Creativity-driven urban regeneration in the post-socialist context - The case of Csepel Works, Budapest

The complex institutional, economic, and societal trends that have characterized the post-socialist transition in Central and Eastern European countries have drastically reshaped urban development. The case of Budapest shows that three decades of nearly exclusive market-driven urban policies have resulted in a variety of social, spatial and...

Unraveling University–Community Engagement: A Literature Review

University–community engagement has been implemented by anincreasing number of universities across the world, in a period characterized by growing international competition. The growth of interest in university–community engagement has led to multiple definitions of this term and a high level of complexity in defining what it entails. Using a...

Local sustainability initiatives: innovation and civic engagement in societal experiments

Local sustainability initiatives are studied from two scholarly perspectives: the perspective of sociotechnical innovation, which relates to the capacity of bottom-up initiatives to contribute to the development of sociotechnical alternatives; and the perspective of civic engagement which relates to the capacity of citizens to organize...

How to sustain a social on-line campaign through means of user interface?

Running and operating an on-line social campaign in the context of authoritarian regimes is not a usual task to do. Besides motivation and courage, it requires creativity and flexibility. I have tried to explore all possible aspects of such context (from sociology and marketing to political science and design) and implement those findings into...