Authors
Anders Koed Madsen, Sofie Burgos-Thorsen, Carlo De Gaetano, Drude Ehn, Maarten Groen, Sabine Niederer, Kathrine Norsk, Thorben Simonsen
Publication date
2023/11
Journal
Methodological Innovations
Volume
16
Issue
3
Pages
292-314
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Description
This paper introduces the open-source Urban Belonging (UB) toolkit, designed to study place attachments through a combined digital, visual and participatory methodology that foregrounds lived experience. The core of the toolkit is the photovoice UB App, which prompts participants to document urban experiences as digital data by taking pictures of the city, annotating them, and reacting to others’ photos. The toolkit also includes an API interface and a set of scripts for converting data into visualizations and elicitation devices. The paper first describes how the app’s design specifications were co-created in a process that brought in voices from different research fields, planners from Gehl Architects, six marginalized communities, and citizen engagement professionals. Their inputs shaped decisions about what data collection the app makes possible, and how it mitigates issues of privacy and visual and spatial literacy …
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