Manfredo Manfredini
Biographic Data
| ID | 7546453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manfredo Manfredini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manfredo |
| FAMILY NAME | Manfredini |
| SIGNATURE | MANFREDINI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5002-9501 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Futurible Heterotopias of Phygital Spectacle: Understanding How Digital Technologies Intensify Spatial Segregation in Quasi-Public Commercial Centres
In contemporary cities, the disruption caused by new consumption practices, most notably e-commerce, has intensified the creative destruction of shopping environments. A prominent reinvention of the extra-ordinary experience offered by hyper-consumption centres involves the phygital (physical + digital) augmentation of spectacle leveraging multireality and interaction technologies. This reinvention catalyses translocal, multilevel and asynchronou…
Third Places’ Counter-Practices: Understanding Shifting Boundaries Between Private and Public Space in Urban China
Rapid urbanisation in contemporary China has intensified pressures on private living environments, prompting domestic practices to increasingly unfold within third places, specifically privately owned commercial interiors. A representative example is the Starbucks coffeehouse, which explicitly positions itself as a “third place” through its “home away from home” model. This study examines how activities traditionally associated with the private h…
Urban Safety Via Digitally Augmented Relationality: Leveraging Gotong-Royong for Collaboration, Empathy, and Re-Enchantment in Indonesia’s Public Space
This article addresses urban safety issues, focusing on their relationship with the ongoing effective structural transformation of inborn instrumentalities of progressively vulnerable communities in the Global South. It responds to the United Nations' call for urgent action to reverse the negative trends towards the goals set with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by redefining urban safety as a crucial factor for the affirmation of soc…
(Semi-)immersive digital placemaking: A systematic literature review on augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality applications in placemaking
This article summarizes literature on state-of-the-art (semi-)immersive – augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) – games and applications in placemaking. Its methodology engages with PRISMA workflow, incorporating computational and qualitative analytic methods. Our findings reveal that while most digital tools share common placemaking goals, each (semi-)immersive technology excels in specific areas. AR Location-Based…
Affirmatively Reading Post-consumerism. Distributed Participatory Creativity and Creative Destruction of the Malled Metropolitan Centres of Auckland, New Zealand, during Covid-19 Lockdown
The impact of the progressive spatial financialisation of contemporary on the centres of public life has involved the privatisation of a relevant portion of their social, cultural, political and economic nodes and their polarisation into the private precincts of integrated shopping and entertainment enclosures. This dispossession and dislocation have increased spatial inequality and atomised the networks of local communities. A recent occurrence …
Urban Commons and the Right to the City
In the increasing cosmopolitan condition of our cities inclusionary urban commons are becoming more and more relevant as civic institutions for encounter, dialogue and collaboration. Their non-commodifiable asset experiences increasing issues of social inclusion, participation, privatisation and universal access. The papers included in this issue of The Journal of Public Space are focused on the development of the commons’ capacity firstly to con…
Simulation, Control and Desire. Urban Commons and Semi-Public Space Resilience in the Age of Augmented Transductive Territorial Production
Considering place-based participation a crucial factor for the development of sustainable and resilient cities in the post-digital turn age, this paper addresses the socio-spatial implications of the recent transformation of relationality networks. To understand the drivers of spatial claims emerged in conditions of digitally augmented spectacle and simulation, it focuses on changes occurring in key nodes of central urban public and semi-public s…
Envisioning Atmospheres of Spectacle and Activism. Utopia and critical urbanism instruments for the reclamation of the fragmented territories of the Wall and the Mall
Woundedlands are places of crisis of the civic sphere, where architecture contributes to escalate the agency of forces that annihilate associative, differential and commoning processes. They are spaces of exemplary expression of the destructive capacity of contemporary technology to increase control, abstraction and exclusion. The Wall and the Mall are two salient Woundedland types addressed in this research. The Wall—a harsh boundary displacing …
Give Us Space! Augmented public space geographies in the changing public/private relationships
