‘URBAN &amp; SUBURBAN NATURE INTERACTIONS’, IMPACTS AND SERENDIPITOUS NARRATIVES OF THE MY NATUREWATCH PROJECT

Phillips, Robert; Anderson, Rosie; Abbas-Nazari, Amina; Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy

doi:10.1017/dsd.2020.6

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“…Connections were fostered with immediate audiences and external parties. The social connection was highlighted in previous work 69 and imperative to the NW project.…”

Section: Connected Community >mentioning

confidence: 85%

Fostering Natural World Engagements: Design Lessons and Issues from the My Naturewatch Training Program

Phillips¹,

Abbas-Nazari²

2022

Design Issues

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Nature's welfare is intertwined with humankinds' welfare, requiring mass citizen-led action. According to wildlife advocate David Attenborough, “we share responsibility for the future of life on earth, [we all have] the power to change.” To this end, the My Naturewatch project (MNW) follows research-through-design approaches: It deploys do-it-yourself (DIY) devices to support new methods of engagement between nature, technology, and humans. The MNW cameras help participants to capture images of their “back garden” wildlife. Through the MNW project, we (the authors) position cameras as agents, enabling “designed engagement(s)” that engender agency, serendipity, and impact. This article recounts a training scheme used in the MNW project to provide nature organizations with methods to foster public engagement through DIY, accessible digital technologies. The scheme encourages appropriation that suits contextual, environmental, and organizational requirements. The authors unpack the experiences and issues realized (through practice) by 14 nationally acclaimed wildlife and conservation organizations, independently running workshops using the MNW project tools. Our findings report the issues and opportunities of designed community engagements for practitioners engaged with defining more sustainable practices.

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“…Connections were fostered with immediate audiences and external parties. The social connection was highlighted in previous work 69 and imperative to the NW project.…”

Section: Connected Community >mentioning

confidence: 85%

Fostering Natural World Engagements: Design Lessons and Issues from the My Naturewatch Training Program

Phillips¹,

Abbas-Nazari²

2022

Design Issues

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“…It aims to provide communities with....], as this practice is intent on providing communities with agency and empowerment through art and design interventions, in effect as a form of 'citizenship'. Prior author work has discussed "ecological citizenship" and questioned our role within sustainable society, giving people agency over their environment [23]. [24].…”

Section: Materials Engagements As Political Actsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engagements2 as ‘HCI Material’: Propagating Community Agency, Through Embedded Technologies

Phillips

Gant²,

Jordan³

et al. 2022

Human-Computer Interaction. Theoretical Approaches and Design Methods

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HCI has material attributes. As a sociotechnical assemblage, HCI mediates and/or translates technologies to public(s) and vice versa. It is malleable, 'made' and crafted and as a material media technology changes our relationships to 'things', each other and our surrounding world. Thinking through HCI as material allows us to unite disciplines with technologies, ensuring that how we conceptualise work is tangible and applicable. Working from this understanding of HCI, allows the authors to contextualise Engagements 2 as an emerging 'material' space uniting art, design and other practices often fractured through disciplinary conventions. Traditionally, public engagement encompasses ways organisations engage with external parties. HCI contemporaries, Public Interest Technologies (PITs) empower public stakeholders and municipalities. PITs unravel intractable problems, through design, data, and delivery, thus providing user agency and yields wider societal benefit(s).We question how digital technologies can transition 'public(s)', to sustainable approaches. In time, Engagements 2 will be commonplace as technologies (PITs, augmented reality, IoT sensing and more) are embedded into public environment(s) if engagement can be defined as a 'craft-able', material concern. The article unites contemporaries in the public realm, social design, and public engagement methods to identify the: pitfalls, benefits, and opportunities. There is a need for creating a 'best practice' roadmap to creative, active engagement. These values go well beyond designing for inclusion and seek for more sustainable and integral interactions, impacts and culture creation.

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Human-Nature Relations in Urban Gardens: Explorations with Camera Traps

Vella

Ploderer

Brereton

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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‘URBAN & SUBURBAN NATURE INTERACTIONS’, IMPACTS AND SERENDIPITOUS NARRATIVES OF THE MY NATUREWATCH PROJECT

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Fostering Natural World Engagements: Design Lessons and Issues from the My Naturewatch Training Program

Fostering Natural World Engagements: Design Lessons and Issues from the My Naturewatch Training Program

Engagements2 as ‘HCI Material’: Propagating Community Agency, Through Embedded Technologies

Human-Nature Relations in Urban Gardens: Explorations with Camera Traps

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