Cultural Event Management and Urban E-Planning Through Bottom-Up User Participation

2019 ◽  
pp. 1011-1030
Author(s):  
Angelo Corallo ◽  
Anna Trono ◽  
Laura Fortunato ◽  
Francesco Pettinato ◽  
Laura Schina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Active Role ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Event Management ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Cultural Event

Cultural events are an important driver of socio-cultural-economic transformation. The growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has affected the ways in which people can play an active role in cultural event management and urban planning. This work proposes a methodological approach that identifies the key elements for building bottom-up urban e-planning strategies. After a brief theoretical analysis of the impact of cultural activities, tourism and ICTs on urban planning, this paper presents the results of an empirical study carried out in the Puglia region (south of Italy) during the cultural event known as “La Notte della Taranta”, in which the crowd created added-value information via comments posted on social media. Data were collected using a mobile application specifically created for this event as part of the Folkture project, as well as from Facebook and Twitter posts. Using network-analytic and sentiment/semantic algorithms, the work aims to support the event management decisional process and produce results valuable to the field of urban planning.

Cultural Event Management and Urban E-Planning Through Bottom-Up User Participation

2018 ◽  
pp. 1059-1078
Author(s):  
Angelo Corallo ◽  
Anna Trono ◽  
Laura Fortunato ◽  
Francesco Pettinato ◽  
Laura Schina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Active Role ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Event Management ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Cultural Event

Cultural events are an important driver of socio-cultural-economic transformation. The growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has affected the ways in which people can play an active role in cultural event management and urban planning. This work proposes a methodological approach that identifies the key elements for building bottom-up urban e-planning strategies. After a brief theoretical analysis of the impact of cultural activities, tourism and ICTs on urban planning, this paper presents the results of an empirical study carried out in the Puglia region (south of Italy) during the cultural event known as “La Notte della Taranta”, in which the crowd created added-value information via comments posted on social media. Data were collected using a mobile application specifically created for this event as part of the Folkture project, as well as from Facebook and Twitter posts. Using network-analytic and sentiment/semantic algorithms, the work aims to support the event management decisional process and produce results valuable to the field of urban planning.

Cultural Event Management and Urban e-Planning Through Bottom-Up User Participation

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Corallo ◽  
Anna Trono ◽  
Laura Fortunato ◽  
Francesco Pettinato ◽  
Laura Schina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Event Management ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Cultural Event ◽  
The Impact

Cultural events are an important driver of socio-cultural-economic transformation. The growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has affected the ways in which people can play an active role in cultural event management and urban planning. This work proposes a methodological approach that identifies the key elements for building bottom-up urban e-planning strategies. After a brief theoretical analysis of the impact of cultural activities, tourism and ICTs on urban planning, this paper presents the results of an empirical study carried out in the Puglia region (south of Italy) during the cultural event known as “La Notte della Taranta”, in which the crowd created added-value information via comments posted on social media. Data were collected using a mobile application specifically created for this event as part of the Folkture project, as well as from Facebook and Twitter posts. Using network-analytic and sentiment/semantic algorithms, the work aims to support the event management decisional process and produce results valuable to the field of urban planning.

ICTs and Participation in Developing Cities

2010 ◽  
pp. 306-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Repetti ◽  
Jean-Claude Bolay
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Developing Cities ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Land Use Models ◽  
Internet Forums

Developing cities are experiencing substantial gaps in urban planning. They are due to approaches and instruments that do not correspond to the realities of the developing city including the prevalence of informal sector and slums, urban governance problem, and few resources. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) now offer enormous possibilities to use information flows, communication, and land-use models better. ICTs offer solutions that take greater account of informal activities, enable discussions with civil society and Internet forums to take place, etc. ICTs can enhance the planning of developing cities, if conditions are right. The chapter provides a review of the situation in developing cities. It analyses the challenges and potential of using ICTs to improve urban planning. Lastly, it puts forward key conditions for the successful and relevant implementation of ICTs in order to create the best conditions for real technological added value.

What difference does the context of activation make? Challenges and innovations in the Italian and Norwegian local welfare

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 478-493
Author(s):  
Matteo Villa ◽  
Venke Frederike Johansen
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of trans-contextual processes of implementation and governance in the transformation of social and labor inclusion policies in Norway and Italy, including research and practical implications. Design/methodology/approach It combines qualitative case studies with a framework that makes them comparable, namely, the Logics of Welfare. Findings Differences and similarities are related to regimes’ path dependencies as well as interactions between bottom-up and top-down dynamics of implementation. Their shifting logics and patterns enhance or hinder the local actors’ agency and enactment, and the systems’ capability to reduce the risks of exclusion. Results and the ways in which they are achieved are different, although in both cases the inclusion in the labor market remains a contended issue. Research limitations/implications The comparison is based on two case studies. A further development of in-depth comparative analysis may improve our understanding of the role of contexts in the implementation of policy reforms. Practical implications Reforms have limited capacity to achieve the expected outcomes, including due to a limited understanding of context-based factors. Practitioners and policy makers should take greater account of the latter and their active role in modifying them. Social implications This paper provides a deeper comprehension on how policy practices affect citizens’ hard pathways toward inclusion. Originality/value Through a comparative context-based analysis, the paper shows important differences, similarities and shifting modes of operation in activation policy as well as the role of socio-organizational contexts and bottom-up mobilizations. It looks forward to the possible added value derived from a wider testing of such approaches.