The aim of this article is to reflect on and share the findings of the Networking Event ‘Give us Space: Augmented public space geographies in the changing public/private relationships.’ The Event addressed emerging spatial issues in the production of the public realm of contemporary cities. This topic has been at the centre of the discourse on urbanism in both humanities and social sciences for decades, reflecting the increasing interest in spati…
Stand up for Public Space! A networking event at the Habitat III conference and a global online campaign
At Habitat III, the United Nations conference on Housing and Sustainable Development, held in Quito, Ecuador (17-20 th October, 2016), we launched the global online campaign 'Stand up for Public Space!' - www.standupforpublicspace.org - which is a research project promoted by City Space Architecture in collaboration with the Queensland University of Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, LASE+CityUrb Ecuador and the University of Auckla…
Dynamics of territorial production in situated and community projects
This section considers forms of collaboration in situated and community projects embedded in important spatial transformation processes in New Zealand cities. It aims to shed light on specific combinations of material and semantic aspects characterising the relation between people and their environment. Contributions focus on participative urban transformations. The essays that follow concentrate on the dynamics of territorial production of assoc…
The Augmented Meta-Public Space. Interpreting emerging transductive territories in enhanced centres of consumption
Recent socioeconomic and technological advancements are transforming the routines of consumption into post-consumerist practices. From a socio-spatial perspective, this is primarily driven by the augmentation of two main processes: prosumption and transduction. Addressing the condition of public space in rapidly developing cities in East Asia and Australasia, this paper discusses how these two forces have contributed to a novel spatial dimension:…
The Virtual Public Thing: De-re-territorialisations of public space through shopping in Auckland’s urban space
New recombinant factors emerging in urban public space counteract the increasing disjunction of urban places subject to commodification and privatisation. In low-density cities within neoliberal political frameworks, these factors have developed peculiar places of social relationship: the integrated urban enclosures devoted to lifestyle consumption that are the latest evolution of shopping centres. These enclosures are heterotopic places mobilise…
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The Virtual Public Thing: De-re-territorialisations of public space through shopping in Auckland’s urban space
New recombinant factors emerging in urban public space counteract the increasing disjunction of urban places subject to commodification and privatisation. In low-density cities within neoliberal political frameworks, these factors have developed peculiar places of social relationship: the integrated urban enclosures devoted to lifestyle consumption that are the latest evolution of shopping centres. These enclosures are heterotopic places mobilise…
Stand up for Public Space! A networking event at the Habitat III conference and a global online campaign
At Habitat III, the United Nations conference on Housing and Sustainable Development, held in Quito, Ecuador (17-20 th October, 2016), we launched the global online campaign 'Stand up for Public Space!' - www.standupforpublicspace.org - which is a research project promoted by City Space Architecture in collaboration with the Queensland University of Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, LASE+CityUrb Ecuador and the University of Auckla…
Dynamics of territorial production in situated and community projects
This section considers forms of collaboration in situated and community projects embedded in important spatial transformation processes in New Zealand cities. It aims to shed light on specific combinations of material and semantic aspects characterising the relation between people and their environment. Contributions focus on participative urban transformations. The essays that follow concentrate on the dynamics of territorial production of assoc…
The Augmented Meta-Public Space. Interpreting emerging transductive territories in enhanced centres of consumption
Recent socioeconomic and technological advancements are transforming the routines of consumption into post-consumerist practices. From a socio-spatial perspective, this is primarily driven by the augmentation of two main processes: prosumption and transduction. Addressing the condition of public space in rapidly developing cities in East Asia and Australasia, this paper discusses how these two forces have contributed to a novel spatial dimension:…
Give Us Space! Augmented public space geographies in the changing public/private relationships
