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_id: '14114'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: It is widely accepted that digitalization, as a global megatrend and cross-cutting
    issue, has a significant impact on all aspects of urban development, including
    on Placemaking. Placemaking is commonly defined as the practice of shaping public
    spaces, giving them meaning, and fostering emotional connections with the citizens
    who frequent them. In the digital era, experimentation, co-creation, and design
    have expanded into digital spheres, including media facades, urban screens, urban
    media installations (Pavlaki , 2021 ) . Digital Placemaking, also known as hybrid
    placemaking, urban media or media architecture, brings together practitioners
    and researchers from various disciplines - such as architecture, urban planning,
    design, and art - to examine how the progressive development of physical spaces
    can be achieved through local digital technologies that deepen the connection
    between people and places , and enable broad public participation ( Hespanhol
    et al. , 2017). Currently, a main difficulty in the field is the dispersed discourse
    and terminology surrounding digital placemaking, which limits the development
    of shared knowledge across disciplines. To bridge the diverse scientific and artistic
    sources that do not yet exchange due to different incentives for creation and
    funding streams, the paper introduces a framework to structure both topics and
    forms of digital placemaking content. To obtain a framework of these fields, we
    evaluated a selection of 15 case studies from the last 10 years, including one
    interactive prototype developed and tested by the research team at OWL University.
    In addition to topics and form of content, the comparative analysis also includes
    type of digital intervention , type of public space, source, form of content ,
    developed by public/private entity, and objective of the interface. The variants
    in the categories derive from open coding and are complemented by findings from
    literature research. It was found that advertising and arts are widely established
    topics in digital elements in public spaces. Furthermore, the findings indicate
    that the visualization of data and publicly relevant information is growing in
    importance, driven by academia testing new technologies and public institutions
    (municipalities, public utility providers, etc.) using them to demonstrate transparency
    and being “digital”. However, it is debatable whether it serves as a token or
    offers real benefits to public discourse and better-informed citizens. To address
    the newly identified trend, the paper also examines how public data and information
    are communicated through digital interfaces and how they relate to closely discussed
    topics such as nudging and situated visualization. This framework can serve as
    a basis for adequately planning strategies for publicly-initiated digital placemaking,
    opening them up to artistic content, and, in general, enabling a fruitful exchange
    among different disciplines that digitally build public spaces.
author:
- first_name: Mareile
  full_name: Licht, Mareile
  id: '83590'
  last_name: Licht
  orcid: 0009-0001-2892-6767
- first_name: Mohamed Khaled
  full_name: Ashmawy, Mohamed Khaled
  id: '81286'
  last_name: Ashmawy
- first_name: Axel
  full_name: Häusler, Axel
  id: '61520'
  last_name: Häusler
  orcid: 0009-0001-8565-8199
citation:
  ama: Licht M, Ashmawy MK, Häusler A. Framework for Structuring Digital Placemaking
    Content by Form and Topic. <i>Inżynieria Mineralna Inżynieria Mineralna Polish
    Mineral Engineering Society</i>. 2026;2(1). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.29227/IM-2026-02-01-065">10.29227/IM-2026-02-01-065</a>
  apa: Licht, M., Ashmawy, M. K., &#38; Häusler, A. (2026). Framework for Structuring
    Digital Placemaking Content by Form and Topic. <i>Inżynieria Mineralna Inżynieria
    Mineralna Polish Mineral Engineering Society</i>, <i>2</i>(1). <a href="https://doi.org/10.29227/IM-2026-02-01-065">https://doi.org/10.29227/IM-2026-02-01-065</a>
  bjps: <b>Licht M, Ashmawy MK and Häusler A</b> (2026) Framework for Structuring
    Digital Placemaking Content by Form and Topic. <i>Inżynieria Mineralna Inżynieria
    Mineralna Polish Mineral Engineering Society</i> <b>2</b>.
