1st Edition
Public Spaces and the Politics of Citizen Participation
Foreword: What democracy, what world, do we want to live in together?
Jim Dratwa
Preface
Anna Paola Quaglia and Ângela Guimarães Pereira
Chapter 1. Introduction. Situating democracy: Public spaces and citizen participation “down to earth”
Anna Paola Quaglia
Chapter 2. Everyday places as sites of civic engagement innovations: Learning from Taipei’s Nanji Rice and IMMA
Jeffrey Hou
PART I ON THE POLITICS OF URBAN PUBLIC SPACES
Chapter 3. The lake that fights back: Co-governance as a persisting form of deliberative democracy in the case of Lago Bullicante in Rome
Levente Polyak
Chapter 4. Palaces for the homeless: Reassessing the social function of grand public interiors in 2020s California
Mathieu Berger
Chapter 5. Public-private-people partnerships: The making of Museo Spazio Pubblico in Bologna
Luisa Bravo
PART II DEMOCRATISING THE PUBLIC SPHERE: STREET THEATRE, ART SPACES AND THE MAKING OF NEW PUBLICS
Chapter 6. Art and irreverence: Democratising public space through street theatre
Andrea Cornwall
Chapter 7. ‘Living Rooms’ of the city – How artists build public space
Kim Gurney
Chapter 8. The Queens Museum and the making of Corona Plaza, Queens
Miodrag Mitrašinović
PART III RECLAIMING THE DIGITAL: HACKERSPACES, CIVIC PLATFORMS AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
Chapter 9. Public values in digital public spaces
Max Kortlander and Marleen Stikker
Chapter 10. "Public” and “civic” spaces online: Design, participation and governance
Romain Badouard
Chapter 11. Exploratory sandboxes for science and technology engagements: Hackerspaces and citizen labs as “quasi-public” R&D infrastructures
Denisa Reshef Kera
Chapter 12. Epilogue: Theatre as public space: Towards a socially engaged art
Stefano Beghi
Conclusion
Ângela Guimarães Pereira
Biography
Anna Paola Quaglia is an independent researcher with a PhD in Urban Studies from the Polytechnic of Turin, with six years' experience at the European Commission’s Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy. Her current research and work explores the interplay between grassroots democracy and institutional participation, ethics in research and policy, theatre and arts-based methods.
Ângela Guimarães Pereira works at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. She leads the Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy. Post-normal science inspires her research and interests on different ways of knowing about environment and society, speculative “futuring” and citizen participation methods and institutionalisation(s) and embeddedness.
