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Evaluation of The Effects of Historical Urban Landscapes on Van City Identity
Creators: name: Aşur, Feran
name: Yılmaz, Muhsine Perihan
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2024

description: This research aims to examine the effects of historical urban landscapes on urban identity in the city of Van (Turkiye), where concrete cultural landscapes that have hosted various civilizations are layered. The research was conducted through a literature review and after expert evaluation in the selection of historical urban landscapes, which are cultural landscape areas, and a photo-survey was conducted with 415 people with a user-oriented approach. In this way, city images, identity and memory spaces in minds were determined. City users it has been concluded that historical urban landscapes are the dominant elements in the formation of urban identity in the central districts of Van. In this sense, some suggestions have been developed for the protection and development of historical urban landscape elements that provide a connection with the past and are important and effective in the formation of urban identity for their sustainability with their surroundings.
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title: Everything I Tell Myself
Creators: name: Lipack, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Voyeurism
subject: Truth
subject: Dogma
subject: Ordinary

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years and will not be available until April 2029 at the earliest.
description: Everything I Tell Myself is a collection of a stories made in an attempt to explore the truth, and how it exists in the lives of everyday people. It aims to search for the ways in which people come to decide their own truths, and how those truths may affect their lives thereafter. The stories are a mixture of fiction and nonfiction, as many stories are, created largely through recollecting on my childhood years spent roaming the mountains of West Virginia. Ultimately this work exists as a way in which I have searched for my own truths about life– and through wonderings and experiences of my own, I created these lives for my characters.
Baroque Garden Desıgn Perıod in European Palace Gardens
Creators: name: Musazade, Umıd
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2024

description: This study explores the complex evolution of Baroque garden design within European court gardens and illuminates its importance in shaping cultural, aesthetic and social landscapes. Through a multidisciplinary approach that blends historical analysis, architectural study and horticultural understanding, this study reveals the fundamental principles, key features and social motivations that drove the creation of these emblematic spaces. Using a comparative framework, it examines prominent examples from Italy, France, England and beyond, recognising regional differences and cross-cultural influences. Methodologically, archival research, site visits and landscape reconstructions are integrated to provide a comprehensive understanding of the genesis and evolution of these gardens.
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Biophilic Design in Green Buildings
Creators: name: Kucukali, Ufuk Fatih
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2024

description: The significant displacement of populations worldwide is continually creating a greater separation between humanity and the natural environment. This phenomenon has resulted in various negative impacts on the global ecosystem. The development of sustainable architecture and green buildings highlights the environmental impact of buildings through the implementation of strategies such as energy conservation, utilization of modern technology, and reduction of water consumption. However, to ensure long-term sustainability, the biophilic design must also be incorporated to establish a spiritual connection between the users and the buildings. The concept of biophilic design relates to the influence of natural elements on human beings. The many advantages of biophilic design, including stress reduction, enhanced well-being and productivity, heightened sense of tranquility, and improved concentration and relaxation, make it the most suitable design to be implemented. This study employs an extensive literature review methodology and utilizes photographic illustrations from various examples in order to explain the importance of biophilic design. Additionally, the study provides a brief introduction to the biophilic design models.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 6 No 2 (2024): Ubiquity
title: Analysing the Changing Foreign and Domestic Politics of the Former USSR
Creators: name: Katz, Mark N.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Domestic Policy
subject: Soviet Union
subject: Foreign policy
subject: Sovietology
subject: International relations

description: For the past few years, history seems to have been switched from "normal" speed to "Fast forward." Vast transformations have been occurring in what once appeared to be immutable aspects of Soviet foreign and domestic politics as well as in international relations generally. Nor have these transformations necessarily come to an end. Others may yet be in store. How should questions about the foreign and domestic politics of the former Soviet Union be analysed during this period of rapid change? The question is an important one since the methodology or approach scholars employ can in large measure determine the answers to the questions they ask. I will argue here that traditional Sovietology, or an analysis of domestic and foreign policy issues from the perspective of Russian and Soviet history, is not the most fruitful method for studying a situation in which rapid change is occurring. A more productive approach, in my view, is what will be called here comparative historical analysis - an approach which seeks to relate questions regarding the foreign and domestic politics of the former USSR to similar situations which have occurred elsewhere. No claim is being made that this method will yield definitive answers. What it can do, though, is bring to light a range of answers or possibilities that traditional Sovietology, by examining questions solely in terms of the Russian/Soviet historical experience, does not. In this paper, I will first examine traditional Sovietology and consider why it is no longer as useful a methodology as it once was. I will then outline comparative historical analysis and discuss why it might be a more appropriate methodology for analysing the current situation. Finally, I will discuss two examples of the very different results which different methodologies might yield when applied to the same question.
A Research on Factors Affectıng Vısual Perceptıon in Archıtecture
Creators: name: Şensoy, Elif Sena
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2024

