Cultural districts strengthen our cities and communities and support the development of thriving places and people. Support for cultural districts is a high-return investment as their value is immense, multi-layered and far-reaching. However, while those benefits are embraced by many, not all believe it. Increasingly,…

From Digital Artivism to the Collective Care of Social Art in Public Space Contemporary mobile media affords new insights into social and creative practices while expanding our understanding of what kinds of public space matter. With the continual rise of the social in contemporary art which sees relationships as…

Crafting MEL for Youth-Led Placemaking in Cross-Country Programmes Urban youth-led placemaking programs present unique challenges in monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) due to the diverse socio-political and cultural contexts in which they operate. Standardized evaluation frameworks often struggle to accom…

The Centre on African Public Spaces connects key actors across different spaces and communities in Africa to learn from and build with each other. At its core, CAPS creates and hosts locally-informed content to help expand and advance our collective understanding of public spaces in African cities. Initially establishe…

Public spaces are vital for the dynamic social functions of public life of diverse user groups. They provide areas for social encounter, recreation (including work, play and study), shelter needs and other forms of community engagement. Officially, they are defined as “areas that are publicly owned, intended for public…

With the current exponential growth in the sector of Spatial Data Technology and Mixed Reality display devises we experience an increasing overlap of the physical and digital world. Next to making data spatially visible the attempt is to connect digital information with physical properties. Over the past years a…