Interactive design for responsive environments: placing people at the center of the design process

Public space is the meeting point where communities blend and mingle and where interaction, exchange and communication take place. An healthy public space is the celebration of diversity and the paradigm of democracy, enabling all sorts of expressions, uses and cultural manifestations. In contemporary societies public space has become a medium, a tool, an enabler, a place where everybody should feel included and have the possibility of personalizing, reclaiming and conquering it. At the same time, public space is the best platform for designers to think about the future of cities. It is the ideal framework for testing and prototyping new ideas and possibilities, and creating future scenarios that can then be shared, discussed, and debated. Public space should be the place where individual and societal freedom is most represented and by rethinking and reshaping it, designers are affecting people’s present and future lives.

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