description: The mental processes that an individual starts to develop from the moment he/she is born and continue throughout his/her life differ according to the society, level of education, past and current cultural environment and the experiences he/she is going through. Visual perception may differ from individual to individual. Therefore, the quality of the visual formations in the environment is an important factor in the formation of visual perception. Visual perception is a component that enables users and designers to meet in a common language, in other words, it has an impact on how architects present the design to users. It can be said that architecture and design is a discipline shaped around visuality and has an important role in the perception environment. Therefore, it is important for both the user and the designer architect to create the structures and designs to be designed by taking into account the title of visual perception. Visual perception criteria should not be ignored, especially in the design of living spaces or places where more time is spent. It is aimed to examine the factors affecting visual perception.
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Art or Architecture on the Street?
Creators: name: Shadkar, Mahdi
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2024

description: During the 1960s, a wave of avant-garde art movements emerged, pushing the limits of convention. The worlds of architecture and art started to blend, with artists transforming public spaces into the sites of exhibition and the very medium of their creations. A closer look at these movements may uncover some unapparent connections to the broader political dialogue of the post-war period, especially concerning groups such as the Situationists. The primary aim of this article is to explore the links between the postwar socio-political movements and the evolution of street art forms from the 60s to the present. This exploration revolves around crucial terms such as ‘dérive,’ ‘détournement,’ and ‘constructed situations,’ which are situationist artistic and socio-political concepts. Despite the absence of a direct historical link, these concepts share a discursive unity with post-war artistic events, indicating that contemporary art seeks to assume a more substantial socio-political role, without a distinct political stance. The article examines the work of pioneering artists like Christo, Arman, and Villeglé, who brought art into public spaces. Their work exemplifies how ‘public art’ emerged from the intersection of formalist approaches and the concepts of the Situationists. Notably, the investigation suggests a more nuanced relationship between using space as an artistic material and situationist theory than previously recognized. This article aims to expose the underlying psychological-political layers of modern and contemporary art, particularly emphasizing public art happenings and festivals like the 21st-century Nuit Blanche Parisienne and lately the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024. By analyzing the early works of the artists discussed in this article, we conduct a ‘comparative analysis’ of their characteristics with the texts and manifestos of the Situationists on urban life and cities and investigate the similarities. This process extends to recent public art events that serve as urban interventions in the city, approaching ‘architecture’ as what was presumed by the Situationists.
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title: Report: Anonymous, "Executive Summary: Flower Mound New Town," November 1973
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: New communities

description: Textual: Report, copy; 10.5” x 8” (25.4 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Report by an anonymous author, probably with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, entitled "Executive Summary: Flower Mound New Town" dated November 1973. This report discusses the background, developer, summary of progress, and issues and concerns concerning the development of Flower Mound. Flower Mound was incorporated as a city in Denton County, Texas in February of 1961. It began a new town development in 1971. Planned Community Archives Collection, 484.04
Editorial
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro Soares
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2024

description: In this issue titled Ubiquity, we explore the omnipresence of concepts, patterns, and phenomena that permeate urban, architectural, and cultural spaces. The term "ubiquity" not only invites us to consider the visible and invisible forces shaping our environment but also challenges us to question how these forces manifest in art, architecture, and society at large. From historical reflections to contemporary debates, the contributions in this issue provide a kaleidoscopic view of the intersections between design, public space, and the socio-political landscapes that frame them.
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Teaching architecture through intervention in public spaces
Creators: name: Quintela, João
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2024

description: This presentation explores the approach of architectural education to collaborative practices and complex social contexts through projects that intervene directly in public space, creating constructive and material solutions that establish points of dialogue with the community and the identity of places.

