Remote Places, Public Spaces. The Story of Creative Works with Ten Small Communities
Edited by: Human Cities – SMOTIES, Davide Fassi, Annalinda De Rosa, Inge Eller, Michael Dumiak
The final publications explore the approaches, engagement, outputs and legacy of SMOTIES in the ten small and remote places.
- Part 1, edited by Michael Dumiak, gathers ten stories taken from a variety of narrative perspectives and at different points in SMOTIES project development. The stories draw on interviews with residents and members of associations active in these areas; these sketches are an effort to understand what makes these places so vivid and unique and reflect what brings them together.
- Part 2, edited by Inge Eller and Michael Dumiak, is devoted to the experience and cooperation among partners and local stakeholders. Through conversations with the players involved, this section examines how these areas have been approached, with their strengths and challenges, how the residents and associations were engaged in this creative process, how different tools and instruments were implemented, succeeding in bringing out new ideas for reinventing public space, imagining solutions for the inhabitants with the inhabitants of these areas far from the big cities.
- Part 3, edited by Davide Fassi and Annalinda De Rosa, uses an academic approach to analyse the work completed over the four-year project. The researchers’ final scientific reflections on the research topics include a study on power relations in participatory design practices, participatory purposes, the social impact of design in remote areas, a reflection on case studies around the world, methods for prototyping public space, and design-driven processes of ethnographic research in territories.
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