Do sustainability measures constrain urban design creativity?

Creativity Management in Sustainability Networks

In this contribution recycling networks are used as a starting point for the concept of sustainability networks. Those are complex systems, defined as ‘systems of voluntary but organized cooperation among different stakeholders with the common vision of sustainable development of society within a certain region’. In order to develop and manage such complex systems, creative action will be requi...

Can Urban Design Play a Role in Urban Sustainability? International developments / local challenges

There is widespread recognition today that we are living in a period of profound technological, social, economic and political change, and that this process of change is accelerating. Yet, there is less certainty about the nature and meaning of these changes—whether they should be regulated or liberalized, supported or resisted— and the kind of world they are leading to. Despite these uncertai...

Sustainability and Creativity Methods: Agents of Change in Teaching the Arch-Design Studio

The aim of this paper is to explore conventional methods of teaching the arch-design studio withideas of sustainability and creativity as agents of change. If this is realised, it means the students of architecture canbe grounded in designing with sustainability and creativity ideas and can be professionals that design and build withideas of creativity and sustainability. So, there are real bui...

Fostering Collaborative Creativity in Learning about Urban Sustainability through Digital Storytelling

In this paper we suggest that there is a rich learning potential in addressing complex and elusive interdisciplinary concepts and issues, such as that of urban sustainability, with the use of learning approaches and digital media that foster collaborative creativity in the design of tangible digital artifacts. We identify such potential in digital storytelling and describe the research design o...

URBAN DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY Final Report of the Working Group on Urban Design for Sustainability to the European Union Expert Group on the Urban Environment