Paper Info
Title
Setting up a public participation project using the urban mediator tool: a case of collaboration between designers and city planners
Abstract
The Urban Mediator software is a web-based framework for sharing, obtaining and gathering location-based information. This paper presents an overview of the possibilities and limitations of this system for end-user development and co-design. The issues are analyzed through the case study of a public citizen participation project that used the software and was set up in collaboration between designers from the University of Art and Design Helsinki, and planners from the City of Helsinki Planning Department, during spring 2008. The collaborative work between the design team and the city planners, as well as the flexible and extensible features of the Urban Mediator, enabled the setting up of a successful small scale urban planning participative project as well as the further development of the Urban Mediator system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1463160.1463239
NordiCHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
design helsinki,public participation project,urban mediator,urban mediator software,end-user development,urban mediator system,urban mediator tool,helsinki planning department,city planner,urban planning participative project,case study,public citizen participation project,urban planning,co design
Co-design,Public participation,Locative media,Computer science,End-user development,Software,Human–computer interaction,Urban planning,Design team
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.46
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joanna Saad-Sulonen1607.91
Andrea Botero Cabrera292.04