ICT-ENABLED BOTTOM-UP ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burak Pak
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Tools

This paper aims at discussing the potentials of bottom-up design practices in relation to the latest developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by making an in-depth review of inaugural cases. The first part of the study involves a literature study and the elaboration of basic strategies from the case study. The second part reframes the existing ICT tools and strategies and elaborates on their potentials to support the modes of participation performed in these cases. As a result, by distilling the created knowledge, the study reveals the potentials of novel modes of ICT-enabled design participation which exploit a set of collective action tools to support sustainable ways of self-organization and bottom-up design. The final part explains the relevance of these with solid examples and presents a hypothetical case for future implementation. The paper concludes with a brief reflection on the implications of the findings for the future of architectural design education.

Beyond the Social Determinants of Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Laura Hall ◽  
Urpi Pine ◽  
Tanya Shute
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Weather Changes ◽  
People First

Abstract This paper will reflect on key findings from a Summer 2017 initiative entitled The Role of Culture and Land-Based Healing in Addressing and Ending Violence against Indigenous Women and Two-Spirited People. The Indigenist and decolonizing methodological approach of this work ensured that all research was grounded in experiential and reciprocal ways of learning. Two major findings guide the next phase of this research, complicating the premise that traditional economic activities are healing for Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people. First, the complexities of the mainstream labour force were raised numerous times. Traditional economies are pressured in ongoing ways through exploitative labour practices. Secondly, participants emphasized the importance of attending to the responsibility of nurturing, enriching, and sustaining the wellbeing of soil, water, and original seeds in the process of creating renewal gardens as a healing endeavour. In other words, we have an active role to play in healing the environment and not merely using the environment to heal ourselves. Gardening as research and embodied knowledge was stressed by extreme weather changes including hail in June, 2018, which meant that participants spent as much time talking about the healing of the earth and her systems as the healing of Indigenous women in a context of ongoing colonialism.

scholarly journals Use of the Multi-Agent Paradigm in Sustainable Tourism

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Husáková
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
In Silico Models

Abstract Complex systems are characterised by a huge amount of components, which are highly linked with each other. Tourism is one of the examples of complex systems collecting various activities leading to the enrichment of travellers in the view of receiving new experiences and increasing economic prosperity of specific destinations. The complex systems can be investigated with various bottom-up and top-down approaches. The multi-agent-based modelling is the bottom-up approach that is focused on the representation of individual entities for the exploration of possible interactions among them and their effects on surrounding environments. These systems are able to integrate knowledge of socio-cultural, economic, physical, biological or environmental systems for in-silico models development, which can be used for experimentation with a system. The main aim of the presented text is to introduce links between tourism, complexity and to advocate usefulness of the multi-agent-based systems for the exploration of tourism and its sustainability. The evaluation of suitability of the multi-agent systems in tourism is based on the investigation of fundamental characteristics of these two systems and on the review of specific applications of the multi-agent systems in sustainable tourism.

scholarly journals A “Social Bitcoin” Could Sustain a Democratic Digital World

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Kaj-Kolja Kleineberg ◽  
Dirk Helbing
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Large Fraction ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Digital World ◽  
New Business ◽  
Future Version ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Digital Capital

AbstractA multidimensional financial system could provide benefits for individuals, companies, and states. Instead of top-down control, which is destined to eventually fail in a hyperconnected world, a bottom-up creation of value can unleash creative potential and drive innovations. Multiple currency dimensions can represent different externalities and thus enable the design of incentives and feedback mechanisms that foster the ability of complex dynamical systems to self-organize and lead to a more resilient society and sustainable economy. Modern information and communication technologies play a crucial role in this process, as Web 2.0 and online social networks promote cooperation and collaboration on unprecedented scales. Within this contribution, we discuss how one dimension of a multidimensional currency system could represent socio-digital capital (Social Bitcoins) that can be generated in a bottom-up way by individuals who perform search and navigation tasks in a future version of the digital world. The incentive to mine Social Bitcoins could sustain digital diversity, which mitigates the risk of totalitarian control by powerful monopolies of information and can create new business opportunities needed in times where a large fraction of current jobs is estimated to disappear due to computerization.

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