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Mar 15, 2021

C3Places - open source eBook on making public spaces more responsive and inclusive

The Project C3Places is proud to announce the release of the e-book "Co-Creation of Inclusive Public Spaces" its corresponding platform MyC3Place both introduce and address the outcomes and results of the C3Places Project. The e-book shows pathways to increase the quality of public open spaces (squares, parks, green spaces) as a community’s service, reflecting through ICT the needs of different social groups.

Nov 16, 2020

C3Places Project at the ENCORE 2020 (4th Building Conservation and Rehabilitation Meeting, LNEC, Lisbon, November 3-6, 2020.

The C3Places Project was one of the supporters of the ENCORE 2020, which was organised by LNEC in Lisbon. Within this scope the Lisbon team presented with two papers: "MENEZES, Marluci; BATISTA, Joana Solipa; SMANIOTTO COSTA, Carlos (2020): Creating public space with teenagers: Co-creative ideas for a square in front of the school"and "MENEZES, Marluci (2020): Creating environmental and heritage awareness: Tile as a co-creative opportunity to rehabilitate public space". The papers are published in Portuguese and can be found correspondingly at pages pp. 1007-1018 and 1019-1022 in the Livro de Atas do ENCORE 2020 - 4º Encontro de Conservação e Reabilitação de Edifícios, Lisboa, LNEC, 3-6 de novembro. ISBN 978-972-49-2313-0. DOI: 10.34638/yzys-hn57. Soon also available from this site.

Oct 27, 2020

New article published "Digitally Supported Co-creation within Public Open Space Development Process: Experiences from the C3Places Project and Potential for Future Urban Practice"

The Ljubljana team just published in the Journal Planning Practice & Research an analysis on the experiences of C3Places with digital supported co-creation processes. Žlender, Vita, Šuklje Erjavec, Ina & Goličnik Marušić, Barbara (2020). Digitally Supported Co-creation within Public Open Space Development Process: Experiences from the C3Places Project and Potential for Future Urban Practice, Planning Practice & Research, DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2020.1829286

Sep 08, 2020

Exploitation Plan available

C3Places makes its Explotation Plan (Deliverable 6.3) public! This Exploitation Plan details the ways in which the project partners and targeted stakeholders can benefit from the project results. It provides information on the results from the project, how these may be extended and exploited in the future and what impact can they make outside the project network. All project reports can be seen at outcomes. Good reading!

Nov 18, 2019

Aelita Skaržauskienė (Vilnius) participated in the World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders - Durban - 11-15 Nov, 2o19

Aelita Skaržauskienė (Professor of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University) talked about the Digital Co-creation Index developed by the C3Places Project in the World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders, convened by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) in Durban/south Africa. The Digital Co-creation Index aims to facilitate the evaluation of co-creation processes in the design of attractive, inclusive and responsive public open spaces. The applicability of the Digital Co-creation Index was illustrated with the evaluation results of four C3Places Living Labs: Aukštamiestis Living Lab (Vilnius), Alvalade Living Lab (Lisbon), Città Studi Living Lab (Milano) and Zuid Park Living Lab (Ghent). The full programme of the World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders is available at https://www.durban2019.uclg.org/sites/default/files/enPROGRAMME_det.pdf

Nov 05, 2019

C3Places at the ”Urban Transitions Pathways Symposium 2019: After Urban Living Labs?”

Carlos Smaniotto Costa, coordinator of the European Project C3Places, participated on 21 & 22 October 2019 in Maastricht/NL in the “Urban Transitions Pathways Symposium 2019: After Urban Living Labs?”. This symposium is part of a series of events organized by JPI UrbanEurope - the financial backer of C3Places Project - with the aim of evaluating experiences and reflecting the lessons learned in the living labs of the various projects funded by JPI - UrbanEurope, and also to define new pathways for JPI UrbanEurope to respond to the challenges of Horizon Europe Framework. More at https://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/news/outcomes-from-the-urban-transitions-pathway-symposium-2019-in-maastricht/

Oct 28, 2019

C3Places member Marluci Menezes provides expertise on public spaces

Marluci Menezes of LNEC.pt is contributing with her expertise to the citizens' movement to transform Martim Moniz Square in Lisbon into a public green space instead of a privately owned commercial centre with over forty stores. Read the testimonial of Marluci and others at: www.jardimartimoniz.pt/accoes/especialistas/

Aug 26, 2019

Lisbon: Analysing the spatial practices of teenage students

As part of the case study in Lisbon, the C3Places Project organised in the period of May 27th to 30th, 2019 four sessions of public space design in the Secondary School Padre Antonio Vieira, in Alvalade. In order to boost awareness and to call the attention of all students to the workshop sessions, the Project team posed some questions about teenage students’ spatial practices in a fun and informal way. A board called "Tear de Ideas" (Portuguese for loom of ideas) was placed in the school atrium containing seven multiple choice questions displayed in columns. For each school grade different coloured woollen yarn hang next to the questions; to answer the questions the students wrapped the yarn around the corresponding nail. The results of the workshop are being analysed by the project team and will be discussed in the next partners’ project meeting to take place from September 17th to 19th, in Milano. Further information about the Project can be seen at www.c3places.eu

Jul 19, 2019

Inês Almeida presented on 05/07/2019 C3Places at the 9th Encontro de Investigadores do CeiED

The "Encontro de Investigadores" (Researchers Meeting) of CeiED is an annual event where the research programmes and projects of the Universidade Lusófona/CeiED are discussed. Here is the poster used to support the discussion.

Feb 28, 2019

Next C3Places Meeting will be in Lisbon - 21 to 23 May 2019

The next C3Places partners' meeting will be held from May 21 to 23, 2019 at the Lusófona Campus (Campo Grande 376) in Lisbon. Further details will be provided soon!

