Helle Juul, creative director, Ph.D & Kristine Samson, Industrial Ph.D.
Performative Aesthetics in Urban Space JUULFROST Architects
Public Space as a Catalyst for Change covers how can be approached as a catalyst for the development of 'the good city', both architecturally, socially and culturally. The project includes both theoretical studies and practice-oriented methods.
Objective
An interdisciplinary dialogue between architects, geographers, sociologists, ethnologists and planners is a prerequisite for an innovate development of public spaces and cities.
The project’s research and analysis will be founded in seminars where cross-disciplinary scholars and practitioners offer their specific views and knowledge.
Discription
A 3.5 million DKK grant from Realdania launches “Public Spaces as a Catalyst for Change” – a research project that seeks to qualify the practical and theoretical work regarding the development of the Danish city spaces. The project will run until the spring of 2009 and is lead by Helle Juul, PhD., Architect MAA, with John Pløger, Associate Professor at Roskilde University, as academic partner. The blossoming of the experience economy and the knowledge society has established new premises for city development. All over the Denmark ideas about creativity, diversity and “the sparkling life” sets the agenda in the effort to draw citizens, labour and attention to the cities. This cultural and experience orientated strategy raises the risk for a development where each city’s unique characteristic vanishes. The similarity between the strategies that the municipalities use makes it hard to distinguish one city from another. “Public Spaces as a Catalyst for Change” covers how public space as a strategy for the development and transformation of cities can be approached as a catalyst for the development of “the good city” – architecturally, socially and culturally. The project focuses on both theoretic studies and practical tools and addresses municipalities, researchers and students working in the field of city development. “Public Spaces as a Catalyst for Change” focuses on the development of new types of urban public spaces and city life as it takes place in new urban contexts. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, the purpose of the project is to carry out empirical and theoretical analyses of the qualities of the city communities and spaces. The overall aim of the project is to create new knowledge to be used in Danish city planning and education within the field of city spaces.
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