Talk of the City
Enhancing Socio-cultural and Socio-economic Values with Architectural Design - Revitalization of Place View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Candan Cinar, Cigdem Polatoglu, Omur Kararmaz
Cities as strongholds of economic development play an important role in differentiating economic development from resource use and environmental impacts. In doing so, they strive to establish a balance between social, environmental, and economic goals. While making decisions, there should be a search for how the tools available in the current environment can be used efficiently. A good urban design should be able to help to generate environmental, social, and economic benefits for the city and its inhabitants. One of the important issues of urban design is to evaluate the potentials for new living spaces and to provide efficiency in resource use. Nowadays, it is seen that urban transformation movement in big cities, especially in the existing urban areas, creates new environments where economic sustainability as well as social sustainability is ignored. Potential areas of social sustainability are downtowns or brownfield or urban wastelands. This paper indicates that the revitalization of these areas - re-planning, design activity aimed at the public interest is possible. The design idea for this within a holistic approach should be presented in the framework of spatial development, quality improvement in living spaces in order to provide data. For this purpose, Yıldız Technical University Department of Architecture has created a discussion platform and three years in its graduation project has carried the works of revitalizing the place to design studio. The last year students analyzed the socio-cultural structures of different urban contexts and developed building programs. The paper discusses the procedure and results of the cases.
Sharing Design at the Top of a City's Agenda: Facing the Challenge of Being a World Design Capital View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Marina Puyuelo Cazorla, Esteve Sendra Chele
In a changing context in which demography, the environment, and technology are transforming our way of life and our concept of well-being, the design must respond to the new needs of people and society. The new paradigm of design necessarily links education and research regarding products and services with design management, fostering different ways of dealing with innovation. The main issue for design in the future is cross-disciplinary knowledge that is pertinent and adapted to local concerns. The nomination of Valencia as 2020 Design World Capital (VWDC), a leading European case in the use of design to improve the use of public space, might be an opportunity to look more closely into the role of design in a smart city and its implications on the development of local design culture. Trends relating to the open design concept, collaborative design, and co-design require plural research that can be carried out from different approaches, which might respond to the challenge of innovation in contemporary design. This communication aims at offering a vision of innovation processes that appear clear from the interrelation between design methods, creative and communicative practices, self-producing experiences, crafts, companies and business, a praxis of design that arises from the current specificities and intersections of local experiences and new procedures available. Fostering the connections between design education, practice, and research, this paper explores, in the city of Valencia, the potential of collaborating with users, citizens, and new company formats or startups to spread awareness and culture of social design.
Mission 2050 - Smart and Soft Cities : Re-imagining City Innovation and the Future City
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Kimberlie Birks, Maren Maier
Despite widespread perceptions of public-sector inefficiency, government agencies have much to teach us about the magic of innovation. In this paper, the co-Founders of Creative States take a behind the scenes look at how a large metropolis like New York City was able to transform its aging network of public payphones into a leading 21st Century communication platform for the city. Through the lens of Creative State's forthcoming Future Field Prize, we explore how we hope to live, work, and commune together in the future of the networked smart city, and what it might look like to soften and deepen our human connection, relationship, and quality of life through the urban built environment. We draw on concepts in the book "Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate,” from Columbia University Press.
