Title: Citizen informatics: integrating urban data and design for future stakeholders

Authors: Carl Skelton; Jeremy Bowes; Martin Koplin; Jee Won Kim; Michael Carnevale; Nannini Lee Balki; Sara Diamond

Addresses: Gotham Innovation Greenhouse, 529 West 20th Street, Suite 6W, New York NY 10011, USA ' Faculty of Design, OCAD University, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, M5T1W1, Canada ' M2C Institute, City University of Applied Sciences Bremen, Flughafenallee 10, Raum 317, DE-28199 Bremen, Germany ' Gotham Innovation Greenhouse, 529 West 20th Street, Suite 6W, New York NY 10011 USA ' Visual Analytics Laboratory, OCAD University, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, M5T1W1, Canada ' Visual Analytics Laboratory, OCAD University, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, M5T1W1, Canada ' Visual Analytics Laboratory, OCAD University, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, M5T1W1, Canada

Abstract: This paper describes a range of existing software tools and prototypes for ICT-supported participatory urban design and planning as a subset of participatory governance, and outlines key features of a future software architecture capable of supporting urban planning and pre-design practices that are both more inclusive and more rigorously evidence-based than the current state of the art. The authors propose a scenario in which existing tools and practices can be adapted to co-evolve with complementary developments in the realms of data literacy and collaborative design media, towards the evolution of expert public realms, i.e., societies whose lay citizens could be as expert and engaged in matters of design and governance of complex built environments as researchers and professional experts are today. The paper is offered less as a compte-rendu of research than as an RFC (Request for Comment) in the spirit of Steve Crocker's RFC 1 of 1967.

Keywords: citizen informatics; digital literacy; data literacy; collaborative design; participatory design; participatory governance.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2019.098816

International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2019 Vol.11 No.1, pp.23 - 43

Published online: 02 Apr 2019 *

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