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The Second Life of urban planning? Using NeoGeography tools for community engagement
2009
Journal of Location Based Services
We discuss an approach to harness and analyse narratives using virtual reality logging to make transparent how users understand and interpret proposed urban designs. ...
The majority of the world's citizens now live in cities. ...
Dr Bajracharya, together with academics from QUT's Creative Industry Faculty, received an ARC Linkage grant on the use of community narratives and new media in urban planning. ...
doi:10.1080/17489720903150016
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Serious playground: using Second Life to engage high school students in urban planning
2010
Journal of Educational Media
Virtual world platforms such as Second Life have been successfully used in educational contexts to motivate and engage learners. ...
Real world experiences and purposes ensured that the workshop enabled students to see the relevance of their learning. Our design also ensured that play remained an important 2 part of the learning. ...
In addition to the educational use, there is growing interest among urban designers and planners to use 3D virtual reality models such as SL for the design and planning of buildings, neighbourhoods and ...
doi:10.1080/17439884.2010.494432
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Enhancing impact using pedagogy: A roadmap for organising open science, citizen science and open innovation activities
2020
Zenodo
Recommendations are provided for each stage of the Teaching Cycle: 1) design and plan, 2) engage with students, 3) reflection, and 4) professional development. ...
The document corresponds to O2A2 of the INOS Project. The INOS Project aims to enhance the impact of OS/CS/OI activities by offering pedagogical support to HEIs and other activity organisers. ...
These sensors are to be used by school students to measure the urban heat island effect of the city. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.3932166
fatcat:tkghykrrqbgofadf4uawflls4q
Educating Urban Designers using Augmented Reality and Mobile Learning Technologies / Formación de Urbanistas usando Realidad Aumentada y Tecnologías de Aprendizaje Móvil
2017
RIED: Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia
In a real project-based exercise, the participants had to design a sculpture to be placed in a public space, checking the suitability of the object as for example the form, scale, location, materials, ...
This paper describes an educational experience using augmented reality (AR) on mobile devices as a tool for learning urban design concepts and specifically for architecture degree students. ...
These technologies, allow the creation and use of new Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), and Virtual World Environments (VWE), new platforms to improve the education in a collaborative and interactive ...
doi:10.5944/ried.20.2.17675
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Using Minecraft as a Geodesign Tool for Encouraging Public Participation in Urban Planning
2017
GI_FORUM - Journal for Geographic Information Science
A disadvantage of using Minecraft is that assessing the reliability of designs for urban planning is time-consuming. Furthermore, using Minecraft models requires participants to be highly motivated ...
As part of this research, a prototype model was developed based on the enhanced transformation of actual spatial datasets into a Minecraft virtual world. ...
Support from FME, Safe Software Inc., and constructive feedback on the prototype design by Dmitri Bagh-FME Scenario Creation and Testing Analyst are gratefully acknowledged. ...
doi:10.1553/giscience2017_01_s300
fatcat:njw2jxhbcbhnnbzcfrxp5vh5le
Co-creating the Future : The Power of Social Makerthons in Urban Innovation Ecosystems
2021
pnd - rethinking planning 2021(2)
The article describes examples of four projects applying this format in urban environments during the pandemic. ...
Researchers, citizens, policy makers and other stakeholders are seen as partners, even allies, in the need to respond to local and regional challenges. ...
and the future of mobility The ideas the young people developed ranged from urban gardening networks, sustainability festivals in collaboration with researchers and the local community, to innovations ...
doi:10.18154/rwth-2021-10421
fatcat:52ldflosrbgvpabhpplnvyerea
Without libraries what have we?
2019
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Transforming Communities - C&T '19
We explore the potential of public libraries to act as an ally and cooperation partner in participatory design and technology education in general, with a significant potential to broaden micro-level actions ...
We suggest that we need to start thinking about ways to create scalable approaches that would grow the temporal and spatial impact of actions and practices that intend to increase citizens' understanding ...
We would also like to express our gratitude to all our study and workshop participants. Dr Luusua gratefully acknowledges the grant from the Academy of Finland (# 316136 AICity). ...
doi:10.1145/3328320.3328387
dblp:conf/candt/YlipulliL19
fatcat:px3oxjku6jakbmsb4v7hsmqnou
USING CROWDSOURCING TO SUPPORT CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN STRATEGIC URBAN DEVELOPMENT PLANNING: A CASE STUDY OF OSTRAVA, CZECH REPUBLIC
2018
Journal of Competitiveness
Using Ostrava, Czech Republic as a case study, this paper explores how city government engages citizens in creating the strategic urban development plan. ...
city governance, as a way to engage citizens in the process of urban planning. ...
