Beyond urbanism - A design approach in social sustainability in the digital age
Translated title
Hinsides urbanisme - En design tilgang til social bæredygtighed i den digitale alder
Authors
Jensen, Peter Primdahl ; Berbik, Otto Geza ; Bukovszki, Viktor
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2016
Submitted on
2016-05-25
Abstract
This thesis addresses the era of “radical mobilities,” in which diverse groups rapidly appear and dissolve in cities while an increasing share of social life unfolds in digital networks. It asks what role urban design can play in social sustainability and everyday integration in the digital age, and how “networked space”—the system of circulating social practices across physical settings and connected quasi-objects—can be operationalised for social ends. Kennedy Square in Aalborg, Denmark, a major transport hub adjacent to a refugee centre and used by varied groups, serves as a testbed. Combining site analysis with three experimental design proposals, the concept deepens the square’s programmed structure to extend both transitional and stay activities by coupling physical space with computed environments capable of displaying and distributing locally relevant, voluntarily created content. System diagrams, scripting, and conventional urban design tools are used to articulate and prototype this hybrid networked space. The thesis concludes that hybrid, networked spaces can increase expressivity, connect newcomers’ personal networks, and support a process-driven approach to urban design, offering public spaces new ways to mediate between co-present yet socially detached communities.
Dette speciale tager udgangspunkt i de “radikale mobiliteter”, hvor forskellige befolkningsgrupper hurtigt opstår og forsvinder i byerne, samtidig med at en stigende del af det sociale liv udspiller sig i digitale netværk. Det stiller spørgsmålet: hvilken rolle kan urban design spille for social bæredygtighed og hverdagsintegration i den digitale tidsalder, og hvordan kan “netværksrummet” – systemet af cirkulerende sociale praksisser på tværs af fysiske omgivelser og forbundne quasi-objekter – operationaliseres til et socialt formål? Som eksperimentelt laboratorium anvendes Kennedy Square i Aalborg, et centralt trafikknudepunkt med et nærliggende flygtningecenter og mange forskellige brugergrupper. Gennem stedsanalyse og tre designforslag uddybes pladsens programmerede struktur for at udvide både transit- og opholdsaktiviteter ved at koble det fysiske rum med beregningsmiljøer, der kan vise og distribuere lokalt relevant, frivilligt skabt indhold. Arbejdet kombinerer systemdiagrammer, skripting og konventionelle urban design-værktøjer til at artikulere og prototypere dette hybride netværksrum. Specialets konklusion er, at sådanne hybride, netværksbaserede rum kan øge udtryksmulighederne, involvere nytilkomnes personlige netværk og understøtte en procesdrevet tilgang til urban design, hvilket giver offentlige rum nye muligheder for at bygge bro mellem samtilstede, men socialt adskilte fællesskaber.
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