In particular, the presentation focuses on the conception and materialisation of a permanent project for the Quinta do Loureiro neighbourhood, at the request of the residents, through a partnership with the municipality of Campo de Ourique City within the scope of the Architecture degree at theUniversidade Autónoma de Lisboa. The choice of materials, the constructive solutions and the execution itself clearly reflect the ambition to create a dog park as a community space with new programmatic features and a poetic dimension.

The aim is to contribute to the debate on the importance of exploring the relationship between teaching and intervention in real contexts, in order to obtain results that, both from the point of view of the materials and their form and function, contribute to social dynamics and urban enhancement, helping to solve urban problems specific to a location, but at the same time capable of generating thoughts and methodologies of analysis and intervention applicable in other cultural and geographical contexts.
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Swimming Is Winning
Creators: name: Penz, Vera
name: Mumladze-Detering, Ana
name: Sperger, Amanda
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2024

description: How do we want to innovate lived urbanity in a more and more commodified city centre? From a social design and urban anthropology perspective, the paper explores the co- creative use and therefore enhancement of urban liquid structures as open access common spaces, using the example of the Swimming Association of Vienna’s Danube Canal (Schwimmverein Donaukanal - SVDK). SVDK started o[ as a collective of four social designers at the Academy of Applied Arts Vienna in 2020. As of today, it has grown into an open, bottom-up, non-profit and non-partisan cultural association with around 250 members between the ages of 13 and 79 years. SVDK’s aim is to revive the urban swimming culture in Vienna’s Danube Canal, a side arm of the Danube River that flows through the very city centre. Unbeknownst to most Viennese citizens, this practice is not a novelty but indeed a revival, as the canal has been a popular bathing and swimming spot until the 1920’ies. The authors, both active swim association members themselves, will trace the blossoming and weaving processes of a community within the local context and the steady pop-up of community-created urban swimming infrastructures as well as various artistic, creative and environmental interventions. Moreover, the paper will look at collaborations with fellow urban bathing initiatives across Europe as due to climate change, urban open water swimming becomes relevant for a growing number of cities. Ultimately, the project seeks to examine how disruptive, yet inclusive interventions can lead to a more liveable coexistence in the 21st century city. 
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Relational Encounters in Urban Public Spaces
Creators: name: Xiao, Ningfei
name: Twose, Simon
name: Hopewell, Hannah
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents a reimagination of urban public space through a site-specific performance. The work is transdisciplinary, engaging architecture and art practice, and is documented through a feminist posthuman autoethnographic approach. Urban spaces are reimagined through coalescing the author’s performative encounters, informed by collaborations with female Ewengki/Evenki shamanic practitioners from northern China, and female Rongoā Māori healers in Pōneke Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand. The performance, Healing Matrix, unfolds as a journey, traversing tangible and intangible relations in public spaces at the edge of Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington Harbour, where the city meets the sea. Complex moments of becoming are drawn out as the performance moves around the harbour’s edge, captured through feminist posthuman autoethnographic techniques: through mapping sensory impressions, improvisations, presences of other-than human entities, such as Taniwha (spiritual beings), and the researcher’s embodied shamanic perceptions and experiences. These techniques are influenced by the female indigenous Rongoā Māori and Ewengki/Evenki collaborators. The research subjectivity is decentred, and intricately connects to a relational, embodied collective of women, colonial urban sites, indigenous multi-species traditions, and technological entities. The Healing Matrix performance attempts to capture complex relations within urban public spaces that are present at the cusp of awareness. In encountering these evasive conditions, and giving agency to them, the work suggests new ways in which urban public space might be understood. This paper positions feminist posthuman autoethnography as a way to understand such complex relations, emerging from creative performances, and shows how these might prompt a reimagining of urban public space.
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title: Plan: Gulf Reston, "International Country Club, Reston, Virginia" Ca. 1969
Creators: name: Gulf Reston
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)
subject: National Golf Course

description: Textual: plan, original; 13.5” x 10” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Plan by Gulf Reston entitled "International Country Club, Reston, Virginia" dated circa 1969. This is a preliminary plan for the International Golf Course located in Reston, Virginia. This plan was used to show the board of the International Country Club, Inc., who built the golf course, the feasibility of Reston, Virginia as a site for this country club. This plan was created with the help of Urban Dynamics and Dan Coleman Associates. Planned Community Archives Collection, rm02.01
Public Dome Talks on Care and Community in Austria
Creators: name: Soyer, Laura
name: Gan, Gabriela
name: Schuster, Gerhard
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2024

