"This article – which represents the very first step in a research process– aims to provide a general overview of the main features of the Urban Interaction design project. A series of case studies will be discussed which constitute the crucial reference point for investigating the complex relationships between urban spaces and activities, generally of a spontaneous nature, undertaken by citizens. These activities are aimed at altering the physical structure and relational components of public spaces. . The research concerns the theme of Urban interaction design, an appropriate research field for defining the tools and processes of intervention. This type of design project is considered to be the result of negotiation practices and of an analysis aimed at transforming the components of the intervention sites into design proposals and decisions. These design proposals are based on the capacity to ‘identify’ and ‘describe’ the identity of urban contexts as the value that defines the places and their systems of reference. . In this sense, the term ‘Urban Interaction Design’ does not refer to the use of a specific technology, but to an approach to design which can accompany, and occasionally surpass, the actions and strategies of urban and local marketing in favour of a broader and fruitful dialogue with other disciplines. In particular, it is designed to be used in conjunction with the specific discipline of representation in order to rethink the traditional models of narrating places. Communication strategies and forms of data-gathering need to be introduced which are careful to interpret reality not as overlapping levels of information but as a collective way of thinking about living space and capable of communicating identity effectively. . The article also seeks to focus on the research of design objects, including spontaneous and\/or anonymous ones, and possible ways of cataloguing them in relational terms. . The article analyses the concept of a design process of urban spaces in which the communities that inhabit them and enliven them play the leading role. . The research will proceed with an application of a specific example - the urban area of Lavinaio in Naples - which will be examined by the Research Unit (the two authors). The research objective will be to provide guidelines and suggestions about a social interaction project which is both a repeatable methodological model and, at the same time, is capable of producing artifacts and actions related specifically to Urban Interaction Design.. "

Urban interaction design and other devices

CIRAFICI, Alessandra
;
FIORENTINO, Caterina Cristina
2012

Abstract

"This article – which represents the very first step in a research process– aims to provide a general overview of the main features of the Urban Interaction design project. A series of case studies will be discussed which constitute the crucial reference point for investigating the complex relationships between urban spaces and activities, generally of a spontaneous nature, undertaken by citizens. These activities are aimed at altering the physical structure and relational components of public spaces. . The research concerns the theme of Urban interaction design, an appropriate research field for defining the tools and processes of intervention. This type of design project is considered to be the result of negotiation practices and of an analysis aimed at transforming the components of the intervention sites into design proposals and decisions. These design proposals are based on the capacity to ‘identify’ and ‘describe’ the identity of urban contexts as the value that defines the places and their systems of reference. . In this sense, the term ‘Urban Interaction Design’ does not refer to the use of a specific technology, but to an approach to design which can accompany, and occasionally surpass, the actions and strategies of urban and local marketing in favour of a broader and fruitful dialogue with other disciplines. In particular, it is designed to be used in conjunction with the specific discipline of representation in order to rethink the traditional models of narrating places. Communication strategies and forms of data-gathering need to be introduced which are careful to interpret reality not as overlapping levels of information but as a collective way of thinking about living space and capable of communicating identity effectively. . The article also seeks to focus on the research of design objects, including spontaneous and\/or anonymous ones, and possible ways of cataloguing them in relational terms. . The article analyses the concept of a design process of urban spaces in which the communities that inhabit them and enliven them play the leading role. . The research will proceed with an application of a specific example - the urban area of Lavinaio in Naples - which will be examined by the Research Unit (the two authors). The research objective will be to provide guidelines and suggestions about a social interaction project which is both a repeatable methodological model and, at the same time, is capable of producing artifacts and actions related specifically to Urban Interaction Design.. "
2012
978-886542-128-4
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