Interactive Public Spaces

Living together requires a civic infrastructure of public spaces that provide opportunities for people, despite their many differences, to interact, make sense of a common world, build trust, and form alliances.  Various developments in both urbanism and digital technologies have challenged these opportunities, leading to distinct dynamics of privatization, social fragmentation, and polarization. In our projects, we approach these developments critically, but at the same time we hopefully explore how the use of digital and hybrid technologies could be designed to reinvigorate our public spaces.