description: In cooperation with the European Public Sphere initiative by the IG-EuroVision, the Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Center of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft organized public Dome Talks as part of the Care Tour. Under the roof of the European Public Sphere Dome, a mobile geodesic cupola, various challenges relating to community health and care were discussed in public conversations. The Care Tour took place at five locations in Austria between June and September 2023. Each stop was hosted by one of the five projects of the OIS Impact Lab “Caring Communities for Future”, a transdisciplinary research hub that promotes participatory projects at the intersection of health promotion, urban and regional development, and social sciences. 

 

The aim of the Dome Talks was to better understand the needs of different caring communities by creating opportunities for participation as well as dialogue and interaction between civil society initiatives, municipal administrations, health care services, and research. The open nature of the Dome Talks proved to be an ideal format for exchange between different actors in society. The Dome Talks brought up various ideas for caring communities and highlighted inherent needs, including improving the precarious working conditions of migrant care workers, creating opportunities for family caregivers to connect with each other, experimenting with creative participatory methods, and adapting rural and urban public spaces for citizens and people with disabilities. In the long run, encouraging the dialogue between community members may indirectly foster sustainable caring communities that contribute to improving the wellbeing and health of citizens. 
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Urban Cultures of Care
Creators: name: Breinbauer, Vivien
name: Franz, Yvonne
name: Lindsberger, Miriam
name: Saltiel, Rivka
name: Strüver, Anke
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2024

description: This paper elaborates on Joan Tronto’s feminist care ethics with a particular focus on her relational principle of caring-with. Drawing on her broad understanding of care, which includes both informal and formalised forms of care, we argue that the visualisation and interweaving of different practices, experiences, perceptions, spaces, infrastructures, and relationships of care highlight the relevance and emphasise the diversity, interrelations, and multilayered dimensions of care in everyday life in the city. Our considerations offer insights into the conceptual and practical development of a care map of the district of Gries in Graz, Austria. The map is created as a means to reflect on—and make visible—the multilayered dimensions of care in everyday life in the city. So far, it comprises a clustered inventory and mapping of care actors in the city and an analysis of maps created during care walks as a way to sense ordinary care practices. We conclude with a critical reflection of our approach and we discuss in which ways the visualisation of caring-with practices provides both challenges and opportunities to stress the political dimension of urban cultures of care.
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Re-Inventing the Urban
Creators: name: Schnell, Philipp Wilhelm Antonius
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2024

description: In the long and ongoing process of planetary urbanization, urbanity has appeared as a ubiquitous topic in disciplines ranging from sociology, urban studies, and economics, to literature, design, and contemporary art. As the chosen environment for most of today’s cultural, economic, and academic elites, urban space constitutes an ever-present backdrop for unfolding posthumanity. How to live together in todays’ cities, how to confront challenges together, and how to think about urbanization as a global phenomenon, have become pressing and ongoing questions that stir the curiosity of researchers, artists, politicians, and contemporary urbanites alike. In the face of multiple crises, we are confronted with the cascading effects of climate change, intercontinental migration as well as political and economic uncertainty. Meanwhile, urban centers with their cultural capital, innovative potential, and economic power appear as ideal places to look for inspiration, change, or maybe even revolution. As an approach that takes the ubiquity of the urban into account, the concept of planetary urbanization tries to describe urban existence as interwoven in international networks of production, consumption, and sociocultural interaction that span the entire globe. Hence, the urban is understood as an all-encompassing concept, which holds the potential to change the world and how we experience it.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 6 No 1 (2024): Re-Inventing the Urban – The Role of Creativity, Performativity, and Arts-Based Research Approaches to Research the Multifaceted Nature of Urban Spaces
Configuration of an Architectural Model by Rehabilitation of the Exterior Space Combinations of Street Markets with Dynamic Usage of Screens
Creators: name: Çubuk, Gencay
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2024

