The Virtual Culture House – Shaping the Identity of a Public Knowledge Institution
Paper i proceeding, 2015
In this paper, we will discuss how a virtual platform can be used in order
to explore communication forms for stakeholders in the planning process
of public knowledge institutions. The paper presents the Virtual Culture
House, an attempt to stimulate the communication among stakeholders
and users of a future culture house. The project is cooperation between
Chalmers University of Technology and the municipality of Lundby in
Sweden, and aims to find new ways of complementing the traditional
architectural visualizations and public hearings for engaging citizens in
the development process of public knowledge institutions. The
contribution of this paper is two-fold; firstly it presents a virtual platform
based on activities to complement the traditional methods for involving
stakeholders in the development process of public knowledge
institutions, and secondly, it introduces visitors, citizens, contributors
and officials as stakeholders on equal ground, and claim that such a
dialogical tool can support user involvement and participation and
stimulate both staged activities and self-motivated activities. The Virtual
Culture House forms, together with the physical local community, an
activity-based physical-digital space that shapes the identity of the
future physical culture house.
Public knowledge institution
user involvement