Public Spaces as Knowledgescapes: Understanding the Relationship between the Built Environment and Creative Encounters at Dutch University Campuses and Science Parks

Autor: Isabelle Maciel de Brito Soares, Claudia Yamu, Gerd Weitkamp
Přispěvatelé: Urban and Regional Studies Institute
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Universities
INNOVATION
Parks
Recreational

Health
Toxicology and Mutagenesis

media_common.quotation_subject
Sense of community
PLACE
0211 other engineering and technologies
Sense of place
lcsh:Medicine
02 engineering and technology
AFFORDANCES
010501 environmental sciences
spatial affordances for creativity
01 natural sciences
public space
urban design
Article
Creativity
Public space
Residence Characteristics
Tacit knowledge
Humans
Sociology
Built Environment
Cities
PARTICIPATION GIS PPGIS
university campus
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Built environment
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
media_common
business.industry
science park
lcsh:R
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health

Urban design
021107 urban & regional planning
Public relations
public participatory geographic information system (PPGIS)
spatial affordances for creativity

Knowledge sharing
public participatory geographic information system (PPGIS)
Environment Design
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION-SYSTEMS
business
volunteered geographic information (VGI)
Zdroj: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 7421, p 7421 (2020)
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume 17
Issue 20
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(20):7421. MDPI AG
ISSN: 1661-7827
1660-4601
Popis: The success of university campuses depends on the interrelations between creative encounters and the built environment, conceptualised here as spatial affordances for creativity. Such an interface plays a fundamental role in interactions for knowledge sharing and the exchange of ideas on campus. Due to campus public spaces generally being considered as the leftovers between buildings and classrooms, undermanaged, and overlooked, little is known about the extent to which this built environment enables or inhibits creative encounters in such spaces. The inner-city campuses and science parks (SPs) of Amsterdam and Utrecht, the case-studies of this research, differ in terms of their location relative to the city, their masterplan typologies and the arrangement of buildings. However, they are similar in terms of the aforementioned issues of public spaces. The novelty of this research is the attempt to overcome such issues using an innovative mixed-methods approach that tests the &lsquo
spatial affordances for creativity&rsquo
with empirical data collection and analysis. This raises the importance of mapping, quantifying and analysing the spatial distribution of momentary perceptions, experiences, and feelings of people with methods such as volunteered geographic information (VGI). The results show that proximity between multiple urban functions and physical features, such as parks, café
s and urban seating are important when it comes to explaining the high frequency of creative encounters between people. Urban designers of campuses can use the applied method as a tool to plan and design attractive public spaces that provide creativity through the transfer of tacit knowledge, social well-being, positive momentary perceptions, sense of community, and a sense of place.
Databáze: OpenAIRE