description: The aim of the study is to create an architectural model configuration for rehabilitation of the spatial combinations in street markets with dynamic usage of screens which redefine the spatial layers of retail and circulation spaces and to offer a suggestion for this configuration to trigger spatial interaction processes. In this context, by evaluating the literature data of the prominent figures (authors?) studying street markets, examining how the related themes present common intersection areas and in which contexts they overlap, publications touching on the ability of digital media components to play a role as components in the spatial configuration of street markets constitute the conceptual and practical scope of the study. Therefore, the following street markets are aimed to be addressed: Ballarò Market (Palermo, Italy), Maltby Street Market (London, UK), Market Day (Sarlat, France), Mathallen (Oslo, Norway), Markthalle Neun (Berlin, Germany), Mercado de San Miguel (Madrid, Spain), Mercato Centrale (Florence, Italy), Östermalms Saluhall (Stockholm, Sweden), Belvarosi Piac (Budapest, Hungary), Mercado da Ribeira (Lisbon, Portugal). The findings of the study show that spatial transformation processes provided through dynamic horizontal components of screens create social intersection areas, unlike conventional space production processes. These intersection areas trigger a dynamic series of spatial solutions and bring into question the role of screen modules in the use of space in cities for the formation of new spaces. Consequently, for rehabilitation of the spatial combinations, data obtained from decisive points in the work of pioneering figures (authors?) give rise to the need for the configuration of an architectural model. This need provides a basis for the potential of open, semi-open and closed spaces to be incorporated into the functioning of street markets through dynamic usage of screens, which will be created by a series of media components in different sizes and arrangements for the ground and upper layers.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 6 No 1 (2024): Re-Inventing the Urban – The Role of Creativity, Performativity, and Arts-Based Research Approaches to Research the Multifaceted Nature of Urban Spaces
Mapping data report. Cruise EX1305, summer ecosystem monitoring survey, August 2 - September 5, 2013, North Kingstown, RI to North Kingstown, RI.
Creators: name: Mashkoor, Malik
name: James, Jacklyn
name: Prezioso, James
Publisher: name: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Multibeam mapping--Maine, Gulf of--Data processing.

description: The cruise had numerous objectives to address research goals of several programs within the Ecosystem Process Division of the NEFSC and outside collaborators including: climate research program, Ocean acidification program, ecosystem science in support of stock assessments program, science in support of ecosystem assessments program, development of new technologies to support ecosystem studies, habitat mapping and NEFSC outreach and education objectives. The specific objectives included: 1) Assess changing biological and physical conditions which influence the sustainable productivity of the living marine resources of the northeast continental shelf ecosystem using CTD’s and bongo nets at stations located at predetermined randomly stratified locations. CTD will collect electronic data on temperature, salinity, density, and oxygen. 2) Trends in ocean acidification and nutrient levels will be determined by collecting water samples using a rosette sampler at predetermined fixed locations. 3) Detail incursion of Labrador Current water into the Gulf of Maine by conducting CTD casts in deep basin areas. 4) Collect samples for the Census of Marine Zooplankton Project by the use of 20-cm bongos piggybacked above the 61-cm bongos. 5) Analyze the size spectrum of water column particles using the Laser In-Situ Scattering and Transmissometry (LISST) instrument. 6) Determine the abundance and distribution of larval and juvenile yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea) in the survey areas surveyed. 7) Report northern right whale and other marine mammal bird and turtle sightings. 8) Collect acoustic data using the EK60 single beam unit from along the cruise track, as well as SCS data. 9) Collect data with new optical plankton equipment, the Imaging FlowCytobot plumbed into the Scientific Seawater System. 10) Conduct sea floor mapping in the Wilkinson and Georges Basin areas of the Gulf of Maine. 11) Conduct opportunistic Isaacs-Kidd midwater trawls near areas of puffin habitat that are near our planned cruise track in the Gulf of Maine.
Reviving public space through socially sustainable urban furniture
Creators: name: Schraml, Christina
name: Färber, Martin
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2024

