Supporting community engagement in the city

Wagner, Ina; Basile, Maria Aparecida; Ehrenstrasser, Lisa; Maquil, Valérie; Terrin, Jean-Jacques; Wagner, Mira

doi:10.1145/1556460.1556488

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“…A study by Lewis and Sheppard on visualizing the effects of forest management plans for members of indigenous communities in Canada showed that 3D visualizations were considered far more explanatory than traditional presentation media, e.g., maps [15]. Wagner et al developed the so-called MR-Tent to engage different professional and local laymen stakeholders to urban planning processes with interactive visualizations [16]. The study shows that this could be fruitful in developing a general strategy for the site.…”

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Customized Visualizations of Urban Infill Development Scenarios for Local Stakeholders

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JBCPR

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Infill development has been seen as one of the solutions to urban challenges. However, it changes the dynamics and visual appearance of the neighborhood. As infill development usually requires the acceptance of local stakeholders, their perceptions of the resulting intensified housing have a significant role. In this study, customized visualizations illustrating scenarios of infill development were made from the perspective of individual apartments in neighboring residential building. The usefulness of customized visualizations for local stakeholders was studied in the Tammela test area. A 3D virtual model of the existing environment was created. Models depicting the alternative infill buildings were added to the 3D model, which was used to create customized visualizations. These visualizations were utilized in the interviews of local stakeholders. The findings indicate that the customized visualizations help stakeholders conceptualize the impact, and plan and manage the infill development. Visualizations can also be seen as a tool for a resident-driven approach to intensifying housing.

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“…They should offer the possibility of accurately evaluating and giving feedback on the proposed plan (cf. [16] [18]). When planning the infill development of residential areas, the current residents are the most relevant local stakeholders.…”

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Customized Visualizations of Urban Infill Development Scenarios for Local Stakeholders

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Puustinen

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JBCPR

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“…Spatially situated engagement seeks to make relevant and meaningful to people the issues and topics of discussion that are in their close proximity as they move about their day [40]. Spatially situated technologies for civic engagement range from being stationary (installed at places of interest; e.g., [36,64,69,75]), to mobile (typically location-based and often with rich media capturing capabilities; e.g., [5,27,41,50]), to ubiquitous (more deeply embedded into the fabric of the city in the form of sensors, smaller pervasive displays, ubiquitous input/output modalities, etc. ; e.g., [43,72]).…”

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Creating Friction: Infrastructuring Civic Engagement in Everyday Life

Korn

Voida

2015

AAHCC

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This paper introduces the theoretical lens of the everyday to intersect and extend the emerging bodies of research on contestational design and infrastructures of civic engagement. Our analysis of social theories of everyday life suggests a design space that distinguishes 'privileged moments' of civic engagement from a more holistic understanding of the everyday as 'product-residue. ' We analyze various efforts that researchers have undertaken to design infrastructures of civic engagement along two axes: the everyday-ness of the engagement fostered (from 'privileged moments' to 'product-residue') and the underlying paradigm of political participation (from consensus to contestation). Our analysis reveals the dearth and promise of infrastructures that create frictionprovoking contestation through use that is embedded in the everyday life of citizens. Ultimately, this paper is a call to action for designers to create friction.

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“…In 2009 Wagner et al [11] showed an approach for supporting social collaboration processes in an urban design context. As part of the project "Urban Planning in the MRTent", an interactive environment was developed in prototypical form for use in public participation procedures.…”

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Tangible Mixed Reality On-Site: Interactive Augmented Visualisations from Architectural Working Models in Urban Design

Schubert

Schattel

Tönnis

et al. 2015

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. The consequences of architectural planning and design decisions made in the early design phases are hard to foresee. While professionals are used to reading plans and understanding architectural models, most laypeople are not familiar with their abstractions. This can lead to misinterpretations and misunderstandings between the different participants in the design process, especially in complex building situations, and decisions can be made or rejected that can have far-reaching consequences for the remainder of the project.In this paper we describe the concept and prototypical implementation of a decision-support system for the early design and discussion stages of urban design projects that aims to address precisely this problem. The setup directly connects physical volumetric models and hand-drawn sketches with an interactive, mixedreality visualization presented on a tablet or mobile phone, making it possible to see an interactive real-time view of an architectural design within the context of the actual site. In addition, the system is able to incorporate interactive simulations conducted on the model and presented in the AR-view. Keywords: Early design stages · Urban design · HCI · Tangible interfaces · Immersive environment · Simulations ProblemDuring the early design phases presentations and discussions between architects and clients usually involve sketches, paper and models. While designers are used to working intuitively with these tools, laypeople are not used to reading plans or scale models and find it difficult to relate these abstract representations to the real world. Many people, therefore, find it hard to assess the impact of design decisions at this stage for the later result.An alternative means of presentation is the use of perspective drawings and visualisations that show how an architectural design will look in a real scenario or the actual context. With the availability of affordable and ever more powerful computers, handdrawn perspectives have mostly been replaced by digital visualisations, initially in the form of individual rendered images and more recently in the form of immersive and © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 G.

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Supporting community engagement in the city

Cited by 34 publications

References 11 publications

Customized Visualizations of Urban Infill Development Scenarios for Local Stakeholders

Customized Visualizations of Urban Infill Development Scenarios for Local Stakeholders

Creating Friction: Infrastructuring Civic Engagement in Everyday Life

Tangible Mixed Reality On-Site: Interactive Augmented Visualisations from Architectural Working Models in Urban Design

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