Art in Urban Spaces

Mehrdad Karimimoshaver, Bahare Eris, Farshid Aram and Amir Mosavi
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Mehrdad Karimimoshaver: Department of Architecture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan 94171-71946, Iran
Bahare Eris: Department of Architecture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan 94171-71946, Iran
Farshid Aram: Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid-UPM, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Amir Mosavi: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 10, 1-19

Abstract: This study investigates the effect of art on promoting the meaning of the urban space. After considering the semantic dimension of the urban space and the mechanism of transferring the meanings of art through the views of experts, a model is presented for examining the art’s cooperation in promoting urban space meaning. In the first stage, the categories of space meanings influenced by art were extracted using the qualitative method of interpretative phenomenological analysis, and by examining 61 in-depth interviews in 6 urban spaces eligible for urban art in Tehran. In the second stage, these categories were surveyed in these spaces through 600 questionnaires after converting to the questionnaire items. Based on the results, “experience and perception capability”, “social participation”, and “relationship with context” were the main themes of the semantic relationships between art and urban space. Further, the lower scores related to the theme of “social participation” in the quantitative investigations indicate that this theme was weaker than the other themes in promoting the meaning of the urban space through the art in the selected urban spaces.

Keywords: urban development; urban space; urban design; aesthetics; art; built environment; perception; interpretative phenomenological analysis; sustainable urban development; social data; urban planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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