Abstract
While the notion of place has been discussed exhaustively within the field of interaction design, the idea of Placemaking or creation of places is yet to receive attention. Placemaking is an established approach used by disciplines, such as, Urban Planning, Urban Design, Landscape architecture and Architecture, to create public places that people want to live and work in. So far, various approaches to Placemaking have been largely limited to the above-mentioned fields. Drawing on evaluation of four interaction design projects (carried out by the author and by his students under his tutelage) and on author’s extensive experience of designing novel interactive artefacts for public places, it is pointed out that interactive artefacts, due to their novel nature, may have the potential to contribute to the process of Placemaking. The chapter concludes by arguing for deeper examination of the field of interaction design for its potential to contribute to the process of Placemaking.
It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.
William H. Whyte
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The author would like to thank colleagues at the University of Limerick, Ireland who worked with him on the Shared Worlds project and former students of Interactive Media course, University of Limerick, Ireland who enthusiastically opted for the Interactive media in public spaces elective and developed the design concepts included in this paper.
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Deshpande, P. (2016). On Potential Application of Interaction Design for Placemaking. In: Dalton, N., Schnädelbach, H., Wiberg, M., Varoudis, T. (eds) Architecture and Interaction. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30028-3_15
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