The Urban Belonging Photo App: A toolkit for studying place attachments with digital and participatory methods

Q1 Social Sciences
A. Madsen, Sofie Burgos-Thorsen, Carlo De Gaetano, D. Ehn, M. Groen, S. Niederer, Kathrine Norsk, Thorben Simonsen
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Abstract

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 to make the app as inclusive as possible. We document how design criteria were translated into app features, and we demonstrate how this opens new empirical opportunities for community engagement through examples of its use in the Urban Belonging project in Copenhagen. While the focus on photo capture animates participants to document experiences in a personal and situated way, metadata such as location and sentiment invites for quali-quantitative analysis of both macro trends and local contexts of people’s experiences. Further, the granularity of data makes both a demographic and post-demographic analysis possible, providing empirical ground for exploring what people have in common in what they photograph and where they walk. And, by inviting participants to react to others’ photos, the app offers a heterogeneous empirical ground, showing us how people see the city differently. We end the paper by discussing remaining challenges in the tool and provide a short guide for using it.
城市归属照片应用程序:一个用数字和参与式方法研究地点依恋的工具包
本文介绍了开源的城市归属(UB)工具包,该工具包旨在通过结合数字、视觉和参与性的方法来研究场所依恋,从而突出生活体验。该工具包的核心是photovoice UB应用程序,它鼓励参与者通过拍摄城市照片,注释它们,并对其他人的照片做出反应,以数字数据的形式记录城市体验。该工具包还包括一个API接口和一组用于将数据转换为可视化和启发设备的脚本。论文首先描述了应用程序的设计规范是如何在一个过程中共同创建的,这个过程汇集了来自不同研究领域的声音,来自Gehl建筑事务所的规划师,六个边缘化社区和公民参与专业人士。他们的意见决定了应用程序可以收集哪些数据,以及它如何减轻隐私、视觉和空间素养问题,以使应用程序尽可能具有包容性。我们记录了如何将设计标准转化为应用程序功能,并通过在哥本哈根城市归属项目中的使用实例,展示了这如何为社区参与开辟新的经验机会。虽然对照片捕捉的关注激发了参与者以个人和情境的方式记录体验,但位置和情绪等元数据要求对人们体验的宏观趋势和当地背景进行定性定量分析。此外,数据的粒度使人口统计学和后人口统计学分析成为可能,为探索人们在拍摄的照片和行走的地方有什么共同点提供了经验基础。通过邀请参与者对其他人的照片做出反应,该应用程序提供了一个异质的经验基础,向我们展示了人们如何以不同的方式看待这座城市。最后,我们讨论了该工具中仍然存在的挑战,并提供了一个简短的使用指南。
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Methodological Innovations
Methodological Innovations Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science
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