Knowledge Exchange: Improved community engagement through spatial and visualisation methods (ICE-SAV)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of York
Department Name: Stockholm Environment Institute
Abstract
New approaches to engage with different communities (residents of particular neighbourhoods but also groups with different expertise or knowledge - communities of interest) that incorporate or combine spatial (mapped based and linked to real places) and visualisation (three-dimensional views or abstract representations of information) tools hold considerable potential to improve interaction between and within groups. This improved engagement provides opportunities to improve the understanding of different viewpoints between and within communities but also to generate new knowledge or novel solutions to complex (often difficult) problems by allowing people to see things in a different way.
The 'Improving Community Engagement through Spatial and Visualisation methods' project saw groups of academics, charities, local government officers and community groups come together for three seminars to share and exchange their experiences of what approaches work where, when and for whom based on previously funded projects.
These discussions helped the seminar participants to make previously unrecognised linkages between methods used in their research and community engagement work. The seminars also identified gaps in our understanding that require further research together with opportunities to apply and combine methods in new contexts, with different communities, to improve the engagement of stakeholders in real world decision making.
The 'Improving Community Engagement through Spatial and Visualisation methods' project saw groups of academics, charities, local government officers and community groups come together for three seminars to share and exchange their experiences of what approaches work where, when and for whom based on previously funded projects.
These discussions helped the seminar participants to make previously unrecognised linkages between methods used in their research and community engagement work. The seminars also identified gaps in our understanding that require further research together with opportunities to apply and combine methods in new contexts, with different communities, to improve the engagement of stakeholders in real world decision making.
Publications
Cinderby S.
(2012)
Analyzing perceptions of inequalities in rural areas of england using a mixed-methods approach
in URISA Journal
Description | New approaches to engage with different communities (residents of particular neighbourhoods but also groups with different expertise or knowledge - communities of interest) that incorporate or combine spatial (mapped based and linked to real places) and visualisation (three-dimensional views or abstract representations of information) tools hold considerable potential to improve interaction between and within groups. This improved engagement provides opportunities to improve the understanding of different viewpoints between and within communities but also to generate new knowledge or novel solutions to complex (often difficult) problems by allowing people to see things in a different way. The 'Improving Community Engagement through Spatial and Visualisation methods' project saw groups of academics, charities, local government officers and community groups come together for three seminars to share and exchange their experiences of what approaches work where, when and for whom based on previously funded projects |
Exploitation Route | These discussions helped the seminar participants to make previously unrecognised linkages between methods used in their research and community engagement work. The seminars also identified gaps in our understanding that require further research together with opportunities to apply and combine methods in new contexts, with different communities, to improve the engagement of stakeholders in real world decision making. |
Sectors | Creative Economy Education Environment |
URL | http://www.sei-international.org/ice-sav/ |
Description | Charity Groundwork Trust UK and Social Enterprise Mapping for Change participated in the knowledge exchange informing their methods and practice |
First Year Of Impact | 2011 |
Sector | Environment |
Impact Types | Societal Economic |
Description | Joint Submission to ESRC Urban Transformations Proposal |
Organisation | Abertay University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Joint develop of proposal to the Urban Transformations call: PROSE - Public Realm Open Space Evolution Subtitle: Urban Transformations - Evolution of governance and social innovation in Public Realm Open Spaces |
Collaborator Contribution | Took on the role of Principal Investigator to develop and submit the proposal |
Impact | Project website (see URL above) with supporting videos outlining the concept of Eco-cultural Production |
Start Year | 2011 |
Description | Joint Submission to ESRC Urban Transformations Proposal |
Organisation | London Metropolitan University |
Department | Guildhall Faculty of Business and Law |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Joint develop of proposal to the Urban Transformations call: PROSE - Public Realm Open Space Evolution Subtitle: Urban Transformations - Evolution of governance and social innovation in Public Realm Open Spaces |
Collaborator Contribution | Took on the role of Principal Investigator to develop and submit the proposal |
Impact | Project website (see URL above) with supporting videos outlining the concept of Eco-cultural Production |
Start Year | 2011 |