description: A bench is there to sit on. That’s its purpose. That’s what it was built for. But if this bench is placed in public space, it can do much more than that. It livens up a place. It offers a place to rest. It leads to random encounters. But it can also displace, erect boundaries, restrict the scope for action. Although the German term “mobiliar” (furniture) derives from the Latin “mobilis” for mobile, urban furniture usually stands for the opposite: uniform and immobile elements. These are subject to legal norms and strict regulations in terms of design and use.
What forms can and should urban furniture take? Is it just about sitting down or can it also contribute to new (social) qualities of public space? Can urban furniture promote exchange between people? Does it create new meeting places? Can it foster transformation processes in a neighbourhood that go far beyond a purely physical redesign?
Together with residents Social Design Studio redesigned a park in Vienna’s second district. The park is located in a neighbourhood with a high density of large social housing complexes and home to an above-average number of children, young people and people over 65. A previous study by the Social Design department in 2017 – which conducted an artistic and research-based analysis of the area – showed that the open spaces close to the residential area offer too little recreational quality and are hardly accessible and used despite the high need for social spaces in the area. The creation of new urban furniture in a new micro-centre with the involvement of the residents was identified as a possible lever to improve the opportunities for local recreation and to promote neighborhood and coexistence. (see Schraml, Färber, Kohlmayr, Plášková and Valencic 2017; Schraml 2018)
In the continuing project "Stadt aufmöbeln - eine Plattform zur Erforschung unentdeckter Möglichkeiten von Stadtmobiliar" (2021; supported by MA 19 - Architecture and Urban Design), the potentials of urban furniture, participation processes and ecologically, socially and economically sustainable urban design were explored – with special consideration of the previously defined target groups (predominantly young and older people). Parallel to this, the redesign of the park was set up in collaboration with Wiener Stadtgärten and the second district of Vienna. Within a year, the park was redesigned based on the principles of citizen participation and circular economy. By identifying and utilizing (previously) unnoticed resources in the city, the project questions linear routines in the design pf public space and demonstrates an alternative, scalable and (internationally) transferable approach to a socially circular city.
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Restaging Urban Relationships: The Art of Inventing New Social Spaces in the City
Creators: name: Vettori, Brigitte
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2024

description: What do textile fabrics, residential streets and urban dwellers have in common? They are all part of the “living room on your own doorstep” – the public urban and social space that can be shaped by people. This article examines three projects by the Viennese urban and cultural initiative “space and place” that strive to enable the co-creative exploration, reinterpretation, and invention of new urban spaces:  First, “Stoff für’s Grätzel” (“Fabric for the neighbourhood”, 2021/2022), honoured with an award by the Chamber of Commerce, uses the medium of fabric to shed light on a Viennese neighbourhood. Textiles like a pair of painter’s trousers, a baby bodysuit or a tea towel from a pub are sewn together to form a “neighbourhood rug”, symbolically intertwining the community’s diverse threads. Second, the project “Residential Street Culture”, initiated by “space and place” in 2018, explores residential streets as urban oases. It challenges car-centric views, redefining these areas as democratic spaces for people. Third, the award-winning project “We speak ...” (“Wir sprechen …”, 2014-2023 – honoured by “SozialMarie”) celebrates the linguistic diversity of a city’s inhabitants by showcasing language skills of local business employees through window displays. In language-sharing events, native speakers are teaching phrases in their first languages to interested neighbours.  These projects employ various methods to activate local neighbourhoods and to support the redefinition of public spaces. This article discusses the role of art and culture in co-creating urban coexistence, questioning established social patterns such as mobility behaviour and throwaway culture. It highlights the potential of city dwellers to contribute to a redesign of urban life. 
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Supplementary document for Design a compact optical antenna system with high transmission efficiency utilizing a ring-like VCSEL array - 6378314.pdf
Creators: name: Jiang, Ping
name: Jianing, Liu
name: Shang, Shunyuan
name: Zheng, Yifan
name: Huajun, Yang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental information.
title: Teaching Diversity and Communication: A Phenomenological Study
Creators: name: Hopkins, Sam
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Phenomenology
subject: Diversity
subject: Critical pedagogy
subject: Interpersonal communication
subject: George Mason University

description: Critical pedagogy and phenomenology as theoretical frameworks encourage the inclusion of experience in the classroom as a source of knowledge and as a means of deconstructing hegemonic systems of power. This study utilized these theoretical frameworks to determine how diverse student backgrounds alter the educational process both individually and collectively. George Mason University’s COMM 101 course and Chapter 6 of the university textbook entitled “Adapting to Others: Diversity and Communication” were used as models for exploring these concepts. Interviews with instructors sought to qualitatively uncover themes in the classroom related to goals, course material, and student participation. Research was also conducted with student respondents, revealing that students tend to perceive lessons differently based on their racial/ethnic background.
An Analysis of Re-Functioning Industrial Buildings The Merter Espressolab Roastery Case
Creators: name: Eren, Meryem
name: Kaya, Özgül
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2023

