TY - GEN
T1 - Re-writing the City: Negotiating and reflecting on data streams
AU - Abel, Pete
AU - Hemment, Drew
AU - Li, Sha
AU - Schliwa, Gabriele
AU - Devitt, Jonathon
AU - Trueblood, Chris
AU - Woods, Mel
AU - Islamoglu, Goktug
AU - Devitt, Lara
AU - Tynan-O'Mahony, Fionn
AU - Raikes, Rob
AU - Fox, Matthew
AU - Thomson, Catherine S.
AU - Vazquez, Antia Dona
AU - Lindley, Joseph
AU - Macdonald, Jane
AU - Maxwell, Deborah
AU - Walsh, Vincent
AU - Sherriff, Graeme
AU - Jennings, Kirsty
AU - Gebhardt, Vera Karina
AU - Monsen, Karl
AU - Potts, Robert C.
AU - Gajdos, Pavol
AU - Barraclough, Rose
AU - Turner, Steve
AU - Lee, Alex
AU - Mehrpouya, Hadi
AU - Moisy, Anäis
AU - Thomas, Vanessa
AU - Speed, Chris
AU - Trimble, Leon
PY - 2015/7/13
Y1 - 2015/7/13
N2 - This paper is an output of a two day 'Festival Lab' held at the Future Everything Festival, Manchester, UK, March 2015. The Festival Lab invited a team of academic researchers to develop a model of public engagement during the festival that would explore specific research questions around mobility, data awareness, and civic engagement. From this brief the academic team developed the Festival Lab 'PuBLiC', and created an activity arc that involved participants borrowing bicycles and responding to structured and unstructured research questions about the future of cycling and data use in the city of Manchester. Equipped with iPhones with bespoke software for collecting short textual comments, photographs and GPS data, participants became integral actors in one-day field studies, taking the role of both subjects and authors of this paper. We present findings and observations noted by participants and researchers, discussing the significance of these as triangulated in a closing workshop plenary session. Finally, we conclude by reflecting on the paper creation process itself, a collaborative, intensive, fast-paced approach that challenges the very framework of academic authority and public engagement.
AB - This paper is an output of a two day 'Festival Lab' held at the Future Everything Festival, Manchester, UK, March 2015. The Festival Lab invited a team of academic researchers to develop a model of public engagement during the festival that would explore specific research questions around mobility, data awareness, and civic engagement. From this brief the academic team developed the Festival Lab 'PuBLiC', and created an activity arc that involved participants borrowing bicycles and responding to structured and unstructured research questions about the future of cycling and data use in the city of Manchester. Equipped with iPhones with bespoke software for collecting short textual comments, photographs and GPS data, participants became integral actors in one-day field studies, taking the role of both subjects and authors of this paper. We present findings and observations noted by participants and researchers, discussing the significance of these as triangulated in a closing workshop plenary session. Finally, we conclude by reflecting on the paper creation process itself, a collaborative, intensive, fast-paced approach that challenges the very framework of academic authority and public engagement.
KW - Collaborative writing, Community, Cycling, Data, Living lab
U2 - 10.1145/2783446.2783562
DO - 10.1145/2783446.2783562
M3 - Conference contribution
VL - Part F116867
SP - 147
EP - 156
BT - British HCI 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference 2015
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
ER -