The Co-Pro Futures Inquiry will propose measures to address barriers to #participatory and #coproduced research within universities and the higher education sector in the UK .
The Call for Evidence and Ideas is one key way that we want to gather collective intelligence to support the sector-wide deliberation and development of an action plan. We are opening the call for submissions until February 28th 2025. Details below! #CoPro #Codesign #citizenScience #ParticipatorResearch please share!

Barcamp London had a lot of good feedback last time, we discuss geeky passions, we're chill, friendly, welcoming, well organised, with great food, and the grassroots participatory nature makes it a really fun event

AND THERE IS LEGO!

https://thirteen.barcamplondon.org/

#Anarchism is the organization of the life of a #community of #free #individuals based on the principles of #autonomy and #personal #responsibility.

#mutual aid not #police
#co-ops not #bosses
#participatory #association not #taxes
#local #assemblies not #government

Food pedagogy for transformative social change

Chelsea Klinke
Gertrude Korkor Samar

#FoodSystems #SocialChange #FoodPedagogy #ActivistScholarship #Agroecology #Transformative #Community #FoodSecurity #Experiential #Participatory

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/485

[tbd] still not a camp

Het Groene Veld, Amsterdam, Friday, 5 July (09:00)

https://events.todon.eu/event/tbd-still-not-a-camp

Happy to share my last #research article, led by Joanna Suchomska and published on Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement

Digital tools for knowledge exchange and sustainable public food procurement in community kindergartens: A case study in Słupsk, Poland

https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/ijcre/article/view/8287

I work on #participatory methods as part of my artistic practice. So I’m delighted that the newly published Routledge Companion to #Creativity in the #BuiltEnvironment features a chapter on work I carried out between 2014–2018 on #codesign methods for #infrastructure to make cities more #resilient

SketchMapTool in practice

In collaboration with the Colombian and German Red Cross, we've put SMT to the test in various communities in Colombia. This case study shows how SMT facilitates #participatory #mapping by combining #analogue and #digital methods.

Here you'll find a short article about the project, as well as a document with all details:
https://preparecenter.org/resource/digitalizing-paper-based-community-mapping-in-the-evca/

live footage of me and Donald Schön about to embark on another #hci and #participatory design research effort

love this. Helsinki city library is the best
#participatory #library

There is a #Wikipedia proposal [0] to modify the 'Find general sources' template [1]. The template is used on nearly a million Wikipedia pages (esp. talk pages, not articles). Knowledge review circulates between search engines + meta-search engines, academic peer-reviewed papers, and Wikipedia - should #SurveillanceCapitalism retain its power here? This #OpenKnowledge decision-making is #transparent and #participatory.

@academicchatter

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Modify_Module:Find_sources/templates/Find_general_sources

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Find_sources/templates/Find_general_sources

Generative AI as Playable Media https://justinhodgson.com/2023/10/15/generative-ai-as-playable-media/ #AI #education #gamePlay #playfulness #participatory

It's unfortunate—and an opportunity for improvement—that 'anarchy' and 'anarchism' as a movement are terms defined in relation to what they are _not_.

#anarchy #anarchism #socialDecisionMaking #collaborative
#cooperative
#bottomUp
#grassroots
#participatory
#decentralization

@DigitalScholarX 4/ We engage workers around their own local challenges that they identify. These challenges are the ones that matter to the people they serve. Their expertise and insights drive the learning. #participatory

Not much work was done today, but I have been doing a bit of reading recently. Including some great work on #participatory #autism research by @krysiawally & Nathan Keates, and on academic #ableism & (independent) disabled scholars by Armineh Soorenian (a little too close to home & very important). Plus Sara Ahmed's 'Living a Feminist Life,' which *everyone* should read. Links: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003056577-28/autistic-voices-autistic-research-krysia-emily-waldock-nathan-keates - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351165082-25/margins-academia-outside-looking-armineh-soorenian - https://www.dukeupress.edu/living-a-feminist-life #AmReading #AcademicChatter

Hello I’ve recently moved so here is a new #introduction. I’m an academic working on #regional development and #governance. I’m especially interested in #migration, #urban planning, #labour, and more recently #participatory democracy. I’m an #economist by training but now do mostly #interdisciplinary work with colleagues in #geography #sociology and #philosophy. My hobby is #photography especially #macro and #landscapes, although I struggle to find the time. This is my crazy #dog Fonzie!

Last week "Quality of Life Research" #ISOQOL published 4 papers:
https://link.springer.com/journal/11136/online-first

For example,

#participatory item development & #IRT evaluation of the Vancouver Airways #Health Literacy Tool
https://rdcu.be/dgW5x
#Psychometrics

#HRQL among homeless individuals in Germany during the #COVID19 pandemic
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-023-03455-5

Secondary pooled analysis of the patient-reported outcomes in the ASPIRE I + II #RCTs in people living with #MDE
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-023-03451-9
#NCT03039192 NCT03097133

One of the most popular functions of #SocialMedia is people saying whatever it is they feel they need to say about the #political situation(s) of the moment. It's relentless, and I've done it too a number of times, though I do try to use social media for other topics more.

I think this constant use of social media for political comment is because we have almost no other way to participate politically except in casting votes every 2-4 years.

We need a proper #participatory political system.