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Co-Producing Tools for Participation and Action in Urban Environments

Co-Producing Tools for Participation and Action in Urban Environments

Corelia E. Baibarac
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781522508274|ISBN10: 1522508279|EISBN13: 9781522508281
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0827-4.ch007
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Baibarac, Corelia E. "Co-Producing Tools for Participation and Action in Urban Environments." Enriching Urban Spaces with Ambient Computing, the Internet of Things, and Smart City Design, edited by Shin'ichi Konomi and George Roussos, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 128-144. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0827-4.ch007

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Baibarac, C. E. (2017). Co-Producing Tools for Participation and Action in Urban Environments. In S. Konomi & G. Roussos (Eds.), Enriching Urban Spaces with Ambient Computing, the Internet of Things, and Smart City Design (pp. 128-144). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0827-4.ch007

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Baibarac, Corelia E. "Co-Producing Tools for Participation and Action in Urban Environments." In Enriching Urban Spaces with Ambient Computing, the Internet of Things, and Smart City Design, edited by Shin'ichi Konomi and George Roussos, 128-144. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0827-4.ch007

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Abstract

The chapter addresses the potential of co-production in relation to enhancing the participation of a city's inhabitants in its design, management and use. It does this by discussing a co-design process, which explored how participation might be extended to the design of digital platforms that could allow city inhabitants to be involved in the identification of needs, goals and actions for their everyday environments. The chapter outlines three spatial-technological experiments involved in the co-design process and the resulting web 2.0 platform prototype, which illustrates how collaborative technologies might stimulate collective actions. Acknowledging the importance of creating opportunities and spaces for reflection within technology-enabled participatory processes, the notion of co-production is extended to the iterative and collaborative production of knowledge and actions for the city. In this conceptualization, inhabitants' role shifts from that of ‘users' or ‘consumers' to active (and reflective) ‘co-producers' of a more resilient city together with the decision-makers.

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