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    The design of co-participation processes in public spaces in São Paulo as university extension project: The revitalization process of Dom Orione and Major Freire Squares
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2020) Sanches, Débora; Ortiz, Sérgio Ricardo Lessa; CeIED (FCT) - Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares em Educação e Desenvolvimento
    This work discusses the revitalisation process of Dom Orione Square and Major Freire Square, developed in a university extension project by architecture and urban planning students of Centro Universitário Belas Artes in São Paulo. The Dom Orione project was conducted jointly with Association Novolhar, which provides social inclusion to children and teenagers in need living near the square. Even without a proper playground, the square is used by children all through the week. At weekends a flea market takes place, with local vendors using improvised tents for selling antiquities. To better understand the children’s expectations, the students organised a design and sculpture workshop in which children could express, the changes they wanted in the square in a playful manner. Through the drawings and clay sculptures, the students were able to create a project that met the needs of the local population. In the Major Freire Square, the project was developed in partnership with the NGO "EU RESOLVO", taking also into account the needs of local residents. Due to its proximity to the São Judas subway station, Major Freire Square has a great potential for recreation activities. The students organised meetings with the local population to discuss their needs in order to create a project suited to the locals. It is believed that participatory processes are fundamental for the training of architects and urban planners sensitive to the real-life issues of the city. Consequently, the appropriation of public spaces by the population in general and by children and adolescents in particular, will be better understood and taken into account. In this way, discussing methodologies and development alternatives by participatory projects contributes to future public policies and to the development of responsive public spaces.
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    The effect of public places on community resilience. A case study of the role of social and digital tools in the City of Volos (Greece)
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2020) Ruchinskaya, Tatiana; Lalenis, Konstantinos; CeIED (FCT) - Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares em Educação e Desenvolvimento
    Community resilience provides capacity to speed up recovery from disruptions, minimizes the impact of crises and helps to plan and adapt to long-term urban challenges. Public places are vital structural elements of the urban environment and they are considered useful tools for community resilience if they have physical and social capacities, with inclusiveness as their conceptual basis. This chapter investigates the main resources and activities of community resilience related to urban public places, and explores whether public places are useful tools for risk mitigation, emergency response, recovery and adaptation. A case study in the Greek city of Volos is conducted. The study explores the existing institutional framework and community building for disaster management, it surveys public spaces in Volos, and explores their role in disaster prevention. Furthermore, the case study investigates social risk mitigation practices in public spaces, identifies challenges associated with community resilience and discusses strengths and weaknesses of using digital tools to overcome these challenges. Within this framework, the potential of using Blockchain technology for strengthening community resilience is discussed by elaborating on its features and existing applications.
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    Planning of public open spaces with digital tools. The example of the WAY CyberParks
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2020) Duarte, Tiago António Leal; Mateus, Diogo; CeIED (FCT) - Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares em Educação e Desenvolvimento
    The aim of this chapter is to discuss how digital technology can assist public open spaces’ planning processes. It is centred on the opportunities that digital technology offers to aid spatial planning, by introducing the monitoring tool WAY CyberParks, developed and tested within the CyberParks Project. This digital tool intends to increase information and knowledge about places in order to create more inclusive public spaces that correspond to the needs of their users. The digital tool, developed to monitor how people use public spaces and as an exchange interface between users and planners, increases the understanding of users’ needs and preferences. The challenge is to attract users to engage with the app during their visit to public spaces and define the number of users required to obtain a representative sample. One of the main objectives of this digital tool is to allow strong public participation, therefore users’ opinions should be representative. As a result, WAY CyberParks intends to be a tool to be used by planners in the co-creation of public spaces. The analysis of the tests of WAY CyberParks in Lisbon serves to demonstrate the features of this tool and the type of data gathered. This chapter makes an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of this tool, and the advantages of using digital tools in the processes of planning and co-creating public open spaces.
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    Producing collaborative public space - The Laboratory of Intervention in Architecture in situ / experiment
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2020) Ramalhete, Filipa; CeIED (FCT) - Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares em Educação e Desenvolvimento
    This chapter discusses the role of collaborative practices for the production of public spaces. The growing complexity of urban contexts, due to changes in the production model and in urban activities is a challenge for scholars, technicians and residents. In this context collaborative practices have been a common approach in urban interventions in the last decades. The text presents eight editions of the project Laboratory of Intervention in Architecture in situ/, from 2012 to 2018. It is a project of intervention in local public spaces with the partnerships of the Municipality of Almada and numerous local institutions, using collaborative practices as methodological approach. In situ/ is also a learning process, as it is coordinated by a research centre, and has a strong concern with the educational aspects of these living labs and with urban research. Different research themes have been addressed – such as informal neighbourhoods, old industrial areas or coastal environmental protection – but they all have a common ground: how can communities (be they academic, local or institutional) contribute to solve territorial problems in transitional urban contexts using public space as a mediation and negotiation tool? In situ/ projects aim to promote innovative teaching and learning experiences outside the academic context, in multidisciplinary and diverse social and cultural contexts, but also to investigate issues of the city in transition and intervene in real contexts of action, promoting diversified partnerships with local entities, designing and building solutions to the challenges of contemporary metropolitan contexts, thus contributing to improve the quality of life of the populations. Along the same lines, this chapter aims to present the laboratories’ methodological approach, focusing on the organizational aspects, the importance of all the actors involved and of the learning experience.
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    Technology and community communication: the use of the radio broadcasting as a strategy for urban sustainability
    (Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2020) Almeida, Edney Mota; Viana, Lúcio Hanai Valeriano; CeIED (FCT) - Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares em Educação e Desenvolvimento
    This work addresses a study developed in the city of São Paulo (Brazil) with the Rádio Comunitária Heliópolis (Heliópolis Community Radio Station), which from Monday to Friday, from 12h00 to 14h00, broadcasts the programme Bairro Educador (Educating Neighbourhood). The research was conducted between November 12 and 16, 2018, aiming to understand how a community radio station can contribute to sustainable urban development. By means of participant observation, the programme schedule and episodes (via radio and the internet) and the broadcasted interviews were analysed. Despite the anthropological approach, the research was based on the theory of communication, using the concepts of social marketing and communication for development, aimed to capture changes in awareness, behaviour and human action due to the challenges imposed by contemporary society. The concepts used challenges habits and cultural and social attitudes standardized and trivialized for decades by the social structure in force. The broadcasting schedule, directed at urban sustainability, indicated strong appeal for the listeners, especially when an average of 100% increase in audience was observed the moment it was disseminated. This appeal was reaffirmed in the qualitative analysis on the listeners’ participation in the social networks. These allow us to conclude that despite the difficulties in altering the population’s deep-rooted behaviour standards, it is possible to envisage possibilities for social transformation using diversified communication technologies. The literature, as well as the phenomenon observed, indicates that different factors may influence actors’ involvement in the search for collective solutions for common problems. It was possible to verify that a broadcast programming strategy aimed at raising awareness, mobilizing and sensitizing, placing the common citizen in the centre of the proposals, can have a significant impact in solving or reducing the problems related to urban sustainability.