Session #121

– Paper Presentations –

The session welcomes papers that aim to reflect on the role of commoning practices in the creation of spaces of care and recreation. A tension that is useful for better grasping the notion of commons in the spaces of care and recreation is the interrogation regarding the understanding of commons as community or as public space. Particularly welcome are papers that aim to address climate justice and social justice simultaneously. At the core of the session is the role of care and recreation in re-thinking city branding and how advanced digital technologies such as the urban scale digital twins can contribute to such endeavours. Digital twins are digital replicas of physical entities. Their creation is based on the use of advanced technological applications, such as sensing, processing, and data transmission. Digital twins can be used to predict the characteristics of ‘leisurescapes’ and ‘carescapes’. Sustainable environmental design and regenerative design necessarily involve an exploration of how one can re-conceive the redistribution of wealth, land, and power. utilisation of urban scale digital twins by policymakers while deciding the branding strategies concerning the creation of sites destined for recreation and care. The session intends to shed light on the role of ‘leisurescapes’ and ‘carescapes’ in “city branding” and sustainable development. It also aims to examine how “city branding” can serve in establishing urban regeneration strategies, and how the design of spaces care and recreation can enhance the balancing of the tension between “city branding” and “city commoning”. At the centre of the session is the intention of The Care Manifesto to put care at the heart of the state and the economy, to shed light on the importance of relating caring places to the reclamation of public space, and to the search for ways of enhancing the idea of convivial city through design.