The term Citizen Science has been used in various contexts, but little effort has been made to provide a vision of it in regard to socio-spatial studies, which are at the core of the research group on Citizen Science in understanding and transforming the territory (CIDATE). The authors of this chapter represent widely diverse disciplines, including environmental engineering, economics, urban planning and design...
Na sociedade contemporânea, os espaços urbanos incorporam cada vez mais características multifuncionais, e devem, portanto, adquirir a capacidade de agregar pessoas, seus usos e experiências. A presente contribuição assenta numa abordagem multidisciplinar concernente aos rios sob pressão urbana, detentores de aspetos ecológicos estruturadores das paisagens urbanas. A pesquisa assenta-se sobre territórios distin...
The term Citizen Science has been used in various contexts, but little effort has been made to provide a vision of it in regard to socio-spatial studies, which are at the core of the research group on Citizen Science in understanding and transforming the territory (CIDATE). The authors of this chapter represent widely diverse disciplines, including environmental engineering, economics, urban planning and design...
Urban rivers are one of the most threatened ecosystems in the world, being the focus of neglect or costly restoration. It is therefore urgent to identify appropriate technical solutions that, associated with social innovations and collaborative planning approaches, can guide new ways of treating the water of rivers threatened by urban pressures – in particular in the context of climate change, biodiversity and ...
This e-book and correspondent platform MyC3Place present the collection of the outcomes carried out by the partners of the C3Places Project.It explores the new dynamics of open spaces as a trusted service for community and expands our understanding on how mediated public open spaces function, paying attention to stakeholders, local context and different social groups. The e-book shows how it's possible to incre...
While the remaining chapters in this book introduce and discuss a series of experiences in co-creation and participatory processes in the production of public spaces, this chapter intends to reflect on the appropriation and the production of public spaces from another aspect – that of the undesirables, those who are not wanted in the use of public spaces. By ‘undesirable’ is to be understood all those who, for ...
Todos os livros têm uma história. Esta obra coletiva tem a sua, como não podia deixar de ser. Nasceu de uma crítica de Carlos Alberto Torres que, enquanto mem bro da Comissão Externa de Acompanhamento e Aconselhamento do Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares em Educação e Desenvolvimento (CeiED), nos chamava a atenção para o limitado conhecimento mútuo que possuíamos sobre o trabalho, as preocupações científicas...
Every book has a story. This collective work has its own, as is only to be expected. It was born out of the criticism levelled by Carlos Alberto Torres, who, as member of the External Monitoring and Advisory Committee of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Education and Development (CeiED), called our attention to the limited knowledge each of us has on the work, scientific concerns, theoretical framewo...
This report provides in a relative condensed format the results of small-scale study undertaken in Lisbon during the Meeting of the CyberParks Project (www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/tud/Actions/TU1306). CyberParks is a COST Action coordinated by the Universidade Lusófona at the CeiED - Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development. The Project aims at creating a research platform on the relationshi...
Dando continuidade a uma tradição de 150 anos, a Alemanha vem sendo palco de diversas exposições de paisagismo, viveiros e arquitetura - cuja importância não está tanto na exposição em si, mas sim no impulso que geram para o desenvolvimento das cidades que as hospedam. Surgidas de exposições privadas, e organizadas por amantes de plantas, essas exposições expandiram-se continuamente até tornarem-se grandes expo...