A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal
Key factors to enhance efficacy of 3D digital environments for transformative landscape and urban planning
Authors: Grêt-Regamey Adrienne, Fagerholm Nora
Publisher: Elsevier
Publication year: 2024
Journal: Landscape and Urban Planning
Journal name in source: Landscape and Urban Planning
Article number: 104978
Volume: 244
ISSN: 0169-2046
eISSN: 1872-6062
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104978
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104978
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/386867148
The unprecedented expansion of digital technologies has led to a rapid increase in the development and application of 3D digital environments for landscape and urban planning in the past two decades. Considering the significant challenges in guiding human societies towards sustainability, these technologies must not only assist decision-makers in adapting to changes but promote fast, transformative shifts in the relationship between human societies and nature. Based on a set of global exemplars, this Perspective Essay outlines six key factors that can enhance efficacy of 3D digital environments to guide knowledge-informed landscape and urban planning. We call for (1) explicitly representing dynamic interplay between the social, ecological, and technical systems, (2) exploring the integration of design with simulation models to address cross-scale dynamics, (3) developing features to foster imagination, (4) employing multisensory stimuli to encourage profound changes in environmentally and socially sustainable behavior, (5) tailoring the incorporation of active sensing by and with non-experts into 3D digital environments to better acknowledge indigenous and local knowledge systems, and finally, (6) carrying out a usability evaluation to facilitate participation and collaboration in an efficient co-creation process. We conclude by recommending the establishment of a collaborative knowledge platform that unites researchers, developers, and stakeholders for stimulating social-ecological-technological system thinking in the development of 3D digital environments and harnessing the technological advancements to accelerate and drive the needed transformative change within urban and landscape planning.
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