scholarly journals Urban Public Space Axis Rector of Green Infrastructure in the Current City of Ecuador

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Marina Perez
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

The current city calls for the reconsideration of a close relationship between gray infrastructure and public spaces, understanding the infrastructure as a set of items, equipment, or services required for the functioning of a country, a City. Ambato, Ecuador, is a current intermediate city, has less than 1% of the urban surface with use of public green spaces, which represents a figure below the 9m2/ hab., recommended by OMS. The aim of this paper was to identify urban public spaces that switches of green infrastructure in the city today, applying a methodology of qualitative studies. With an exploratory descriptive level analysis, in three stages, stage of theoretical foundation product of a review of the existing literature, which is the theoretical support of the relationship gray infrastructure public spaces equal to green infrastructure. Subsequent to this case study, discussed with criteria aimed at green infrastructure and in the public spaces of the study area. Finally, after processing and analysis of the results, we provide conclusions for urban public space as a definition of the green infrastructure of the current city of Latin America; in the latter, the focus is to support this article.

scholarly journals Keterkaitan Desain Ruang Publik Dengan Perilaku Pengunjung Mall Di Yogyakarta Kasus : Ambarrukmo Plaza Dan Galeria Mal

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
Nimas Sekarlangit ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Shopping Centers ◽  
Main Road ◽  
The Public ◽  
Visitor Behavior ◽  
Traditional Markets ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Urban People ◽  
The Relationship

The lifestyle of urban people who prefer shopping in shopping centers rather than traditional markets makes the construction of shopping centers in big cities even bigger. The difference in mall level and the shape of public space offered by the mall are related to visitor behavior. Visitor activities can vary depending on the way they describe the public spaces offered in the mall. This study uses two malls located on Yogyakarta's Adisucipto Road, namely Galeria Mall and Ambarrukmo Plaza. The selection is due to its location on the main road of Yogyakarta. This research aims to study the relationship between the public spaces design and the behavior of visitors at the mall. The method used is descriptive qualitative by recording all activities and designs of public spaces in the mall and analyzing their interrelationships. The results show that Ambarrukmo Plaza and Galeria Mall use a sociopetal space with regulatory spaces that tend to unite individuals to create social interaction. This service is a psychological effect on visitors so that they do not feel alienated in the mall.

Politics of Space and its Shadows

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongsei Kim ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emergent Technologies ◽  
The Relationship

This paper examines what the public, architects, urban designers, and city officials can learn about significant public spaces from emergent technologies and data generated from growing social media. Interrogating this analytical method aids us to recognize social media’s potentials, such as gaining a deeper understanding of the relationship between how public spaces are “represented” and how they are “physically experienced” through the means of technology. This investigation combines emerging image recognizing algorithms— Semantic Segmentation—with location-tagged images from Instagram to investigate the newly opened Seoullo 7017 walkway in Seoul. It argues that we should recognize these newly generated “big data” as a form of “collective intelligence” that can stimulate proactive engagement with our everyday interactions with public space. Equally, the findings of this investigation reveal to our society how to cautiously engage these “collective intelligence” with counterbalancing values.

scholarly journals Urban mobility and public space. A challenge for the sustainable liveable city of the future

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Ravazzoli ◽  
Gian Paolo Torricelli
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sustainability Performance ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Public space and mobility are two challenging topics in many contemporary cities. These topics give rise to important questions such as how does the element of public space affect the sustainability of urban mobility in contemporary cities? And how does facilitating mobility contribute to the livability of the public realm? The purpose of this paper is to attempt to answer these questions. On one hand, the paper explores the relationship between public space and urban mobility in the contemporary city, specifically by addressing the extent to which urban mobility can create better public spaces and even assist in producing a more sustainable model of mobility. Although ignored for a long time in the discourse on urban planning, the relationship between public space and urban mobility has the potential to create livable cities. Indeed, the use of public space by walking and cycling contributes to economic, environmental and social sustainability. Hence, together with economic, ecological and social indicators, public space and urban mobility also constitute relevant city components, when measuring a city’s sustainability performance. On the other hand, this paper seeks to suggest a set of measures related to public space and soft mobility that can be integrated into an already existing set of indicators commonly used to measure urban sustainability. In this regard, the paper contributes to the debate surrounding the need to invest more in public spaces and at the same time suggests to planners and policy makers that it is necessary to develop international measures for the evaluation of urban mobility and the sustainability of public space.</p>

scholarly journals The Role of Environmental Graphic in the Identification of Urban Public Spaces

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 1949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanieh Eshaghzadeh Torbati
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Analytic Method ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Library Method

Today one of the important spaces in cities is the public spaces that, according to their classification and specifications, there is no limit to the use of different groups of people, and due to the presence of all type of people in these spaces, attention to identifying is of paramount importance. Environmental graphic is one of the useful tools to design the spaces and create identity. Of course we know that urban identity is based on the relationship and coordination of various branches of art and science such as psychology, sociology, economics, traffic, landscaping, urbanization, architecture, graphic design and so on. Although, as an interdisciplinary topic, it can be said that this branch of graphic can affect urban identity reformation, given its potentials. In this paper we attempt to study about this topic through applied descriptive-analytic method and to consider the position and importance of environmental graphic in create identity for urban public spaces, using required parameters analyze and definition by library method. Considering the space constructed in city without notice to identity, we analyze this important that if there is public space made with environmental graphic, how it creates an identity.

scholarly journals Espacio público: en busca de nuevos significados y estrategias de sustentabilidad social. Un estudio comparado de dos barrios

2016 ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Rocío Valderrama Fabres
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Space Images ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Configuration ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Relationship

