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Creative urban spaces : a collaborative and organisational view
(Institute of Knowledge Asset Management (IKAM), 2025) Romanelli, Mauro; Zbuchea, Alexandra; Bîră, Monica
The urban development processes rely on cities and urban communities that make efforts to support initiatives and policies that enhance the aims and the implementation of sustainable issues within urban spaces. In particular, cities are going smart not only by investing in human and organisational energies to make technology as a driver for sustainable urban growth, but also promoting cultural, civic and creative assets and inputs that make the city a culture-led and knowledge-driven socially innovative urban community, opening to creative urban spaces. Post-industrial cities increasingly are working to make and develop creative collaborative urban spaces. Cities of tomorrow will invest knowledge sources in driving creative-led and culture-driven initiatives that contribute to making collaborative urban spaces and driving sustainable and inclusive urban growth, leading to community development and engagement. The future of urban growth relies on promoting culture as an opportunity to develop inclusive and cohesive communities that contribute to making creative urban spaces. Creative hubs develop bottom-up initiatives, by involving artists and other creatives who are able to meet the needs of an artistic community, making creative meeting places as well as urban spaces. Creative urban spaces develop creativity-led processes and rely on creative cities and hubs as socially inclusive communities that rediscover the importance of collaborative innovation as a framework that helps shape wealthy urban spaces into engines of social innovation. The study aims at investigating the relationships between creative cities and hubs that are following a collaborative view to organisational as well as urban spaces, in order to drive social innovation and achieve social sustainability within creative urban spaces.
Malicious use of artificial intelligence in political campaigns: Challenges for international psychological security for the next decades
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2023-06-10) Vacarelu, Marius
The generalization of Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) use in the following decades will create huge pressure on the voters’ mental security. The frequency of political campaigns—predominantly electoral—and globalization makes us face a real universalized political campaign, in which territorial boundaries matter less. AI has a rapidly increasing impact on how citizens seek, receive, impart, and access information in political campaigns and elections, especially through online platforms and social media networks. These platforms use AI as part of highly complex and opaque systems to curate content, resulting in a significant impact on freedom of expression. A wise legislator must understand that the strength of AI can collide with the reasoning processes of people, leading to serious disorders of the psyche—both individually and in groups—that can create dangerous behaviors in public space, disrupting important levels of society. Thus, it becomes necessary to study the effects that the malicious use of artificial intelligence will have on the psychology of people, as well as the general security of society and states, with the goal of creating a new international and national legal framework to prevent and sanction any AI use that is outside the moral limits stipulated by that framework.
Artificial Intelligence and Higher Education Legal Limits
(Springer Nature, 2023) Vacarelu, Marius
Human knowledge has undergone a constant process of information accumulation—first about nature, then about space, and finally about most of the social processes in which a human being is involved during life. Obviously, not all this knowledge is exhaustive, but libraries are impressive witnesses to the work of so many generations of researchers and teachers, and no doubt we can appreciate it objectively as positive results in many areas. The evolution of knowledge has made a huge leap since the invention of printing, and from that moment, a growing category of people have access to knowledge about contemporary realities, as well as cultural and artistic “products”. Knowledge has become increasingly “popular” in the background, meaning that the price of access to culture and information about every day realities has dropped to a level easily reached by more than half of each country's population. The second great transformation brought by the human mind appeared at the time of the Internet creation, which today has been extended to the dimension of new technology, called artificial intelligence. In this new paradigm, education is about creating new directions of action, and as a result, changing the entire human society. Within this great transformation, higher education—carried out in universities—will play a fundamental role, and the legal limits of the activities that these huge research centers are doing well in turn influence the next decades of all nations and countries, with no exception.
Co-creation in public services for innovation and social justice
(Policy Press, 2024) Baines, Sue (eds.); Wilson, Rob (eds.); Fox, Chris (eds.); Narbutaite Aflaki, Inga (eds.); Bassi, Andrea (eds.); Aramo-Immonen, Heli (eds.); Prandini, Riccardo (eds.)
This book examines the idea and practice of co-creation in public services. Informed by practical action, lived experience and research from 10 countries across Europe, including the UK, it shines new light on the theory and reality of co-creation by conceptualising it in terms of human rights, social justice and social innovation. Focusing on human dimensions, the book presents real life examples in public services as diverse as social care, health, work activation, housing and criminal justice. It also highlights the ways digital technologies can accelerate or hinder co-creation. The book confronts a paradox at the heart of co-creation: standardisation and inflexibility in planning and resourcing, or ‘concrete-ness’, counters the ‘elasticity’ required to sustain co-creation in complex contexts
The Impact of" Black Swan" Events on Oil and the European Capital Markets
(Academic of Economics Studies, 2024) Anghel, Lucian Claudiu; Zwak-Cantoriu, Maria Cristina; Obreja, Carmen; Afjal, Mohd
The price of oil and, indirectly, the performance of the stock indexes were significantly impacted by the evolution of the energy market in the context of the switch to renewable energy sources and the modifications in global energy policy. This paper proposes a comprehensive analysis of several crucial financial field elements, with particular attention to the evolution of stock indices, financial market volatility, and investor response to major events that have recently caused changes in the global economy. Using advanced economic and statistical models, the paper shows the complex relationship between the analysed stock indices, the trends and changes that occurred within them and the relevant influencing factors, such as the price of oil and the Baltic Dry Index.The results of the DCC-GARCH models highlight a significant positive correlation between the stock indices of several European countries, underlining the interconnection of these markets in conditions of increased volatility.