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Design and Prototyping of an Interactive Virtual Environment to Foster Citizen Participation and Creativity in Urban Design

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Public Participation encounters great challenges in the domain of urban design concerning decision making and citizens’ appropriation of a future place. Many tools and methods have been proposed to ease the participation process. In this paper we are targeting artefacts used in face-to-face workshops, in which citizens are asked to make design proposals for a public space. We claim that current state of the art can be improved (i) by better articulating digital artefacts with participatory processes and (ii) by providing interfaces that enhance citizen’s spatial awareness and comprehension as well as collective creativity in urban design projects. We present the design and prototyping of an interactive virtual environment that follow the design-science research guidelines.

A prior version of this paper has been published in the ISD2018 Proceedings (http://aisel.aisnet.org/isd2014/proceedings2018).

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    1998 UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, adopted by the fourth “Europe for Environment” conference in Aarhus, Denmark, on 25 June 1998.

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    Council of Europe Recommendation 1430 (1999) of the Parliamentary Assembly on access to information, public participation in environmental decision-making and access to justice.

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This work is part of the U_CODE project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 688873.

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    Barnabé Faliu

  2. ISEN Yncréa Méditerranée, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, LEST, Toulon, France

    Alena Siarheyeva

  3. LiSPEN, Arts et Métiers, UBFC, HeSam, Institut Image, Chalon-sur-Saone, France

    Ruding Lou & Frédéric Merienne

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Faliu, B., Siarheyeva, A., Lou, R., Merienne, F. (2019). Design and Prototyping of an Interactive Virtual Environment to Foster Citizen Participation and Creativity in Urban Design. In: Andersson, B., Johansson, B., Barry, C., Lang, M., Linger, H., Schneider, C. (eds) Advances in Information Systems Development. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 34. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22993-1_4

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