El presente artículo da cuenta de los principales resultados y reflexiones de un proceso de intervención e investigación desarrollado en torno a la percepción que los residentes de dos barrios tienen del espacio público, las imágenes asociadas a este espacio y si se constituye como una dimensión importante en la configuración de su ciudad; todo ello, considerando el contexto de construcción de estos espacios. Este estudio se realiza asumiendo que lo público se define a partir de los usos del espacio y no a partir de su estatuto jurídico, relevando la importancia de los significados que le asignan los sujetos. Los principales resultados de este proceso, se relacionan con la configuración local de las ciudades en donde las relaciones que se establecen con el territorio y con lo público se ven permeadas por las experiencias del habitar de cada sujeto. Al mismo tiempo, dependiendo de la relación que se establece con el territorio, es posible identificar estrategias en torno a la sustentabilidad de estos espacios, no solo en términos estructurales sino que también, en términos sociales y simbólicos.Palabras clave: Ciudad, espacio público, sustentabilidad social. Espaço público: na procura de novos significados e estratégias de sustentabilidade social.Um estudo comparativo de dois bairrosRESUMOO presente artigo da conta dos principais resultados e reflexões de um processo de intervenção e investigação desenvolvido em torno à percepção que os moradores de dois bairros têm do espaço público, as imagens associadas a este espaço e se estas se constituem como uma dimensão importante na configuração de sua cidade; tudo isto, considerando o contexto de construçãodestes espaços. Este estudo foi realizado assumindo que o público é definidoa partir dos usos dos espaços e não do seu estatuto jurídico, relevando aimportância dos significados atribuídos pelos indivíduos. Os principaisresultados deste processo relacionam-se com a configuração local das cidadesonde as relações que se estabelecem com o território e com o público sãopermeadas pelas experiências do habitar de cada sujeito. Ao mesmo tempo,dependendo da relação estabelecida com o território, é possível identificarestratégias em torno à sustentabilidade desses espaços, não só em termosestruturais, mas também em termos sociais e simbólicos.Palavras-chave: Cidade, espaço público, sustentabilidade social. Public Spaces: in search of new meanings and strategies insocial sustainability.A comparative study of two neighborhoodsABSTRACTThe present article accounts for the main results and reflections taken froman intervention and research process developed from the perception thatresidents from two neighborhoods have of public space, images associatedwith this space and whether this perception constitutes an importantdimension in the configuration of their city; all of this taking into account thecontext of the construction of these spaces. This study takes place assumingthat public is defined by the use of the public space and not by its legal status,revealing the importance of the meanings given to pubic space by people.The main results of this process are related to the local configuration ofcities, where relationships established with the territory and with the publicare permeated by the living experiences of each person. At the same time,depending on the relationship established with the territory, it is possibleto identify strategies around the sustainability of these spaces, not just instructural terms but also in social and symbolic terms.Key words: City, public spaces, social sustainability

‘Party in the street’: The partisan politics of space

2021 ◽  
pp. 239965442110338
Author(s):  
David Jenkins ◽  
Lipin Ram
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
State Power ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

Public space is often understood as an important ‘node’ of the public sphere. Typically, theorists of public space argue that it is through the trust, civility and openness to others which citizens cultivate within a democracy’s public spaces, that they learn how to relate to one another as fellow members of a shared polity. However, such theorizing fails to articulate how these democratic comportments learned within public spaces relate to the public sphere’s purported role in holding state power to account. In this paper, we examine the ways in which what we call ‘partisan interventions’ into public space can correct for this gap. Using the example of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM), we argue that the ways in which CPIM partisans actively cultivate sites of historical regional importance – such as in the village of Kayyur – should be understood as an aspect of the party’s more general concern to present itself to citizens as an agent both capable and worthy of wielding state power. Drawing on histories of supreme partisan contribution and sacrifice, the party influences the ideational background – in competition with other parties – against which it stakes its claims to democratic legitimacy. In contrast to those theorizations of public space that celebrate its separateness from the institutions of formal democratic politics and the state more broadly, the CPIM’s partisan interventions demonstrate how parties’ locations at the intersections of the state and civil society can connect the public sphere to its task of holding state power to account, thereby bringing the explicitly political questions of democratic legitimacy into the everyday spaces of a political community.

scholarly journals Activating Data through Eco-Didactic Design in the Public Realm: Enabling Sustainable Development in Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4577
Author(s):  
Carmela Cucuzzella ◽  
Morteza Hazbei ◽  
Sherif Goubran
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Based Design ◽  
The City

This paper explores how design in the public realm can integrate city data to help disseminate the information embedded within it and provide urban opportunities for knowledge exchange. The hypothesis is that such art and design practices in public spaces, as places of knowledge exchange, may enable more sustainable communities and cities through the visualization of data. To achieve this, we developed a methodology to compare various design approaches for integrating three main elements in public-space design projects: city data, specific issues of sustainability, and varying methods for activating the data. To test this methodology, we applied it to a pedogeological project where students were required to render city data visible. We analyze the proposals presented by the young designers to understand their approaches to design, data, and education. We study how they “educate” and “dialogue” with the community about sustainable issues. Specifically, the research attempts to answer the following questions: (1) How can we use data in the design of public spaces as a means for sustainability knowledge exchange in the city? (2) How can community-based design contribute to innovative data collection and dissemination for advancing sustainability in the city? (3) What are the overlaps between the projects’ intended impacts and the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Our findings suggest that there is a need for such creative practices, as they make information available to the community, using unconventional methods. Furthermore, more research is needed to better understand the short- and long-term outcomes of these works in the public realm.

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