What is the underlining thinking process to configure frameworks to deal with or accomplish specific design tasks? How can the end-users actively participate in those metaverse virtual worlds to trust them and relate to reality? How can the duration of “affecting computing” be achieved in a mixed-reality-based co-urban design environment? What strategies should the city designers adopt to accept effective remote collaboration between multiple stakeholders? What challenges stop the stakeholders from adopting these emerging technologies in their city design approach? We emphasize perspectives exploring how virtual co-urban design and users of metaverse technologies are likely to affect urban design processes and well-being. The manuscripts shall respond to how those mixed-reality instruments leverage macro city level design discussion with multi-stakeholder to a micro interior level simply between designers and users. The compilation seeks tested and proposed hypotheses on stakeholders’ involvement and participation in the virtual collaborative urban design and planning. This Research Topic seeks to understand the inter-connected and inter-dependent yet contested dialogues among city design professionals, citizen engagement, and the nature of the metaverse world of virtual environment and communication. This recent emergence of utilizing cyberspace as a platform for design negotiation needs to be explored and reported as pieces of evidence. INTRODUCTION Many cities throughout the world are building, or considering building, their own virtual city models.

Furthermore, the current pandemic also forces people to communicate more virtually, even if they are unwilling. The enhanced virtual communicative media allows citizens to dwell in the hybrid world of cities between virtual and reality, which the city designers must address while envisioning a design. In such spaces, the participants act as avatars hovering around the virtual city and create virtual content independently through group collaboration. There are also propositions for the metaverse world to utilize cyberspace as a sandbox of the real world to examine and exercise urban design and planning-related negotiations. These technologies also enable distance collaboration and carry out the same decision-making negotiations in cyberspace. A range of connected, multimodal and multi-sensory XR technologies are being explored in the labs and used in places to allow citizen participation and collaboration in city design and planning. Agendas & Minutes Annual Reports Historic Documents Informal Informational. The technologies offered by the metaverse era, their nature and type of communication and representation in the city design show opportunities and challenges for implementing such initiatives. interaction technology that enables the virtual use of the spaces.” Some of the out-of-this-world features of the Zaha Hadid Architects’ metaverse include hovering rooftops, enormous interiors with no need to consider energy efficiency, and auditoriums that can expand and shrink based on the number of users in them.Co-urban design is increasingly adopting virtual communicative media and cyberspaces to connect with communities and professionals from citizen representative institutions. “Metaverse provided their innovative and proprietary V.R.

“The main thrust of the design is to utilize the congeniality of our architecture with the user experience, and adapt our design ethos and methods to address the specific opportunities and constraints offered by the virtual realm,” Schumacher says. Unlike those real structures, though, the ones the firm is designing for the metaverse are even more creative, which makes sense considering there are hardly any limitations when it comes to the freedoms of virtual reality.

It’s as otherworldly as it is realistic, with architectural forms that the renowned firm has already built. Schumacher, however, has managed to tie both worlds together through Zaha Hadid Architects’ Liberland metaverse, which he adamantly urges is neither a video game nor a fantasy land. The city hall is clearly informed by structures that the architecture firm has built around the world, including the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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