Re-writing the City: Negotiating and reflecting on data streams

Pete Abel; Drew Hemment; Sha Li; Gabriele Schliwa; Jonathon Devitt; Chris Trueblood; Mel Woods; Goktug Islamoglu; Lara Devitt; Fionn Tynan-O'Mahony; Rob Raikes; Matthew Fox; Catherine S. Thomson; Antia Dona Vazquez; Joseph Lindley; Jane Macdonald; Deborah Maxwell; Vincent Walsh; Graeme Sherriff; Kirsty Jennings; Vera Karina Gebhardt; Karl Monsen; Robert C. Potts; Pavol Gajdos; Rose Barraclough; Steve Turner; Alex Lee; Hadi Mehrpouya; Anäis Moisy; Vanessa Thomas; Chris Speed; Leon Trimble

doi:10.1145/2783446.2783562

Re-writing the City: Negotiating and reflecting on data streams

Pete Abel, Drew Hemment, Sha Li, Gabriele Schliwa, Jonathon Devitt, Chris Trueblood, Mel Woods, Goktug Islamoglu, Lara Devitt, Fionn Tynan-O'Mahony, Rob Raikes, Matthew Fox, Catherine S. Thomson, Antia Dona Vazquez, Joseph Lindley, Jane Macdonald, Deborah Maxwell, Vincent Walsh, Graeme Sherriff, Kirsty JenningsVera Karina Gebhardt, Karl Monsen, Robert C. Potts, Pavol Gajdos, Rose Barraclough, Steve Turner, Alex Lee, Hadi Mehrpouya, Anäis Moisy, Vanessa Thomas, Chris Speed, Leon Trimble

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	British HCI 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference 2015
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	147-156
Number of pages	10
Volume	Part F116867
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450336437
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2783446.2783562
Publication status	Published - 13 Jul 2015
Event	British HCI Conference, British HCI 2015 - Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom Duration: 13 Jul 2015 → 17 Jul 2015

Conference

Conference	British HCI Conference, British HCI 2015
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Period	13/07/15 → 17/07/15

Keywords

Collaborative writing
Community
Cycling
Data
Living lab

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software

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Abel, P., Hemment, D., Li, S., Schliwa, G., Devitt, J., Trueblood, C., Woods, M., Islamoglu, G., Devitt, L., Tynan-O'Mahony, F., Raikes, R., Fox, M., Thomson, C. S., Vazquez, A. D., Lindley, J., Macdonald, J., Maxwell, D., Walsh, V., Sherriff, G., ... Trimble, L. (2015). Re-writing the City: Negotiating and reflecting on data streams. In British HCI 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference 2015 (Vol. Part F116867, pp. 147-156). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2783446.2783562

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