Public Space Design
Gamze Dane | Eindhoven University of Technology
Experiencing the City: Public Spaces
Due to the urbanization of our living environment, the livability, health, and quality of life of city residents are under pressure. This creates a challenge of designing healthy cities, especially regarding the public realm. Dr. Gamze Dane works at the intersection of complex interactions between citizens, technology, and artefacts. In her view, to enable sustainable urban transformations, cities must be seen as socio-technical systems, and decision-making processes must be tackled with a citizen-centric and data-driven approach using digital tools and (big) data. She’ll talk about their recent research in two medium-sized cities in the Netherlands, Eindhoven and 's-Hertogenbosch. Together with her colleagues, she investigated how citizens experience the city and to what extent it contributes to their momentary and long-term subjective well-being. The findings create a basis for designers and policy makers to improve existing public spaces or to design new ones. The combination of digital tools and citizen science methods aims to support urban transformation processes and to understand and predict citizens' behavior, opinions, and experiences about urban interventions.
Dr. Gamze Dane works as an Assistant Professor of Digital Urban Development at the Department of Built Environment at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and has been one of the principal investigators of the Digital City Program of Urban Development Initiative (UDI) since 2020. In her transdisciplinary research, she connects her different expertise such as decision support systems in urban planning, human-environment interaction, GIS and data analysis in collaboration with citizens, SMEs, NGOs and European city authorities, such as Bologna, Eindhoven, Helmond, Lisbon and Skopje.