description: Buildings that witnessed the Industrial Revolution, one of the turning points of history, bearing the architectural traces of the period and described as Industrial Heritage, can maintain their structural integrity despite losing their original functions over time. The aim of this study is to determine the satisfaction of the users regarding the buildings that were brought back to the city with a different function.​ Accordingly, the Merter ExpressoLab Roastery example was investigated and the success of the functional transformation, spatial setup, existing and added furniture in the space, furniture comfort, lighting elements, and the light balance created using natural light were reviewed in terms of architecture and user comfort. For the purposes of the study, a detailed literature review was followed by on site discovery. During this process, the features and details on the structure were visually documented by means of photographs and video footage. The visual data was recorded for subsequent analysis. Issues associated with user dissatisfaction were identified along with the reasons thereof. As a result of the study, it was concluded that the Merter Espressolab Roastery case was a successful refunctioning project from the user perspective.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 5 No 2 (2023): Designing Urban Experiences: From Trial/Error Abstraction to Instagram Graffiti Networks
An Investigation of Urban Furniture Use at Topkapi Earthquake Park
Creators: name: Ayhan, Beyza Nur
name: Durmuş, Melike
name: Baskin, Elif
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2023

description: The study aimed to investigate and analyze the suitability of urban furniture at the Topkapı Earthquake Park, which was designed as a venue, where people could take shelter and their basic needs could be met in case of a potential disaster, against universal earthquake park standards. Turkey is located in one of the most active earthquake zones, exposed to devastating effects of this natural disaster on both human lives, nature, and built environment. It is of great importance to effectively design and manage earthquake parks and urban furniture in order to minimize the loss of life that may occur before, during and after the disaster. Accordingly, the urban furniture included in Topkapı Earthquake Park was compared to Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park, an international example, in terms of sitting area, lighting, cover element, garbage bins, signboards, support service elements, and social activity areas based on given criteria and expectations. In addition to the literature review, the similarities and differences between the two earthquake park examples were investigated upon review of data obtained through on-site discovery, observation, and measurement studies, and a detailed comparison was made in a tabular format, supported by visuals. The comparative study helped identify the inadequate elements and problems of the park. In conclusion, although the use of urban furniture in Topkapı Earthquake Park provided a suitable environment for regular daily life, there were inadequate elements with regard to readiness to disaster situations and Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park was at a much better level in terms of planning and design compared to the Topkapı Earthquake Park. 
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 5 No 2 (2023): Designing Urban Experiences: From Trial/Error Abstraction to Instagram Graffiti Networks
Editorial
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro Soares
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2023

description: This title encapsulates the essence of the articles in Volume 5, 2nd Issue of the UXUC Journal, highlighting the diverse exploration of user experience, urban creativity, and the intricate processes involved in shaping our cities. As we navigate through these diverse perspectives and thought-provoking insights, we invite you to explore the intersections of user experience and urban creativity. Join us in unraveling the complexities that shape our cities and influence the way we interact with the designed world around us.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 5 No 2 (2023): Designing Urban Experiences: From Trial/Error Abstraction to Instagram Graffiti Networks
Good Design is Subjective, Contextual, and Intentional
Creators: name: Seiple, Tom
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2023

description: Many of us have come to depend on the internet and software as part of our daily lives. The virtual world is increasingly an integrated part of our physical world. As such, they tend to mirror one another, leveraging similar design approaches and principles. There are patterns and echoes in the digital world of UI/UX that clearly mimic the proven methods of urban planning and architecture practitioners. Today’s world of websites, mobile apps, and digital services has permeated nearly every aspect of life. Most applications don’t literally interact with our world, but they certainly resemble the ways we move about our physical cities. The user journey of going out into your town or city to find a store to buy new shoes is not all that different from ordering them from an e-commerce site. In fact, the relatively young field of user design unknowingly borrows a lot of fundamentals of urban design that facilitate this type of real-world transaction. As services move to the digital world, the problems they solve are still grounded in reality, as such they often reflect their physical replacement. We have “virtual shopping carts,” “home screens,” “email,” and so many other digital artifacts that mirror their physical counterparts both in name and function. Designers have digitized elements and services of the city and unknowingly, replicated the city in a virtual setting. As a result, the same design values that have grown out of centuries of canonized design are highly applicable to this new digital landscape. 
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 5 No 2 (2023): Designing Urban Experiences: From Trial/Error Abstraction to Instagram Graffiti Networks
Mining, Shaping, Visualizing, and Interpreting Instagram Hipertextual Networks of Freight Train Graffiti Communalities in North America Using Machine Learning Custom Models and Graphology
Creators: name: Abundis, Angel
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2023

