COST Action Objectives

The primary objective of this COST Action is to analyze how placemaking activities re-imagine and reinvent public space and improve citizens’ involvement in urban planning.

It will also analyse the role and potential of digital tools to record, transform, produce and disseminate a citizens’ knowledge about the urban spaces throughout Europe’s cities.

Secondary Objectives

1. This Action aims to investigate existing (and envisioned) practices of placemaking, sharing of knowledge, developing a new agenda in placemaking based on the potential of digitization.

2. This Action focuses on questions related to the transfer of placemaking practices and knowledge via new media, and the role of digitization in sharing of local urban knowledges.

3. This Action developes new methods for studying the impact of digitization on local practices and activities aimed at citizens' participation and share in urban development and planning processes.Thus, the Action contributes to consolidating, developing and setting new agendas for the creative but fragmented field of interdisciplinary urban studies in Europe.

4. The Action investigates how digitization impacts urban placemaking processes of local communities and supports the urban local knowledge production in European cities. It will do so by coordinating and comparing a interdisciplinary selection of case studies of placemaking activities, connected to local knowledge production, are investigated throughout Europe.

5. This Action aims to go beyond the top-down analysis of the relation between local practices and urban governmentality,taking as its point of departure new theoretical insights that emphasize the importance and relevance of placemaking, citizens’ knowledge, and new media.

6. This Action provides theoretical frames and empirical data for models of integrative and participative European urban spaces.

7. This Action provides an open European network, a multidisciplinary team of urban researchers, planners, social scientists, art, architectural and urban historians, artists and representatives of the stakeholders (associated partners).

8. This Action provides communication of the research process and its various formats, such as workshops (organised by the WG´s) and training schools for senior researchers, young researchers and graduate students.

9. This Action provides a sustanaible digital platform (WG4). The target group of the platform are both local urban stakeholders, e.g. activists and NGOs, and professionals, such as municipalities.

10. This Action provides open access to the research results and data and develops an(open-source) digital platform with e-leraning material connected to the Action´s main goals.

11. This Action provides multiple stakeholder workshops (WG1, WG2, WG3, WG4).

12. This Action provides international summer school with local stakeholders (WG1).

13. This Action provides open access publications (WG1, WG2, WG3, WG4).

14. This Action provides short-term scientific missions, like publications on the website (WG1, WG2, WG3, WG4).

Specific Objectives

To achieve the main objective described, the following specific objectives shall be accomplished:

Research Coordination

This Action aims to investigate existing (and envisioned) practices of placemaking, sharing of knowledge, developing a new agenda in placemaking based on the potential of digitization.
This Action focuses on questions related to the transfer of placemaking practices and knowledge via new media, and the role of digitization in sharing of local urban knowledges.
This Action developes new methods for studying the impact of digitization on local practices and activities aimed at citizens' participation and share in urban development and planning processes.Thus, the Action contributes to consolidating, developing and setting new agendas for the creative but fragmented field of interdisciplinary urban studies in Europe.
The Action investigates how digitization impacts urban placemaking processes of local communities and supports the urban local knowledge production in European cities. It will do so by coordinating and comparing a interdisciplinary selection of case studies of placemaking activities, connected to local knowledge production, are investigated throughout Europe.
This Action aims to go beyond the top-down analysis of the relation between local practices and urban governmentality,taking as its point of departure new theoretical insights that emphasize the importance and
relevance of placemaking, citizens’ knowledge, and new media.

Capacity Building

This Action provides theoretical frames and empirical data for models of integrative and participative European urban spaces.
This Action provides an open European network, a multidisciplinary team of urban researchers, planners, social scientists, art, architectural and urban historians, artists and representatives of the stakeholders (associated partners).
This Action provides communication of the research process and its various formats, such as workshops (organised by the WG´s) and training schools for senior researchers, young researchers and graduate students.
This Action provides a sustanaible digital platform (WG4). The target group of the platform are both local urban stakeholders, e.g. activists and NGOs, and professionals, such as municipalities.
This Action provides open access to the research results and data and develops an(open-source) digital platform with e-leraning material connected to the Action´s main goals.
This Action provides multiple stakeholder workshops (WG1, WG2, WG3, WG4).
This Action provides international summer school with local stakeholders (WG1).
This Action provides open access publications (WG1, WG2, WG3, WG4).
This Action provides short-term scientific missions, like publications on the website (WG1, WG2, WG3, WG4).