Sharing the experience of urban design schemes through immersive simulation

The recent activity of citizens’ engagement for communicating the redesign scheme of an urban street using immersive simulation techniques is presented in this paper. The use of multiple tools during events with lay people and local stakeholders was tested in order to investigate the potential use of novel technologies for improving the understanding and the sharing of information in relation to urban transformation processes. In particular, the focus of this paper is about the use of immersive and dynamic experiential simulation in public events. The evaluation of the enabled experience was supported by the direct observation of people reactions to simulations and through dedicated surveys submitted right after the visualizations.