description: The practice of benching in graffiti has evolved over time, transitioning from a gathering point for graffiti writers in New York City subway stations, where they admired and valued the artwork on passenger vehicles, to becoming an integral part of graffiti on freight trains in North America. Nowadays, interventions decorating rolling stock that circulates transnationally are documented and shared in benching communities. Although the dynamics and geographical reach have shifted from hyperlocal to international through online platforms, the underlying principle remains the same: benching serves as a meeting place where writers appreciate each other’s work and gain recognition.

This methodological-practical study explores the possibilities of analyzing communalities among graffiti writers on freight trains through their online publications. Communalities can be derived from data such as the types of documented graffiti, the number of likes, the quantity of comments, the communal glossary used in hypertextual tags, and the volume of posts published inside those hashtags.

This text revolves around the exposure of three hypertextual conversations with different mining scales and analyzing scopes. It showcases the hashtags of a graffiti writer in freight trains (#kosm), a communal meeting point hashtag (#freightgraffiti), and a geographically focused hashtag (#portlandbench). By selecting the seed node in the mining iterator, different types of symbolic exchanges, participants, and content within Instagram metadata and those generated through training and inference of machine learning models can be analyzed.

While the interpretation of these three examples is central, the text also presents the encoded computational techniques for data extraction, construction, and visualization of user-generated conversations on Instagram. Parameters such as depth, the number of mined posts, and the concept of seed node in data mining are discussed. The text addresses the limitations and capabilities of the machine learning models used, including object detection in images and categorization of hypertextual tags in posts. Additionally, it highlights data cleansing and parameters such as gravity, scale-ratio, and centrality measures used for real-time visualization achieved through Graphology.

 
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 5 No 2 (2023): Designing Urban Experiences: From Trial/Error Abstraction to Instagram Graffiti Networks
The Narrative of Walking – Artistically Exploring Cities through Audio Walks
Creators: name: Kahr, Rebecca
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2023

description: This article will discuss artistic audio walks as a contemporary approach to exploring cities and their history from a different perspective. It will compare three different approaches in three projects dealing with audio walks, distinguishing between artistic audio walks and touristic audio guides in museums and cities. Audio guides introduce listeners to a place through story telling. At the same time, other approaches towards making cities more visible artistically are gaining prominence. Walking through places with an audio guide is nothing new. This article shows that audio walks are not only guiding people through urban spaces but are artistically approaching listeners by making them (re-)act. It also demonstrates that walks like Johanna Mayrhofer’s “Working Borders”, the walking tours of Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, and the experience of Janet Cardiff’s audio walks all send a message to the listener, while giving them the chance to act and to perform in a spatial context mediated through the audio walks. The experience of an artistic audio walk itself educates the listener—either on a specific topic or about themselves. 
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 5 No 1 (2023): Decoding the DNA of urban spaces with artistic practices and creative research approaches
Facing the City
Creators: name: Greisberger, Eva
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2023

description: End of June, somewhere in a museum in Vienna: countless students push and shove their way through an art exhibition. Teachers in between, with a wandering controlling gaze trying not to let their students out of sight. Employees of the museum dressed in special t-shirts, guiding groups of students through the museums’ space, leading from one artwork to the next, lingering briefly, explaining, asking questions, explaining further while moving slowly on to the next densely filled room—stale air. In this final week of school, museums, and their educational programmes, such as guided tours and workshops, are traditionally fully booked, often for months ahead. It is the time of the year when students and teachers go on field trips and leave the physical boundaries of their school building behind, at least for a few days. It is the time of the year when going for a school field trip becomes the phenomenon of a collective act: students and teachers explore the city to learn and teach outside the classroom. Because a school year is planned rigidly and learning outside the classroom demands additional organisation and effort, the last week of school is often the only time they are doing so. 
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 5 No 1 (2023): Decoding the DNA of urban spaces with artistic practices and creative research approaches