Exploring teenagers' spatial practices and needs in light of new communication technologies

Costa, Carlos Smaniotto; Batista, Joana Solipa; Almeida, Inês; Menezes, Marluci

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2019.102574

Cited by 10 publications

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“…Cohen et al (2016) recognise the role that young people can play in bottom-up approaches to the smart city. Costa et al (2020) stress the positive role that ICT can play in involving teenagers in placemaking processes but warn about the potential challenges of ownership, privacy, and surveillance. Gamification approaches to e-participation in planning such as the use of Minecraft (Rexhepi et al, 2018) also provide new avenues for empowerment and engagement, promising a power shift towards youth.…”

Section: The Human-centred Smart Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Planning the Smart City With Young People: Teenagers’ Perceptions, Values and Visions of Smartness

Shtebunaev

Gullino

Larkham

2023

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Young people are often seen as “future citizens” and therefore relegated to a back seat in the planning process, awaiting their coming of age. Recent digital transformations in planning have brought new consultation processes but also created a digital divide and conflicting agendas. This article engages with youth, specifically teenagers, a heterogenous community stuck between childhood and adulthood, assumed to possess the necessary digital skills, but usually overlooked in participatory planning processes. This article will examine the case study cities of Manchester, Birmingham, Valencia, and Sofia, where 121 teenagers between 15 and 19 years of age have been interviewed in relation to their awareness and perceptions of digital technologies and smart cities. It focuses on critically examining young people’s perceptions and values towards the smart city. Using the smart city wheel as an engagement and discussion tool, the article presents teenagers’ critique of smart city models and future city visions. The article categorises common threads and values that this demographic has espoused and presents cautionary tales relating to awareness and skills development in this age group. Throughout the interviews and surveys, young people in all four case studies have reported strong affiliations to specific modes of inhabiting the city and values that they would like to see reflected in any future visions. The article identifies key considerations for planners and smart city practitioners when engaging young people in the creation of future city visions.

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Section: The Human-centred Smart Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Planning the Smart City With Young People: Teenagers’ Perceptions, Values and Visions of Smartness

Shtebunaev

Gullino

Larkham

2023

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“…However, recently several projects have developed Living Labs in greenspaces or urban parks, such as the CyberParks and C3Places project which used a Living Lab approach with teenagers using ICTs. These projects coined the term 'cyberpark' to define a new aspect of public open spaces integrated with technologies [29]. The projects found that engaging teenagers in placemaking required thinking outside the box [29] and can result in more informed and engaged participation in urban governance.…”

Section: Citizen Science and Placemaking: The Living Lab Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These projects coined the term 'cyberpark' to define a new aspect of public open spaces integrated with technologies [29]. The projects found that engaging teenagers in placemaking required thinking outside the box [29] and can result in more informed and engaged participation in urban governance. The iSCAPE project identified the following essential characteristics for Living Lab activities: multi-stakeholder participation, active-user involvement, a real-life setting, co-creation, and a multi-method approach [30].…”

Section: Citizen Science and Placemaking: The Living Lab Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Place-Keeping in the Park: Testing a Living Lab Approach to Facilitate Nature Connectedness in Urban Greenspaces

Willis

Gupta

2023

Sustainability

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Green infrastructure, particularly public greenspaces such as urban parks, plays an important role in urban environments, and improving public participation in greenspace practices and encouraging environmental stewardship can help to address some of the challenges of greenspace governance. We identify a gap in the research as to whether participation in citizen science projects can enhance connections between people and place and encourage better community participation in the stewardship of parks and urban greenspaces. The research adopts a Living Lab approach to utilise the inherent knowledge of the local community in developing digital experiments in the pilot site using a Nature Data Probe toolkit and seeks to explore its potential for enhancing nature connectedness by revealing hidden nature. We describe an action research method working with participants from a secondary school located close to a large urban park in Plymouth, UK. The results found that participants were more observant of hidden nature following the workshop and that an increase in the number of participants, and in the specific and descriptive responses identifying nature, was observed. These findings indicate that a deeper awareness of the natural environment was created and, in summary, we discuss the implications of this as a pathway to increased participation in greenspace governance.

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“…That led to it being difficult to motivate them to participate. Further details on the findings can be found in Smaniotto Costa et al (2020).…”

Section: Lisbon Living Labmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digitally Supported Co-creation within Public Open Space Development Process: Experiences from the C3Places Project and Potential for Future Urban Practice

Žlender

Erjavec

Marušić

2020

Planning Practice & Research

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This research aimed to explore information and communication technologies (ICT) types to support co-creation activities in public open spaces (POS) at different stages of the co-creation process. We conducted state-of-the-art research on the methods, best practices, obstacles and potential of ICT tools and co-creation activities to ease the interaction between stakeholders engaged in the process. Based on those findings, we proposed an ICT tools selection framework. Four living labs were analysed to better understand the practical side of digitally aided co-creation. We conclude by exposing challenges and suggest ways to move forward toward genuinely digitally supported co-creation of the POS.

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Exploring teenagers' spatial practices and needs in light of new communication technologies

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

Planning the Smart City With Young People: Teenagers’ Perceptions, Values and Visions of Smartness

Planning the Smart City With Young People: Teenagers’ Perceptions, Values and Visions of Smartness

Place-Keeping in the Park: Testing a Living Lab Approach to Facilitate Nature Connectedness in Urban Greenspaces

Digitally Supported Co-creation within Public Open Space Development Process: Experiences from the C3Places Project and Potential for Future Urban Practice

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