A City in Common: A Framework to Orchestrate Large-Scale Citizen Engagement around Urban Issues
summary
A six-phase City Commons framework structures community-led sensing and runs a four-month pilot in Bristol that picks damp housing from three priorities and builds a mapping tool plus a low-cost frog box temperature/humidity sensor and classification algorithm to separate moisture from structural damp. Deployments in affected homes, data workshops and a data-jam that blends council Land Registry records reveal landlords responsible for many cases, attract council and housing groups, produce open-source designs on GitHub and a community spinoff business led by Damp Busters.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction to City Commons
- 1:12Smart city sensing challenges
- 2:35Citizen sensing and empowerment
- 4:43City Commons framework overview
- 6:05Identifying matters of concern
- 7:07Design and deployment phases
- 8:12Orchestration and outcomes
- 9:17Bristol case study introduction
- 10:02Damp housing problem and solution
- 11:30Workshops and community skills
- 12:38Orchestration and stakeholder collaboration
- 13:40Project outcomes and community impact
- 15:28Framework limitations and learnings
- 16:53Researcher role and sustainability
- 17:35Framework adoption and expansion
- 18:30Q&A on data governance
- 20:46Q&A on community scale and infrastructure
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