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Sensory urbanism and placemaking exploring virtual reality and the creation of place

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posted on 2019-01-01, 00:00 authored by Anastasia Globa, Rui Wang, Beau BezaBeau Beza
© 2019 and published by the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), Hong Kong. Sensory Urbanism is an experimental prototyping project exploring the potential of immersive Virtual Reality (VR) environments to support the incorporation of sensory and intangible aspects of place. The study investigates how sensory exploration of urban places can be integrated into decision making regarding the future of cities. In the past, numerous studies reported various sophisticated ‘livability’ measures, deeming to determine what makes a city a great place to live in. While a part of these measures can be quantified and be represented as text, graphs or images, most of the qualitative aspects of place are inherently abstract and sensory. These aspects have to be experienced to be understood and therefore they are extremely difficult to communicate using conventional representation means. The proposition explored in this study is that the increasing ubiquity of VR and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies can provide new opportunities to engage with the multi-sensory and temporal aspects of urban place. A mixed media approach was adopted, tapping into a temporal dimension as well as visual, aural and kinesthetic range of human senses. The paper reports on the development of the VR sensory urbanism prototype and the initial pilot study that demonstrated the proof-of-concept.

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Event

Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia. Conference (24th : 2019 : Wellington, New Zealand)

Volume

2

Pagination

737 - 746

Publisher

CAADRIA

Location

Wellington, New Zealand

Place of publication

[Wellington, New Zealand]

Start date

2019-04-15

End date

2019-04-18

ISBN-13

9789887891727

Language

eng

Publication classification

E1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2019, CAADRIA

Editor/Contributor(s)

M Haeusler, M Schnabel, T Fukuda

Title of proceedings

CAADRIA 2019: Intelligent and Informed - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia

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