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Design issues for building deliberative digital habitats
No full textThis paper discusses some issues that it is worth considering in the design of deliberative digital habitats. It identifies four spaces characterizing these habitats and proposes three dimensions to be considered when designing them: the gemeinschaft dimension, the gesellschaft dimension and the technological dimension. The aim is to help public institutions as well as grassroots movements to pay the due attention to these critical issues which are often overlooked
Diversity, community and participation: how Covid-19 has boosted the main issues of public space design.
Full text linkIn our earlier research on urban regeneration process and the specific role played by public spaces, we have focused on three key-concepts that represent our interpretation of multiple dynamics that occur in public space design: they are diversity, community and participation. In this paper we propose a reinterpretation of those topics because we believe that the Covid-19 pandemic takes a role as an accelerator in the development of urban projects. In addition, due to a collaboration with the municipality of the city of Mantua, we conducted research on how Covid-19 has boosted the main issues related on designing of public space. So, in conclusion, we propose a new set of keywords such as: care as reciprocal responsibility; interplay as interactions of different factors; adaptability as the ability to take action in evolving scenarios; integration as the way to mange urban complexity; proximity, considering both the social and urban field; and finally, planning time as the necessity to plan both short term and long-term actions
Different meanings of memory, a value for a complex landscape design
No full textOur researches, with particular reference to the Mantuan design experience aimed at enhancing the Prati Stabili of the Mincio Valley, return a series of interesting considerations related to the historical context. Among the various aspects, what emerges is the theme of dynamism applied to landscape, according to which it corresponds only to one of the possible configurations that the territory can assume over time, and the theme of landscape as a common good and a fundamental element for the consolidation of identity, as also underlined by the European Landscape Convention.
The historical layering largely determined by humans together with the idea of landscape as a stimulating place for the individual awareness, testify the mutual relation between man and context, opening a window on the role that memory can play in this interconnection
Tecnologie e regole della partecipazione per la piena realizzazione della cittadinanza digitale
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From e-Participation to Online Deliberation : Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation, OD2010, Leeds, UK, 30 June - 2 July, 2010.
No full textManaging the design-manufacturing interface in VEs through MUVEs: a perspective approach
No full textThe interfaces among different organisational functions are often affected by barriers against integration, particularly in the case of design and manufacturing. The relevance of overcoming such barriers - that may become a driver of cost and opportunity loss - grows with the degree of virtualisation of the enterprise. In this paper the authors tackle the problem of lowering barriers between design and manufacturing in virtual enterprises through the exploitation of ICT (information and communication technology), that - in this vision - becomes a key success factor not only for eliciting (tacit) knowledge, but also for fostering social interaction. The paper explores the possibility to use virtual worlds (such as Multi User Virtual Environments) in virtual enterprises for creating suitable digital habitats able to support the higher levels of the semiotic ladder and then lowering the design-manufacturing integration barriers
Building digital participation hives : toward a local public sphere
No full textThe so-called Web 2.0 has been an incubator for a number of initiatives and for several social networking sites that collect citizens’ remarks and suggestions on the state of public spaces, on the quality of public services, and on public officials’ activities, and that include facilities to enable participants’ aggregation around civic causes. All these initiatives encourage basic civic engagement, but the way they are designed and managed hampers their evolution toward higher levels of citizen involvement in (online) deliberative processes. This study analyzes some Web 2.0 civic websites and identifies three key design factors that hinder the growth of civic participation toward more significant levels. It goes on to propose design guidelines for online social interaction systems that—alongside existing grassroots spaces—act as hives to collect and coalesce “civic” pollen (information, reported problems, ideas, opinions, participants) from various web sources into trustworthy online participation environments that foster deliberation
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