O mobiliário urbano open source: contribuições estratégicas para os espaços públicos

Abstract

Faced with the challenges faced by the contemporary city and the constant need to improve the quality of urban space, collaborative and social innovation strategies have been intensified. These techniques aim to achieve improvements through creative, autonomous processes and with the active participation of the population. The proposal of the open source urban furniture project is to allow, through a collaborative network formed by citizens, inspiration and support for the (re)activation of urban spaces through the construction of personalized urban furniture, easy to execute, easy to replicate and low cost. The objective of this research is to identify and understand the strategic contributions of open source urban furniture in the collective formulation of urban space and extract aspects of its process through four reference cases that exemplify the innovative practices and dismemberments of its development. To this end, a literature review was carried out that discussed the construction of contemporary public space, emphasizing the concepts, characteristics and applications of the typology. The analysis of the development of the typology, based on theoretical, paradigmatic and strategic references, revealed new possibilities and an innovative approach in the relationship between open source urban furniture and the collective formulation of urban space. This research concludes that the open source urban furniture strategy must be improved with the dissemination of practice, collaborative improvement and the promotion of appropriation by the user population, public and private organizations and collectives.