Nov 20, 2018

International Conference Smatness – between discourse and practice - Eindhoven 15-17 November 2018

Carlos Smaniotto Costa participated between 15 - 17 November 2018 in the 15th AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association) International Conference organized by the Department of the Built Environment of the Technical University of Eindhoven / The Netherlands. Centred on "Smatness – between discourse and practice" the conference was a forum to update on implications of data to build more sustainable and people-centred cities. Backed by CeiED's international projects C3Places - using ICT for Co-Creation of Inclusive Public Places (H2020 / JPI UrbanEurope, www.c3places.eu) and Cyberparks - Fostering knowledge about the relationship between Information and Communication Technologies and Public Spaces (www.cyberparks-project.eu), Carlos Smaniotto organised and chaired jointly with Dr Georgios Artopoulos, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia / Cyprus, the session Accessing Data Analytics: Urban Commons as City Smartness which attracted great interest of participants. The abstracts are available at https://www.smartness-discoursepractice.org/sessions.

Oct 17, 2018

Project CyberParks is releasing a book of ideas on the use of ICT to contribute to spatial practices

Newly Released: Hybrid Heritagescapes as Urban Commons in Mediterranean Cities: accessing the deep-rooted spatial interfaces of cities This publication presents the discussions that took place during the International Training School “Hybrid Heritagescapes as Urban Commons in Mediterranean Cities: accessing the deep-rooted spatial interfaces of cities”, convened at The Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center of the Cyprus Institute, in Nicosia, organised within the COST Action TU1306 CyberParks (www.cyberparks-project.eu). The diferente chapters explore how ICT and interactive narratives can contribute with creative practices of using the built heritage of Mediterranean cities for the reactivation of neglected urban spaces through playful engagement and storytelling. Available at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1981237178/ref=sr_1_4

Sep 25, 2018

Os Projetos C3Places & CyberParks estão presentes na Noite Europeia dos Investigadores | 28 de Setembro

Ciência na cidade é o tema para a Noite Europeia dos Investigadores de 2018, o qual pretende aproximar investigadores e sociedade em atividades preparatórias no dia 28 de setembro. Os Projetos C3Places e CyberParks - ambos coordenados pela Universidade Lusófona/CeiED estão presentes apresentando as últimas novidades no eixo - espaço público, pessoas e tecnologia. Visite-nos no espaço: Claustro / MUHNAC Piso 0

Sep 25, 2018

The third international meeting of the C3Places Project | Ljubljana | 17 - 19 September 2018

The third international meeting of C3Places took place in Ljubljana / Slovenia from 17 to 19 September and was organised by the Project partner UIRS (www.uirs.si). Besides the discussion on the progress made, two major topics dominated the agenda: The first one was the issue with the Italian partners, which after more than one year since the Project begin still do not have a valid contract ensuring the financing by the Italian National Funding Agency. Having all partners able to properly work central is issue in a Project, which based on cooperation and exchange of specific expertise, the tasks cannot be covered in the same dimension by other partners. The present situation is also limiting the generation of data, since the case study planned for Milano could not be implemented yet. The lack of planned outcomes and the too many constraints are major issues the Project has to handle, then a sustainable solution for this fully disappointing situation is very unpredictable.
The second major issue of the meeting was the development of a Business and Exploitation Plan – a central element required by H2020 / JPI UrbanEurope Programmes. In a session coordinated by Dr Monika Mačiulienė of the Lab for Social Technologies, Mykolas Romeris University (www.mruni.eu/en) (Vilnius / Lithuania) a first draft has been elaborated. A Business Plan is a very delicate issue for a project dedicated to the development of a common good - as the case of urban public spaces. This first draft is being internally further discussed, its delivery is planned for October 2019.
The next project meeting is scheduled for 21 to 23 May 2019 in Milano/Italy.

Jul 25, 2018

C3Places is launching a call for book chapters on co-creation of public open spaces

The Project is interested in experiences (good and bad) of getting people involved in the production of public open spaces. The call is available here.

The book is to be published by Lusófona University Press (Lisbon) and CeiED - Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development within the series Territory and Culture Studies (http://www.ceied.ulusofona.pt/en/series-culture-and-territory).

Jul 24, 2018

The first case report from Lisbon is available! (in Portuguese)

Foi publicado pelo Projeto C3Places - o uso de tecnologias digitais para a cocriação de espaços públicos inclusivos (Horizonte 2020/JPI UrbanEurope Agreement no. 693443) o relatório preliminar sobre o Estudo de Caso de Lisboa: Adolescentes e Cocriação do Espaço Público. O relatório apresenta os objetivos do projeto e do estudo de caso em Lisboa, desenvolvido em colaboração entre a Universidade Lusófona/CeiED e o LNEC, e descreve a estrutura, metodologia aplicada, resultados preliminares e problemas enfrentados no desenvolvimento e operacionalização, no âmbito do estudo de caso, de Oficinas de Urbanismo com adolescentes da Escola Secundária Padre António Vieira (ESPAV) localizada no bairro de Alvalade.
https://c3places.eu/publications

May 30, 2018

Upcoming Symposium on Urban Sound in Ghent

URBAN SOUND SYMPOSIUM
April 3-5, 2019 in Ghent, Belgium
https://urban-sound-symposium.org/

Dec 19, 2017

Launched: call for industrial partners

The project C3PLACES launches the call for IT companies (startups), private (groups of) software developers, co-working hubs, household innovators, artist, etc., to offer their products, services and concepts to be introduced and tested in LIVING LABS of the project partners in Lisbon (Portugal), Milan (Italy), Vilnius (Lithuania) and Ghent (Belgium).

Dec 10, 2017