{"id":2105,"date":"2016-02-06T17:41:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T17:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/placemakers.pt\/www\/en\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2016-02-06T17:41:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T17:41:23","slug":"integrating-software-and-hardware-with-the-right-operating-system-creating-windows-for-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placemakers.pt\/www\/en\/2016\/02\/06\/integrating-software-and-hardware-with-the-right-operating-system-creating-windows-for-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrating Software and Hardware with the right operating system \u2013 creating \u201cWindows\u201d for sustainability!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too often potentially interesting place-based projects, whether urban regeneration or heritage-based projects, have been reduced to the immediately tangible denominators of \u201cworks\u201d, or \u201c<em>obra<\/em>\u201d as it is called in Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>A successful Placemaking project relies on the participation of all the interested parts and not just its promoter. All of a project\u2019s stakeholders should engage, whether they are ticket buyers or local residents, because without their buy-in the project won\u2019t be sustainable. And the more participative their involvement, the stronger the chances for the project\u2019s longer-term future.<\/p>\n<p>This fixation with \u201c<em>obra<\/em>\u201d has perverted wonderful opportunities in the past, either because the master-planning of the project didn\u2019t adequately contemplate the need for the \u201csofter\u201d issues, or the business-plan was poorly conceived and the money ran out, or somebody\u2019s vanity got in the way or, as is too often the case, the overbearing pressures of a short-term agenda and gains have deviated the promotors from their original ideals.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSoftware\u201d is precisely what differentiates the craft of \u201cPlacemaking\u201d because it takes an holistic view which is only achievable by considering all the multitude of disciplines and simultaneously embracing the human element, hopefully stimulating the market\u2019s (the humans &#8211; resident, visitors etc.) interest and active participation. Without it, the \u201cHardware\u201d won\u2019t function properly.<\/p>\n<p>The international advances in Placemaking enable us to continually upgrade our software in an operating system adapted to a local hardware. Our operating system is to partner the stakeholders in finding the best solutions for their projects.<\/p>\n<p>We may know more about Placemaking, but our clients usually know more about their Place.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the software and the hardware function and our craft provides \u201cwindows\u201d for improving the quality and sustainability of projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cSoftware\u201d is what differentiates the craft of \u201cPlacemaking\u201d because it takes an holistic view which can only be achieved when also considering the human element.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,45,46,47,23,48,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placemakers.pt\/www\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placemakers.pt\/www\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placemakers.pt\/www\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placemakers.pt\/www\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placemakers.pt\/www\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placemakers.pt\/www\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/placemakers.pt\/www\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placemakers.pt\/www\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placemakers.pt\/www\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placemakers.pt\/www\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placemakers.pt\/www\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}