DigitalXPlace

Digital placemaking, health & wellbeing and nature-based solutions: A systematic review and practice model

“…Some authors present digital placemaking as a subcategory of creative placemaking (Basaraba, 2021;Paquin, 2019;Stokes et al, 2018), understanding it is the application of media to creative placemakingdefined by Markusen and Gadwa (2014) as the use of arts, creative and cultural thinking to improve the interest of a place. However, most authors identify digital placemaking as an independent category that could be defined as the implementation of technology in these practices that enables communities to interact with hybrid digital-physical places (Foth, 2017b;Fredericks et al, 2018;Halegoua and Polson, 2021;Labayen and Gutierrez, 2021;Pavlovskaya, 2016;Toland et al, 2020;Wang, 2019).…”

“…Gulsrud et al (2018) employ Tuan's theory, (1977) and Williams' theory, (2014) on emotional attachment to a place, placemaking potential to create diverse identity spaces to understand the use of technology to create climate resilience. Toland et al (2020) re-evaluated the term digital placemaking, analysing the evolution of its definition to propose the term DigitalXPlace. Furthermore, scholars called for further research to understand sustainable ways of digital placemaking (Foth, 2017b) and detailed digital placemaking strategies that incorporate the community view and outcomes (Keegan, 2021).…”

Conjunctions of resilience and the Covid-19 crisis of the creative cultural industries

“…This is evident in the event's digital placemaking practice. Digital placemaking does not simply embrace technological adoption as an aesthetic veneer to buttress the actual event; it uses digital technology to impact the urban experiences of place, identity and belonging ( Toland et al, 2020 ). While the digital light-up's interactivity makes the event embodied and participatory, it is in its cultural somatics, a process of suturing technology, body, place and community together with the virtual information on the screen (digital Pink Dot) and the past actual information from the park (past Pink Dot), that produces the virtuality of the event and its experience of identity, place and belonging.…”

Digital Placemaking for Urban Regeneration: Identification of Historic Heritage Values in Taiwan and the Baltic States

“…The growth of public Wi-Fi service and smartphone usage enabled devices to reshape how we plan and design cities and public places; it has also led to the rise of the term "digital placemaking." Digital placemaking is an emerging area of research and practice that focuses on the integration of social media and digital technologies within placemaking (Toland et al, 2020). It boosts the social, cultural, environmental, and economic value of places and fosters deeper relationships between people and the places they inhabit (Morrison, 2020).…”