Introducing digital methods for on-going civic engagement for design in public space: how mining and mapping social media data can help inform spatial designers about a local context

Submitted: May 2015

This paper (publication forthcoming) was written together with Saba Golchehr. I presented the paper at University of Hasselt’s conference ‘Design, Social Media and Technology to Foster Civic Self-Organisation’ (May 2015) and at University of Utrecht for the BA course Communication in social media (November 2015)

The conference in Hasselt was structured by the following tracks:

1. How can design, social media and technology encourage and empower citizens to take part in and/ or start up civic self-organisation practices?

2. How can design, social media and technology sustain civic self-organisation practices over longer time periods, and within a diversity of socio-economic contexts?

3. How can the impact of design, social media and technology on civic self-organisation practices be documented and evaluated?

The paper was directed at the second track of this conference; how design, social media and technology can sustain civic self-organisation practices over longer time periods, and within a diversity of socio-economic contexts. The conference was hosted by the University of Hasselt in collaboration with TRADERS.

May 2015

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