Smart Thinking on Co-Creation and Engagement: Searchlight on Underground Built Heritage
Carlos Smaniotto Costa,
Rolando Volzone,
Tatiana Ruchinskaya,
Maria del Carmen Solano Báez,
Marluci Menezes,
Müge Akkar Ercan,
Annalisa Rollandi
Affiliations
Carlos Smaniotto Costa
Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Universidade Lusófona, Campo Grande, 376, 1749-024 Lisbon, Portugal
Rolando Volzone
Department of Architecture and Urbanism, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Av. das Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal
Tatiana Ruchinskaya
TVR DESIGN CONSULTANCY, 6 Green Street, Willingham, Cambridgeshire CB24 5JA, UK
Maria del Carmen Solano Báez
Department of Applied Economics, University of Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Marluci Menezes
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Av. Brasil, 101, 1700-066 Lisboa, Portugal
Müge Akkar Ercan
Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University, Dumlupınar Bulvarı, 1, Ankara 06800, Turkey
Annalisa Rollandi
Department of Environment Constructions and Design, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Via Flora Ruchat-Roncati, 15, 6850 Mendrisio, Switzerland
This paper aims to explore public participation for activating underground built heritage (UBH). It describes and analyses practices of stakeholders’ engagement in different UBH assets, based on experiences gathered in the scope of the European COST Action ‘Underground4value’. It brings together five inspiring cases from Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, in which digital and mobile technologies were used as tools to improve community experiences in UBH. Thus, the paper discusses ‘smartness’ from the perspective of people and communities around cultural assets, where ‘smartness’ becomes a new connotation and a pathway to advance (local) knowledge and know-how. Therefore, this paper takes on the challenge to define a smart city as an ecosystem for people’s empowerment and participation, and, in particular, to explore social tools for creating new values in heritage placemaking—where sharing knowledge becomes a fundamental principle.
