Digital Public Infrastructures for Creative Communities
Digital Public Infrastructures for Creative Communities
The Case of the Quartier des Spectacles
This chapter investigates the potential for new forms of social and civic interaction to be enabled when the notion of the public good is economically and philosophically applied to locative media. It also explores the possible forms that interactive digital technologies might take when embedded within shared public spaces. This is achieved using a multisited ethnographic approach to a case study of Quartier des Spectacles, a digital urban infrastructure in Montreal Canada. The authors argue that insofar as Quartier des Spectacles has successfully prioritized social over private returns, it provides a useful model for the future development of digital public infrastructures, which both closes the gap between top-down and bottom up approaches to interactive technology design, and more effectively meets the needs of end users.
Keywords: Digital public infrastructure, Quartier des Spectacles, Public goods, Locative media, Common goods, Global public goods, Local public goods
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