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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne
• Fagerholm, Nora

Titel

Key factors to enhance efficacy of 3D digital environments for transformative landscape and urban planning

Ist Teil von

• Landscape and urban planning, 2024-04, Vol.244, p.104978, Article 104978

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •Integrating human-environment interactions in 3D digital environments is essential to accelerate sustainability transformations.•Considering cross-scale spatial and temporal dynamics requires further development of point cloud technologies.•Using 3D digital environments to foster imagination demands caution regarding knowledge and certainty overstatements.•Immersive VR tools can help trigger radical changes through emotional responses to design proposals.•Scaling “deep” with 3D digital environments can be achieved by integrating active sensing by and with people. 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.