AI for Cities: Driving Advanced Urban Efficiency, Quality of Life, and Resiliency
2026-03-17
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Gender, Diversity, and Identities in Street Art and Urban Public Visual Culture
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From Wall to Cloud: Platforms, Data, and AI in Urban Visual Culture
2026-03-17The circulation of urban art no longer ends on the wall. It is increasingly reconfigured through Instagram and TikTok, digital archives, collaborative mapping practices, festivals, brands, city digital twins, and—more and more—AI-mediated environments (image generation, recommender systems, and “algorithmic aesthetics”). This transformation raises questions that are particularly pertinent for Street Art & Urban Creativity (SAUC): How is the symbolic value of street art co-produced across public space, platform infrastructures, and the market? What changes when artworks are optimized for the feed, for “virality,” or for quantification and performance metrics? How does AI reshape authorship, style, attribution, visual misinformation, and rights regimes?
Read more about From Wall to Cloud: Platforms, Data, and AI in Urban Visual Culture
This special issue aims to bring together empirical and methodological contributions—digital ethnography, visual analysis, social network analysis, urban case studies, and reception-oriented experiments—that account for how urban creativity has also become infrastructural: increasingly dependent on data, devices, metrics, and platform governance. -
Antoni Gaudí – The Gaudí Year 2026
2025-08-01Editors:
Ubaldo Cuesta Cambra, Complutense University of Madrid
María Antón Barco, CEU San Pablo University
Alfred Sonnenfeld, International University of La RiojaAbstract:
Read more about Antoni Gaudí – The Gaudí Year 2026
The Gaudí Year 2026 marks the centenary of the death of Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926), an architect whose work has transcended his own time to become a universal symbol of creativity, spirituality, and urban experimentation. Recognised by UNESCO as World Heritage in several of his masterpieces—such as Park Güell, Casa Batlló, Casa Milà (La Pedrera), and the Crypt of Colònia Güell—Gaudí transformed Barcelona’s urban landscape into a living artistic ecosystem, where architecture, nature, and symbolism merge into a narrative that continues to inspire contemporary artists, urban planners, and creators.
