Interactive Design Documentary As A Method For Civic Engagement

Crivellaro, Clara; Tidey, Jimmy

doi:10.1145/2745197.2755518

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“…Examples of work which have focused on citizen story creation and sharing through participatory media include Vox Populi [7] which aimed to create community narratives; Civic Life Online [63] where youth publicly communicated issues they care about; and Interactive Design Documentaries [30] which facilitated encounters and exchanges across public and online spaces to catalyse community dialogues around specific issues. Further to this, Collect Yourselves!…”

Section: Participatory Media and Citizen Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory Media

Manuel

Vigar

Bartindale

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Neighbourhood planning devolves power to communities to create their own planning policy but traditional forms of participation are still relied upon. And despite the ubiquitous nature of technology in society, digital participation methods are rarely used. In this paper, we outline fieldwork with two neighbourhood planning groups who used participatory media technology to improve engagement though the art of storytelling. We focus on the configuration of participatory media as a way to widen participation and enable story creation and sharing amongst citizens. We highlight that storytelling using media technology can provide a model of and a model for the way we 'do' neighbourhood planning whilst emphasising the challenges of ensuring processes are linked to tangible actions and encouraging the multiplicity of stories.

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Section: Participatory Media and Citizen Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory Media

Manuel

Vigar

Bartindale

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…The use of PV in NP can open up planning processes to a more inclusive, deeper set of narratives as others have shown (Bhimani et al, 2013;Frohlich et al, 2012;Green et al, 2015;Sandercock, 2010). Film-making is a creative practice that can, as other explorations of creative engagements for citizen engagement also show, enhance participation, in part through the generation of stories that can be subsequently debated and elaborated by citizens.…”

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confidence: 95%

Enhancing citizen engagement in planning through participatory film-making

Manuel

Vigar

2020

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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There is a long history of engaging citizens in planning processes, and the intention to involve them actively in planning is a common objective. However, the reality of doing so is rather fraught and much empirical work suggests poor results. Partly in response an increasingly sophisticated toolkit of methods has emerged, and, in recent years, the deployment of various creative and digital technologies has enhanced this toolkit. We report here on case study research that deployed participatory film-making to augment a process of neighbourhood planning. We conclude that such a technology can elicit issues that might be missed in traditional planning processes; provoke key actors to include more citizens in the process by highlighting existing absences in the knowledge base; and, finally, provoke greater deliberation on issues by providing spaces for reflection and debate. We note, however, that while participants in film-making were positive about the experience, such creative methods were side-lined as established forms of technical–rational planning reasserted themselves.

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“…Accordingly, we intended for the design documentary to motivate new perspectives on designing for Grace's communication experiences, so that these perspectives could produce new outcomes that transcend the existing ways of designing for communication and disability. Prior work has shown that design documentaries offer a more 'dialectical' and 'interventional' approach by creating a narrative through the researcher's interpretive lens [12]. We found that our design documentary stimulated dialogue by generating speculations and questions that were useful for engaging with designer values concerning disability and childhood.…”

Section: How Generative Were Design Documentaries In Designing For DImentioning

confidence: 80%

Can design documentaries disrupt design for disability?

Ibrahim

Vasalou

Clarke

2020

Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference

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This paper shows how design documentaries can motivate new perspectives for design and disability. We critically consider the ways in which design documentaries can foreground children's lived experiences and priorities, in cases where it is not always possible to involve children early on in the design process. By presenting a design case for supporting communication that involves children with severe speech and physical impairments and their social peers, we discuss how this narrative method can evoke designer empathy and guide new interpretations. Our findings show that design documentaries can convey to designers rich and multifaceted accounts of children's communication experiences. Although this is found to be generative, we also identify a tension with a bodily impairment understanding of disability. Drawing on reflections from our case study, we propose new methodological implications for embedding design documentaries in the design process of technologies for disability.

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Interactive Design Documentary As A Method For Civic Engagement

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

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Enhancing citizen engagement in planning through participatory film-making

Can design documentaries disrupt design for disability?

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