The Ostrava City Strategic Development plan 2017-2021 was approved in January 2017. It was created through the collaborative efforts of experts, public figures and citizens from Ostrava. ...
doi:10.7441/joc.2018.02.06
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Using Virtual Environment Technology to Improve Public Participation in Urban Planning Process
2007
Journal of urban planning and development
This paper explores the use of Virtual Environment (VE) technology in urban planning. ...
VEs from GIS Data A natural way of making VE technology available for urban planning is to improve existing software. This is the idea of building city VEs from GIS data. ...
CASA developed the Collaborative Virtual Design Studio (CVDS) system (Dodge et al. 1998), using Active World (Active Worlds Inc. 1995) technology to make it accessible over the Internet. ...
doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9488(2007)133:4(233)
fatcat:hch3ckkyuzfgjcpufzw5vxnhhe
An "Animated Spatial Time Machine" in Co-Creation: Reconstructing History Using Gamification Integrated into 3D City Modelling, 4D Web and Transmedia Storytelling
2021
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
The spatial future could be integrated using 3D drawings by public space designers and architects. ...
The result of this co-creation is the start of an "Animated Spatial Time Machine" (AniSTMa), a term that was, to the best of our knowledge, never used before. ...
Acknowledgments: The authors would like to express their gratitude to the City of Ghent for collaborating in this research. ...
doi:10.3390/ijgi10070460
fatcat:tbknuxqepzfhlknegbmuvss63e
Urbanismo virtual: un enfoque centrado en el usuario
2019
International Conference Virtual City and Territory
The main goal of the paper is to present the use of digital transformation in processes of urban design through Virtual Reality in which specialized users can analyze, represent and transmit ideas, problems ...
The data obtained from the assessment exemplify the effectiveness of virtual systems on the urban design process. ...
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interests. ...
doi:10.5821/ctv.8430
fatcat:2vfqmmsixbdkdokxyieskbmxki
Different Levels of Smart and Sustainable Cities Construction Using e-Participation Tools in European and Central Asian Countries
2021
Sustainability
Therefore, this paper contributes to the debate on the different uses of ICTs in SCs construction in developing vs. developed countries, by examining the use of ICTs for creating collaborative environments ...
The findings of this paper put an emphasis on the need for taking into account the differences among SCs in developed vs. developing countries when raking or when performance measurement is designed, because ...
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/su13063561
fatcat:paw5xunq2vdlbidp6i5wbthwfy
Preference for different urban greenscape designs: A choice experiment using virtual environments
2019
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
A B S T R A C T Nature in cities serves a multitude of purposes, one of which is that it provides citizens opportunities to recover from stressful daily urban life. ...
The research was conducted through an online survey in four cities in the Netherlands (n = 4,956). It used stated choice methods in a virtual environment street design. ...
Acknowledgements This research was funded by NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). The authors express their gratitude for the feedback received during the review process. ...
doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2019.126435
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Local Data and Global Ideas : Citymaking in Times of Digital Transformation
2021
pnd - rethinking planning 2021(2)
The findings are structured into two modes of operation between virtual and physical space, and related to formal processes of urban development. ...
So-called citymakers, the actors involved in collaborative processes of urban development, are increasingly using technology and data to support their efforts. ...
The transformation of space can be related to its meaning (perception, symbols, culture), to urban praxis (taking action, designing space), but also to collaborative planning processes. ...
doi:10.18154/rwth-2021-10411
fatcat:i55b5fyqezab5psjhazwdnt2xu
Academia permeating society through Citizen Science: Use cases of engagement in Higher Education
2020
Zenodo
The document corresponds to activities 1 of Output 1 (Field analysis: Positioning HEIs in open and citizen science for open knowledge and innovation). ...
This study helps to identify how HEIs currently perform in citizen science activities, which is the untapped potential therein, and the ways in which the HEIs can cater to the needs for citizen participation ...
Special thanks to Antoine Blanchard who has acted as peer reviewer of this study. I also wish to thank the graphic designer, Mr. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.3932215
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