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Assessing and valorizing the values of Belgian reconstruction cityscapes today : revisiting Labo S’s engagement with Ypres and Heuvelland Ghent University
Late with the news. Italian engagement with serial news publications in the seventeenth century (1639-1700) University of Antwerp
Can the Straw Man Speak? An Engagement with Postcolonial Critiques of ‘Global Cities Research’ Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Literature, social engagement and civil commitment in the Italian literary press of the 18th and 19th centuries Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Collaborative and participatory challenges in urban media innovation Ghent University
Urban media, conceptualized as the sum of the socio-technological infrastructure and technologically mediated practices in the urban environment, are increasingly shaping the nature of interactions in the public domain. These interactions entail both interactions between citizens, interactions between citizens and the public space, as well as the interactions between citizens and their local governments. Innovation in urban media is driven by ...
Tinkering with the urban media environment: urban innovation, living labs and hackathons Ghent University
Media are increasingly intertwined with the urban environment. The emergence of mobile devices and everywhere-anytime connectivity caused the digital and the physical to become strongly interconnected. This changes the way public space is experienced and interacted with. As such, digital technologies and data have become important drivers for urban development and innovation (cfr. Smart Cities). However, when it comes to design and production ...
All Work and No Play? Facilitating Serious Games and Gamified Applications in Participatory Urban Planning and Governance Hasselt University
As games and gamified applications gain prominence in the academic debate on participatory practices, it is worth examining whether the application of such tools in the daily planning practice could be beneficial. This study identifies a research–practice gap in the current state of participatory urban planning practices in three European cities. Planners and policymakers acknowledge the benefits of employing such tools to illustrate complex ...
ZWERM: a Modular Component Network Approach for an Urban Participation Game Vrije Universiteit Brussel
As information technology is increasingly embedded in our cities, opportunities arise to design novel applications that benefit urban communities. We describe the design and evaluation of ZWERM (Dutch for the term 'swarm'), a public game that was specifically designed for augmenting community participation in urban neighborhoods. A network of ten components has been designed, some of which had different interfaces and design approaches: from ...
Urban geography as if urban knowledge matters Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article identifies two main challenges to the future of urban geography. First, the challenge of thinking about urban geography as a more or less coherent discipline in an era of fragmented work histories, with many researchers employed on temporary contracts and moving between countries and institutions, each with its own cultures of work and expectation. Second, the challenge of moving beyond the writing of internalist histories of ...