Digital Creativity in Urban Interventions: Using Technology as an Engagement and Idea Inducing Tool

The urban planning discipline is increasingly turning to specialized technologies to better understand the multiple and complex processes within cities. Automation is already reshaping infrastructure and urban ecosystems. This study seeks to reconciliate technological agency and creative research methods by utilising laser scanning technology to increase community participation in planning and speculate about urban possibilities of using walking and pedestrian viewpoints as drivers for urban design. This research employs hybrid methods, on the one hand the simple act of walking and on the other hand visualising the urban space using a 3D laser scanner. This mixed technique makes it possible to increase the perception of individuals with respect to urban space, becoming more aware of it and coming into greater contact with it generating ideas about spaces encountered on the route.