The aim of this article is to reflect on and share the findings of the Networking Event ‘Give us Space: Augmented public space geographies in the changing public/private relationships.’ The Event addressed emerging spatial issues in the production of the public realm of contemporary cities. This topic has been at the centre of the discourse on urbanism in both humanities and social sciences for decades, reflecting the increasing interest in spati…
Urban Commons and the Right to the City
In the increasing cosmopolitan condition of our cities inclusionary urban commons are becoming more and more relevant as civic institutions for encounter, dialogue and collaboration. Their non-commodifiable asset experiences increasing issues of social inclusion, participation, privatisation and universal access. The papers included in this issue of The Journal of Public Space are focused on the development of the commons’ capacity firstly to con…
Simulation, Control and Desire. Urban Commons and Semi-Public Space Resilience in the Age of Augmented Transductive Territorial Production
Considering place-based participation a crucial factor for the development of sustainable and resilient cities in the post-digital turn age, this paper addresses the socio-spatial implications of the recent transformation of relationality networks. To understand the drivers of spatial claims emerged in conditions of digitally augmented spectacle and simulation, it focuses on changes occurring in key nodes of central urban public and semi-public s…
Envisioning Atmospheres of Spectacle and Activism. Utopia and critical urbanism instruments for the reclamation of the fragmented territories of the Wall and the Mall
Woundedlands are places of crisis of the civic sphere, where architecture contributes to escalate the agency of forces that annihilate associative, differential and commoning processes. They are spaces of exemplary expression of the destructive capacity of contemporary technology to increase control, abstraction and exclusion. The Wall and the Mall are two salient Woundedland types addressed in this research. The Wall—a harsh boundary displacing …
Affirmatively Reading Post-consumerism. Distributed Participatory Creativity and Creative Destruction of the Malled Metropolitan Centres of Auckland, New Zealand, during Covid-19 Lockdown
The impact of the progressive spatial financialisation of contemporary on the centres of public life has involved the privatisation of a relevant portion of their social, cultural, political and economic nodes and their polarisation into the private precincts of integrated shopping and entertainment enclosures. This dispossession and dislocation have increased spatial inequality and atomised the networks of local communities. A recent occurrence …
Urban Safety Via Digitally Augmented Relationality: Leveraging Gotong-Royong for Collaboration, Empathy, and Re-Enchantment in Indonesia’s Public Space
This article addresses urban safety issues, focusing on their relationship with the ongoing effective structural transformation of inborn instrumentalities of progressively vulnerable communities in the Global South. It responds to the United Nations' call for urgent action to reverse the negative trends towards the goals set with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by redefining urban safety as a crucial factor for the affirmation of soc…
(Semi-)immersive digital placemaking: A systematic literature review on augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality applications in placemaking
This article summarizes literature on state-of-the-art (semi-)immersive – augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) – games and applications in placemaking. Its methodology engages with PRISMA workflow, incorporating computational and qualitative analytic methods. Our findings reveal that while most digital tools share common placemaking goals, each (semi-)immersive technology excels in specific areas. AR Location-Based…
Futurible Heterotopias of Phygital Spectacle: Understanding How Digital Technologies Intensify Spatial Segregation in Quasi-Public Commercial Centres
In contemporary cities, the disruption caused by new consumption practices, most notably e-commerce, has intensified the creative destruction of shopping environments. A prominent reinvention of the extra-ordinary experience offered by hyper-consumption centres involves the phygital (physical + digital) augmentation of spectacle leveraging multireality and interaction technologies. This reinvention catalyses translocal, multilevel and asynchronou…
Third Places’ Counter-Practices: Understanding Shifting Boundaries Between Private and Public Space in Urban China
Rapid urbanisation in contemporary China has intensified pressures on private living environments, prompting domestic practices to increasingly unfold within third places, specifically privately owned commercial interiors. A representative example is the Starbucks coffeehouse, which explicitly positions itself as a “third place” through its “home away from home” model. This study examines how activities traditionally associated with the private h…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Public space (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Architecture (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)