Report
2012
Finding Place: Discovering What Everyone Already Knows
- Where: DMG Practicum Whitepaper | spring | 2012
- Abstract
Traditional and currently evolving methods employed by designers to access the personal experience and knowledge of community members to facilitate public participation in project planning are often difficult and ineffective. In light of the growing use of technology to augment traditional processes of facilitating participation through primary sources, emerging methods utilizing secondary sources for gathering local knowledge, such as social media, are reviewed. Based on the promising evolution of knowledge interpretation through aggregated data streams created by social media, we propose new methods of accessing local knowledge through the use of web-based applications that will allow users to filter multiple unrelated data streams for personal interpretation and relevance to their specific projects, supplementing traditional methods of gathering local community knowledge. - Authors: Lillian Hancock, Mitchell Wood
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