Remote Places, Public Spaces

The SMOTIES network is a partnership of ten design universities,research centers, creative agencies, and national associations. Eachpartner selected a small and remote place in their country to benefitfrom the design of cultural and creative regenerations within publicspaces and in collaboration with local stakeholders.

The projectis part of the Human Cities network, a platform for interdisciplinaryexchange, examining and acting to improve the livability of indoor andoutdoor public spaces to incubate innovative processes for socialcohesion through participatory design.

With contributions by

Michael Dumiak, Independent reporter and editor

Valentina Auricchio PhD, associate professor, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano

Elisa BertolottiPhD, assistant professor of　Communication Design, Art and DesignDepartment, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Madeira

Beatriz Bonilla Berrocal, PhD candidate, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano

Helen CharoupiaResearcher, Department of　Product and Systems Design Engineering withinComplex Systems and Service Design Lab, University of the Aegean

Alexandra Coutsoucos, Research fellow, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano

Annalinda De Rosa PhD, researcher, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano

Davide Fassi PhD, full professor, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano

Susana Gonzaga PhD, assistant professor, Art and Design Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Madeira

Nina Gorsič,Architect and researcher, urban renewal, cultural heritage andaccessibility, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia

Frank van Hasselt, Chief executive, Clear Village

Astrid Lelarge,Historian of urban planning, Alternance Architecture and UrbanPlanning, assistant professor, Faculty of Planning and Design,Agricultural University of Iceland

Vanessa Monna, Post-doc research fellow, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano

Chiara Nifosì, PhD, assistant professor of　Urban Planning, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano

Matej Niksič, Architect, urban planner, lecturer in urban design, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia

Cristina Renzoni, PhD, associate professor of Urban Planning, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano

Anwar Samara, Student of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana

Noemi Satta, Independent consultant and expert in cultural innovation and strategic and participatory planning

Isabelle Vérilhac, Strategic designer, founder of Design With Isabelle