Smart furniture (smart cities) can provide publicity, mobility services and local government communication, among many other services; however, its use for improving the quality of life of the elderly (extended IP-spaces concept) can be further researched. This paper describes the first step in a collaborative design of a smart city platform based on this concept. This design requires a layered design, as it includes architectonic, artistic, technological and social aspects. Participatory design (PD) and participatory action research (PAR) methodologies were selected to include the elderly in the design to ensure the acceptance and usability of the system. During this specific design process, three groups of elderly people from three geographic points of Spain were recruited. PD was applied to capture the users’ preferences and general specifications regarding the architectonic aspect of the project, while PAR was used to capture these groups’ quality-of-life needs, determine the initial acceptance of the project and define the initial activities to be realized for mitigating the detected needs. The application of these qualitative methodologies should produce a user-centric, valuable but local (specific) design. As more groups and towns will be involved, the new local designs will build a bigger set of validated solutions that potentially could be customized and reused for other contexts.

The idea of the Neo-conceptualization of the landscape and the evolution of the cellular habitat is a thought that delves into the roots of the human being from the perspective of its appearance within the natural environment; as well as the cosmogony that results in the definition of its identity and culture. It is from the deepening in the historical antecedents that it is possible to understand the Being and therefore, its actions both in the present and in the past, hypothetically posing the return to the origin as a forceful and functional improvement of its person and society, agreeing that the natural state of man is what should be pursued to maintain a healthy balance both in his person and his reflection in urban art. This research delves into the primordial questions of the evolution of the human being as an individual, the formulation of his culture, the development of the Polis and the condensation of his community until it becomes a cog in today's society; The book deals with the understanding of the human being towards material and immaterial space, the existing or non-existing connection with its ecosystem, its cosmogony, the abstract landscape, in addition to all those elements that comprise the dimensions of the occupied square meter. The individual character of the human being that starts from its connection with the natural and artificial environment is presented as a source of enrichment of its identity from the fusion with the nature of the landscape and the spirit. The process of disconnection that is currently experienced due to spiritual decay is also studied, a possible product of the separation of the human being from nature narrated in detail in liquid life, speaking of a division of the being into two parts; the internal, the loss of essence and the external, that which represents the distancing from the contextual environment from which it emerges and which devolves to the point of absence, ignorance, fiction, isolation and the social crisis experienced in contemporary times. The study based on the knowledge of the true meaning of the structuring words, which are defined in this document, creates a diagram of the conceptual core of the Neo-conceptualization of the Landscape, suggesting the creation of a landscape utopia that goes beyond the tangible, which transcends the material plane from a restructuring of human thought in favor of its social repercussion in the butterfly effect, simultaneously alluding to the Genius Loci and the re-connection with the natural environment as a code of improvement and continuity of the species through empathy and respect that consolidate a balance seeking to achieve the harmony of coexistence. In other words, in the search for the idea of landscape, it is proposed to find motivation in ideals that, although they could be defined as utopian, incite the development of living spaces for living, unique and conscious individuals; the restructuring of spaces that, although occupied, should be enjoyed in the same way, turning space into fragments of paradise on earth, where in an attempt to find quality of life, one rushes towards the concept of happiness, with gardens being the axes that shape the surrounding landscape that surrounds the integrity of the individual. In summary, this research hypothesis immerses itself in the human being and its chronology with an ontological and phenomenological approach that has as its premise the return to the origins and rootedness to the nature of the context, encouraging the revaluation of one's own space, originality, essence, the internal, the external, the material and abstract plane; that is, the pneuma of space combined with the link between the human being and the natural and spiritual universe as the primary distinction between existing and really being alive. RESUMEN La idea de la Neo-conceptualización del paisaje y la evolución del hábitat célula es un pensamiento que ahonda en las raíces del ser humano desde la perspectiva de su aparición dentro del medio natural; así como, la cosmogonía que resulta en la definición de su identidad y cultura. Es a partir del ahondamiento en los antecedentes históricos que es posible el entendimiento del Ser y por tal, de sus acciones tanto en el presente como en el pasado, planteando hipotéticamente el retorno al origen como una mejora contundente y funcional de su persona y sociedad, coincidiendo en que el estado natural del hombre es lo que debería perseguirse para mantener un equilibrio saludable tanto en su persona como su reflejo en la plástica urbana. Esta investigación profundiza en las cuestiones primigenias de la evolución del ser humano como individuo, la formulación de su cultura, el desarrollo de la Polis y la condensación de su comunidad hasta llegar a ser un engrane de la sociedad actual; se habla sobre el entendimiento del ser humano hacia el espacio material e inmaterial, la compenetración existente o no con su ecosistema, su cosmogonía, el paisaje abstracto, además de todo aquel elemento que comprende las dimensiones del metro cuadrado ocupado. El carácter individual del ser humano que parte de su vinculación con el medio natural y artificial se plantea como fuente del enriquecimiento de su identidad a partir de la fusión con la naturaleza del paisaje y el espíritu. Así también se estudia, el proceso de desvinculación que se vive actualmente debido al decaimiento espiritual, posible producto de la separación del ser humano con la naturaleza narrado a detalle en la vida Líquida, hablando de una división del ser en dos partes; la interna, la perdida de esencia y la externa, aquella que representa el alejamiento del medio contextual del cual emerge y que involuciona al punto de la ausencia el desconocimiento, la ficción, el aislamiento y la crisis social vivida en la...