SUSTAINABILITY OF DIGITAL PUBLIC SPACES

Private and public digital domestic spaces

SUMMARY With the introduction of information and communication technologies into our homes and the different physical and communicative expressions this implies for our living spaces the concepts of being private and of being public becomes crucial. In this paper we introduce the design pattern language, developed by Christopher Alexander in the 1970s, in order to handle these problems systemat...

Digital Sustainability and Digital Repositories

The tasks associated with managing and backing up digital data are well known to IT managers, but the mere presence of the data stream is not the only criterion for preserving and maintaining digital content. Digital sustainability recognises that the continuity of digital information goes well beyond basic storing and managing of data and is integrated into the lifecycle of the information obj...

Digital Preservation through Digital Sustainability

The concept of digital sustainability introduces a holistic approach on how to maximize the benefits of digital resources for our society. The nine basic conditions for digital sustainability also provide a contribution to potential solutions to the challenges of digital preservation. Elaborateness, transparent structures, semantic data, distributed location, an open licensing regime, shared ta...

Sustainability of Public Debt

Interactive Digital Narratives: Bringing Meaningful Interaction Into Public Spaces

“What we have created [...] is an impersonal theatre of human interactions, and a paradox of isolation in the midst of visual transparency” Sennett, R. (1986) The fall of public man This dissertation analyses the potential of digital interactive narratives in bringing back meaningful interaction to public spaces. In the context of this research, a definition of meaningful interaction is given a...