Mapping Digital Co-Creation for Urban Communities and Public Places

Book Review: Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places

Urban Co-Creation: Envisioning New Digital Tools for Activism and Experimentation in the City

With this paper we seek to shed more light on the use of digital tools in support of urban forms of civic participation. We outline a multi-faceted approach to urban issues and review different approaches to activism in the city. Based on this, we sketch out new opportunities for design and invention in support of a range of participatory practices in the city. While urban developments and plan...

Towards Computational Co-Creation in Modding Communities

Large online repositories of player-generated game content are a popular component of modern interactive digital entertainment. These add-ons are typically referred to as ”mods”, and the communities of co-creators that coalesce around them ”modding communities”. We propose a method to augment these communities with computational agents that encourage creative submissions, which we define as tho...

Evaluating Age-Friendly City Indicators in Qazvin: Urban Open Spaces, Buildings and Public Places

Background As the population pyramid in Iran shifts to aging and the influence of environmental conditions on the elderly people, The need to pay attention to the foundations of well-being, security and comfort is felt more than ever.  Objective The present study aimed at evaluating the urban open spaces and public buildings/places of Qazvin city in Iran as indicators of an age-friendly city b...

Value Co-creation & Co-Innovation: Linking Networked Organisations & Customer Communities

Strategic networks such as Collaborative Networked Organisations (CNOs) and Virtual Customer Communities (VCCs) show a high potential as drivers of value co-creation and collaborative innovation in today’s Networking Era. Both look at the network structures as a source of jointly value creation and open innovation through access to new skills, knowledge, markets and technologies by sharing risk...