This study examines the potential of interactive art installations to stimulate human engagement and activities in public spaces and presenting a design proposal. The aim is to develop a sense of belonging despite differences and promote tolerance since Bahrain has a population of multi-ethnic and many non Bahraini migrant. In addition, to address the immaterial and intangible aspects of the design and create public spaces that can elevate and inspire people. The research clearly shows how installations can contribute to the urban landscape, increase human interaction and enhance the identity of urban communities. The research is focused on temporary art installations, that support new technologies to encourage people to interact and become actors in the urban scene. Mostly on the basis of case studies from other parts of the world, site observations and interviews. It also provides insight into the art scene, the festivals, the screens projecting media and the urban initiatives in Bahrain. Many studies has been made in Bahrain about public spaces including interviews and site observations. The other part discusses the art installation that was developed, which is a set of LED lights connected to a sensor. The installation is to be tested in various settings, including an art exhibition and public space interactions in various locations in Bahrain. The findings will record the various interaction and get insight about human behavior in each location and better understand the feasibility of these installations.

University campus has a profound impact on the growth and development of college students. This study focuses on how female freshmen perceive the campus and build up the sentimental ties with their favorite places. Drawing on selected findings (participants' photographs, associated quotes and researchers' field notes), we provide an assessment of place sense of photovoice method for the purpose of place attachment on the campus. Female freshmen (n=54; aged 18-19 years) from different departments in Tongji University (Shanghai) were recruited purposively. Participants photographed perceived positive and negative places on the campus, reflecting on the meanings of photographs in individual and group interviews. Thematic and content analysis was conducted using natural language processing software, and the relevance of high frequency vocabulary and the correlation of key words were examined by Rost Content Mining. The work reported that built environment elements, type of activity, and emotional experience jointly build the female freshmen's perception of campus places. The place attachment comes from the fulfillment of activity demand related to place function and the emotional experience related to place cognition. Architecture, roads and its affiliated facilities, greening and landscape, public space, and atmosphere are key elements highly valued by the participants. These elements and the way of the combination are particularly important for creating place cognition and emotional experience. Furthermore, the study also conducted a nuclear density analysis of the shooting location based on GIS. The results show that frequent exposures to specific places may enrich the perception of the place, those places are more likely to cultivate place attachment than other places. The functionality of the place is intertwined with the emotional experience. Both active and passive exposure are premised on functional satisfaction. However, constructing a positive emotional experience in a place is more complicated, requiring campus management, meaning of the place, understanding of the way elements are organized, and grasping the diversity of activities. A strong learning atmosphere and rich social interaction activities help to generate a strong sense of place. It is also a means for female college students to obtain the sense of security and belongings .The emotional connection can promote the interaction of function, perception and cognition between people and place, and forming an organic and continuous virtuous circle. Finally, the introduction of Photovoice methods in this study demonstrated its superiority in place study, such as the effective improvement of the quality of public participation, the promotion of participants’ critical thinking, and the constructive suggestions. Meanwhile, it provides a new perspective of demand-responsive intervention to the practitioners, which shows a great potential of Photovoice method in the community renewal work and deepening public participation.

Nowadays, China's population aging has became a phenomenon, showing a trend of increasing and accelerating. Tianjin is a typical aging city in China. The total number of elderly people in the community of Xianyang North Road Street in Tianjin is as high as 30%. Tianjin was originally dominated by the state-owned economy. Since the 1980s, it has undergone compulsory revolution of state-owned enterprises and has greatly affected the lives of its employees. The elderly residents of Xianyang North Road Street Community are mostly former state-owned enterprise employees. The community construction which is a typical Chinese state-owned enterprise old life community has the characteristics, the lack of leisure activities and low grades, of workers’ new villages in the 1980s. Living in such a community environment, the elderly are not easy to reduce psychological pressure through outdoor activities, which is not conducive to physical and mental health and social stability. Therefore, this study attempts to conduct a detailed investigation of the outdoor activity needs of middle-aged and elderly residents in the old-life communities of state-owned enterprises, and proposes targeted strategies for the adaptation of the elderly of outdoor activity spaces in such communities to alleviate the dissatisfaction of the elderly and maintain social stability. In this study, a random sampling method is used to conduct observations and in-depth interviews with 13 elderly people aged 60 years and over in the community of Xianyang North Road. The results of the study find that the development of the public activity space in the community seriously lags behind the aging rate. The elderly are very concerns about the safety and comfort of the public activity space, but the status quo public activity space has hindered its activities .The main problems are unreasonable location distribution, old and insufficient facilities, inadequate facilities and the lack of management and maintenance. For the above problems and analyze the reasons, this study proposes strategies from the aspects of activity route planning, space composite utilization, on-demand facility support, management and operation innovation and so on, with a view to providing decision-making reference for transformation of outdoor activity space, and further improving the satisfaction and well-being of middle-aged and elderly residents in the old-life community of state-owned enterprises.