  chicago: Licht, Mareile, Mohamed Khaled Ashmawy, and Axel Häusler. “Framework for
    Structuring Digital Placemaking Content by Form and Topic.” <i>Inżynieria Mineralna
    Inżynieria Mineralna Polish Mineral Engineering Society</i> 2, no. 1 (2026). <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.29227/IM-2026-02-01-065">https://doi.org/10.29227/IM-2026-02-01-065</a>.
  chicago-de: Licht, Mareile, Mohamed Khaled Ashmawy und Axel Häusler. 2026. Framework
    for Structuring Digital Placemaking Content by Form and Topic. <i>Inżynieria Mineralna
    Inżynieria Mineralna Polish Mineral Engineering Society</i> 2, Nr. 1. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.29227/IM-2026-02-01-065">10.29227/IM-2026-02-01-065</a>,
    .
  din1505-2-1: '<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Licht, Mareile</span> ; <span
    style="font-variant:small-caps;">Ashmawy, Mohamed Khaled</span> ; <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Häusler,
    Axel</span>: Framework for Structuring Digital Placemaking Content by Form and
    Topic. In: <i>Inżynieria Mineralna Inżynieria Mineralna Polish Mineral Engineering
    Society</i> Bd. 2. Kraków, Polish Mineral Engineering Society (Polskie Towarzystwo
    Przeróbki Kopalin) (2026), Nr. 1'
  havard: M. Licht, M.K. Ashmawy, A. Häusler, Framework for Structuring Digital Placemaking
    Content by Form and Topic, Inżynieria Mineralna Inżynieria Mineralna Polish Mineral
    Engineering Society. 2 (2026).
  ieee: 'M. Licht, M. K. Ashmawy, and A. Häusler, “Framework for Structuring Digital
    Placemaking Content by Form and Topic,” <i>Inżynieria Mineralna Inżynieria Mineralna
    Polish Mineral Engineering Society</i>, vol. 2, no. 1, 2026, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.29227/IM-2026-02-01-065">10.29227/IM-2026-02-01-065</a>.'
  mla: Licht, Mareile, et al. “Framework for Structuring Digital Placemaking Content
    by Form and Topic.” <i>Inżynieria Mineralna Inżynieria Mineralna Polish Mineral
    Engineering Society</i>, vol. 2, no. 1, 2026, <a href="https://doi.org/10.29227/IM-2026-02-01-065">https://doi.org/10.29227/IM-2026-02-01-065</a>.
  short: M. Licht, M.K. Ashmawy, A. Häusler, Inżynieria Mineralna Inżynieria Mineralna
    Polish Mineral Engineering Society 2 (2026).
  ufg: '<b>Licht, Mareile/Ashmawy, Mohamed Khaled/Häusler, Axel</b>: Framework for
    Structuring Digital Placemaking Content by Form and Topic, in: <i>Inżynieria Mineralna
    Inżynieria Mineralna Polish Mineral Engineering Society</i> 2 (2026), H. 1.'
  van: Licht M, Ashmawy MK, Häusler A. Framework for Structuring Digital Placemaking
    Content by Form and Topic. Inżynieria Mineralna Inżynieria Mineralna Polish Mineral
    Engineering Society. 2026;2(1).
conference:
  end_date: 2026-09-04
  location: Ostrava
  name: 11th World Multidisciplinary Congress on Civil Engineering, Architecture,
    and Urban Planning (WMCCAU 2026)
  start_date: 2026-08-31
date_created: 2026-11-09T10:17:13Z
date_updated: 2026-11-09T14:47:31Z
department:
- _id: DEP1055
- _id: DEP1625
doi: 10.29227/IM-2026-02-01-065
intvolume: '         2'
issue: '1'
keyword:
- public space
- placemaking
- data visualization
- smart city
- governance
language:
- iso: eng
place: Kraków
publication: Inżynieria Mineralna Inżynieria Mineralna Polish Mineral Engineering
  Society
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 1640-4920
publication_status: published
publisher: Polish Mineral Engineering Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Przeróbki Kopalin)
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Framework for Structuring Digital Placemaking Content by Form and Topic
type: scientific_journal_article
user_id: '83781'
volume: 2
year: '2026'
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