The urban sphere is said to be the principal location of enacting progress in the twenty-first century.
We inhabit a rapidly urbanizing planet. Cities are growing by 60 million per year globally. By 2050, they will constitute over 60 percent of the world’s population, and at just 2 percent of the world’s land mass, cities will consume about 75 percent of the world’s resources.
Today, art museums and university art museums in particular, nationally and internationally, are demonstrating increased commitment to public access and learning, using visitor experiences to drive many of the museum’s decisions and activities. Museum education programs enable a museum to reach out and serve the public and globalised society of which they are part, to enhance accessibility and and to execute a museums’ mission.
More than any other, the twenty first century will be an urban century. Second, the driving force and mechanism of achieving a more sustainable future is said to be new technology, and specifically, the digital integration and optimization of all sectors of human activity and the physical environment.
It is now frequently projected that artificial intelligence, machine learning, sensors, big data, and feedback loops will create hyper efficiencies that enable the innovative resolution of seemingly intractable global problems.
creativity is said to be the principal human capability required for the twenty-first century. The ability to innovate and invent and therein add economic value to new technology is positioned as central for the design of sustainable cities and for resolving challenges ranging from the scarcity of resources to global poverty.
New Internet technologies, the Internet-of-Things (IoT), networks of sensors and smart devices, embedded systems, the semantic web, the Internet of users and people, cloud
computing, in two words the „Future Internet‟, marks a technological turn that introduces anew type of spatial intelligence of cities, namely an embedded spatial intelligence. This form of intelligence is advancing the information and knowledge capabilities of communities which were created by web 2.0 applications, social media, and crowdsourcing platforms, and opens a new cycle of innovation and e-services in cities.