The world's elderly population has soared since the 21st century. Data from China's national bureau of statistics shows that by the end of 2018, there were 249 million people aged 60 or above in China, accounting for 17.9 percent of the total population. By 2050, China's aging population will reach 487 million, accounting for 35.1% of the total population. By then, there will be 2.02 billion people over the age of 60 in the world. In the covid-19 epidemic in 2020, more than 30% of deaths worldwide will be among the elderly, with chronic underlying diseases prevalent. One of the important reasons for the formation of these diseases is the lack of outdoor exercise, and one of the key influencing factors is the fitness of activity environment. Therefore, it is of theoretical significance and practical value to spatial and temporal environment characteristics of outdoor activities of the elderly, analyze the influence mechanism of the activity environment on the activities of the elderly, and judge and optimize their agedness. In this study, city Dezhou of Shandong province, China, was selected as the research city, where the elderly population ratio was significant, the economic development was at an average level, and the community construction time was long. In this study, a questionnaire entitled environment and needs for outdoor activities of the elderly was compiled, including basic information of the elderly, spatial characteristics of activities, and environmental cognition of community activities, with a total of 30 questions. Data acquisition is conducted both online and offline. In the trial research stage, a total of 100 questionnaires were collected. The statistical results show that: the elderly generally pay attention to outdoor activities and their activities are generally with regularity; activity willingness is restricted by underlying diseases; the activity environment is under weak support; the reconstruction of the activity environment involves distance, facilities, health and epidemic prevention and space innovation. This study is ongoing, and will further summarize the time-space characteristics of activities of the elderly through a wider range of data, explore the time-space restriction mechanism of outdoor activities, and put forward targeted recommendations for the optimization of age-appropriate spatial environment. Key words: elderly; health; outdoor activities; spatial and temporal characteristics; environmental optimization

Sustainable Development Goals has the seventh target of its Sustainable Cities and Communities-Goal:11 focused on providing access to safe and inclusive green and public spaces. Principles of sustainable development necessitate that a balance between environment and development to ensure healthy living. It has long been established that the presence of natural areas and open green spaces in and around urban settlements contributes to a quality of life by providing important ecological, social and psychological benefits to humans. In India, growing population and rapid urbanisation is resulting in significant land being used for developmental activities resulting in decline in open spaces across cities. However, the case in Chandigarh, India is different from rest of the country, where open spaces are considered as inviolable landuse. Being a rare exception amongst the cities established immediately after India’s Independence, urban greens were visualized and planned as an integral component in the city’s Master Plan. Le Corbusier conceived the master plan of Chandigarh as analogous to human body, where green spaces symbolized the lungs. The greens in Chandigarh were created as functional, organized and natural spaces for integration and convergence of mind and body, that is the city as well as of its population. The research delves into the aspect of inclusivity of its various green spaces based on the social survey of the city’s residents. The intent is to determine the usability and accessibility of the greens by the residents for various recreational, cultural and ecosystem services. The measures of inclusivity of the green spaces is defined to address the key question being researched upon, that is if green spaces have led to Chandigarh being a healthy city. Built upon the geospatial technological tools and social survey, the authors discern the typologies of green spaces as the measure for building a healthy city contextualized for Chandigarh, India.