Multisensory urban art parks (MUAP)
- Autores: Juan Manuel Ros García, Sara Zaldívar Incinillas
- Localización: EESAP15 International Conference 2024, 22-23 October Donostia-San Sebastián: Proceedings book, 2025, ISBN 978-84-9082-982-0, págs. 108-119
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Since the recent environmental events following the global social and health emergency caused by COVID-19, the current state of research on increasing the quality of life of citizens has become a priority in order to respond to the set of sustainable strategic conditions that must be met in general in favour of the necessary urban regeneration associated with the improvement of the living environment. Within this context, it is accepted that the presence of urban art in the public space of the city is beneficial for the integral progress of the community according to the variables of what is statistically known as quality of life. Urban art is known to have a significant impact on public space and plays a crucial role in the transformation and regeneration of cities as an expression of cultural diversity, social change and as a catalyst for social interactions in a given place. In this sense, it is acknowledged that the presence of urban art in the public space of the city positively influences the improvement of the quality of life of the population. However, it is necessary to approach urban art under innovative modalities that ensure the successful fulfilment of favourable effects for the community beyond widespread muralism, outdoor sculptural exhibitions or performative pieces.
In this way, the design of a new urban art product conceived from the microurbanism called Multisensory Urban Art Parks (MUAPs) is presented. Therefore, this project elaborates in the form of physical support an interdisciplinary dialogue between architecture, sociology, environmental psychology and urban art present in the city, around singular scenarios, public spaces in the city in relation to the corresponding collaborative processes of encounter and social cohesion. From a practical point of view, the success or positive effect of urban art in the city will be to the extent that it exerts a demonstrable improvement in the value of quality of life as it is known. The Multisensory Urban Art Parks (MUAPs) arise with the idea of consciously activating the public space of the city in a positive and visual way, and offering an urban environment that fulfils all the required conditions of social value, especially through making the intervention of urban art present as a protagonist element among all the diversity of its functional characteristics, which personalise it for each urban location.
The Multisensory Urban Art Parks (MUAPs) demonstrate a modular plug-in system of different areas and features, with an industrialisable and constructively prefabricated character that integrates the natural, capable of stimulating the perception of the senses and cognitive abilities. The concept encompasses an aggregate set of elements, properties and functionalities related to sustainable environmental comfort, accessibility, inclusiveness and safe space. It is hoped that the implementation of these models of Multisensory Urban Art Parks (MUAPs) will ensure the improvement of the quality of life of the population, intentionally acting on the determining factors that are present in the different dimensions and statistical reference indices.