Urban Creativity
User Experience Online Conference
9, 10 and 11 July 2020
Confinement and deconfinement deal with Streets, places of absence and excess. Streets are the places where common values gather. Identities among many other are also represented by visual signs, public art, street art and graffiti. These are particularly visible marks and actions of use. There are ways for including users voice on projects, products, services, and places.
The gathered knowledge about these subjects is reaching a never seen significance in the world of today, the world of COVID19, BLM, Extinction Rebellion and more to come. Join our dialogue, on the online conference and trough our publications.
The gathered knowledge about these subjects is reaching a never seen significance in the world of today, the world of COVID19, BLM, Extinction Rebellion and more to come. Join our dialogue, on the online conference and trough our publications.
Conference topic's
Urban Creativity, Tactics & Activism
for addressing Global Changes
Since the first edition of UC in 2014, the environmental issues are a permanent concern, at different levels of detail, both in theory and practice. Because climate change unfold before our eyes, for the 2020 edition we decided to focus directly on the issue.
UN Climate Change Deputy Executive Secretary Ovais Sarmad called 2020 "a critical year for addressing climate change." Times we live with demagogue politicians, virus epidemics, communication warfare, economic impact and unpredictable social consequences.
What can UC do about it ?
Some ideas for discussion: Awareness, Strategies, Tactics and Activism
Awareness – How urban creativity, public art, graffiti, street art, actions or projects, user experience and research and participation methodologies, could help, for applied, educational, communication impact.
Strategies – Aim for 2030. Predicted or recommended steps that, the creative spontaneous phenomenons, associated professional practices, collective dynamic, should take in this decisive decade.
Tactics – Initiatives! What are and should be the initiatives, best practices, specific plans, resources needed. Where, “act locally think globally”? Who are the involved, the actors, individual, collective, anonymous, institutional?
Activism – Promoting social change, raising awareness. How the researchers can create the foundations, register the activities, and put it all in practice? Examples, references, best practices repositories, case studies.
