Fifteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices

Abstract

The living space has always been the focus of the designer’s attention. The relationship that is established between the two is subject to a twofold movement: space shapes itself and shapes us. The physical and infrastructural properties that characterize the environment play an active and dialogical role with its residents. Space is a medium between building, person and community; This has always been the case, although this characteristic is even more evident today in digital ecosystems. The city’s common area is in a historic crisis, which has recently been compounded by the global pandemic. The significant emptying of public space prompts designers to move their actions around new hubs of several projects, the main elements of which are emotion and memory. The design processes must be able to take emotional aspects into account. Beyond form and material, the projects will capture new functions aimed at generating positive emotions. Projects applied to non-places need to focus on issues such as good manners, the effect of the positive masks of good neighborliness, and creating a shared memory together. The purpose of this study is to emphasize that design as a narrative process of a place and not just as the elaboration of creative synthesis offers the possibility to control the transformations of common spaces by generating belonging and identity through the actions of the participants.