Wandering from the shopping street into the department store: Markthal V&D

The shopping street of Alkmaar, the Laat, is in need of a new public function that creates a domain to stay. The vital location of the former department store offers a space directly into the cultural centre of the city, close by terraces, shops, or other amenities. The local culture of the city of Alkmaar has determined the new experience of...

Design for postponing loneliness in the public domain

This graduation thesis report gathers the research activities investigating loneliness and the design to postpone it. The research approach refers to Vision in Product design (ViP), which includes exploring the domain. The context factors were gathered based on the literature, interview experts and non-experts, and observations. The research was...

DEMO DOMAIN; for of and by the local people of Europe: Revitalising European Democracies by the re-introduction of Public Sphere in local society.

The binding factor of the European Union's diverse nations is their practice of democracy. However, recently the EU has been dealing with the rising power of populism, increasing polarization and strong bubble forming; all leading to a weakening practice of local, national and union scale democracies. An important factor in this is the lacking...

Interweaving and enriching digital music collections for scholarship, performance, and enjoyment

The turn toward the digital has opened up previously difficult to access musical materials to wider musicological scholarship. Digital repositories provide access to publicly licensed score images, score encodings, textual resources, audiovisual recordings, and music metadata. While each repository reveals rich information for scholarly...

From Fearscapes to Public Spaces: A New Dialogue Between the Citizens & Their Democratic Public Domain

Fear as one of the earliest survival mechanisms of humankind has significant effects on how people lived in cities since ancient times. Today fear is embedded in the physical characteristics of the urban space and how it is perceived by its inhabitants. It transforms the spatial behaviors of the contemporary citizens into introverted spatial...

Engaging Socio-Spatial Fragmentation Through Public Domain: Gated Communities in the Greater Metropolitan Area, San Jose, Costa Rica

Gated communities exist in most urbanized contexts around the world and San José, Costa Rica is not the exception. Following the discourse of insecurity and the claim of building community with-in the confinement of the gates, new developments are constructed with a peripheral wall. As gated communities diversify to all available markets they...

Redesigning the Van Gendthallen into a public domain

Preliminary research on the essence of the (changing) public domain (of Amsterdam) and characteristics of 'successful public space'. Please ask for final version if desired.

The place where stranger become neighbors: Community building in urban village in transitional period

Reclaiming Istanbul: Reviving the Public Sphere Through Infrastructure

Since the introduction of the coffee houses, Istanbul gained an important element to form a public sphere. These places enhanced the forming of a public opinion which is a crucial aspect of a democratic society. In the Ottoman empire these places were even seen as a nest for the opposition. Nowadays public spaces are threatened by a...

Love your city! An interactive platform empowering citizens to turn the public domain into a participatory domain

In the past years, governments have recognized the potential of interactive technology to bridge the gap with citizens. The right tools and guidance could enhance citizenship and enable co-creation between citizens and (local) governments. However, this opportunity does not automatically lead to a participatory practice. In the current article,...

Los Angeles: The metropolis and five stages of modernity

‘the metropolis and five stages of modernity’ is an explorative research on contemporary ecologies and the historic (re)-emergence of public domain, infrastructure and urban form in Los Angeles

Rethinking Brussels Midi station area

The graduation project aims to lessen the social tension between the well-off and authoritarian and the poor and powerless, its frontier being Brussels Midi station area where a decline in authenticity and openness can be observed. Theses issues are addressed by acknowledging the effects immigrant cultural identities have on urban environments -...

Participation and Co-creation in the Public Domain

This master thesis report with the topic “participation and co-creation in the public domain”, represents the final project of the master Design for Interaction at the faculty Industrial Design Engineering, University of Technology Delft (TUDelft) and was executed for the STT Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends in The Hague (STT). The...

De transformatie van het Hollandse bouwblok in relatie tot het publieke domein: Model, regel en ideaal, The transformation of the Dutch urban block: model, rule and ideal

The research focuses on the transformation of the urban block in relation to the public realm of the two great Dutch cities Amsterdam and Rotterdam throughout the last 400 years. In order to analyse the process of transformation, Dutch urban blocks are selected that can be considered paradigmatic for different historical periods . The time span...