Re-Making Places: HCI, 'Community Building' and Change
Civic Tech, Participation and Society
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Crivellaro, Clara
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Taylor, Alex
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Vlachokyriakos, Vasillis
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Comber, Rob
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Nissen, Bettina
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Wright, Peter
Proceedings of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems
2016-05-07
v.1
p.2958-2969
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: We present insights from an extended engagement and design intervention at
an urban regeneration site in SE Lon-don. We describe the process of designing
a walking trail and system for recording and playing back place-specific
stories for those living and working on the housing estate, and show how this
is set within a wider context of urban renewal, social/affordable housing and
"community building". Like prior work, the research reveals the frictions that
arise in participatory engagements with heterogeneous actors. Here we
illustrate how material interventions can re-arrange existing spatial
configurations, making productive the plurality of accounts intrinsic in
community life. Through this, we provide an orientation to HCI and design
interventions that are concerned with civic engagement and participation in
processes of making places.