The Public Space as Catalyst for Change
A systemic approach for decision making in Urban Planning.
Cities design and interventions represent key decision making challenges with the majorityof people in cities coming to live in cities in the near future. The core of this research aims to underlinethe importance of correlating urban, social and environmental data ecosystemsfor a better planning, execution and implementation at the many levelsof Design process.
Bringing Systemic Thinking into the play of Urban Infrastructure, making use oflive datasets and linking it with human agent collectives, enablesvarious layers of information andcombinesit with computational power. As a result theresearch contributes to the creation ofnew knowledge and feedsinto an integrated and holistic tool that highlights what variables are key to promote a resilientpublic space and how they relate with each other to aid policy and decision making within the design process.
The need for atool to support the dissemination of good practices in Urban Acupuncture among the communitycan be extremely valuable to preserve the character and identify of the city spaces in this age of information, changing the perception of our constructed reality and leading tobetter decision-making processes.
Designing for micro utopias!