Participatory Media: Creating Spaces for Storytelling in Neighbourhood Planning
summary
Fieldwork tests Bootleggers Eye with two neighbourhood planning groups — one midway, working with six of seven topic groups, and one at the start — and captures hundreds of short videos on people’s phones. Videos provoke visible shifts: dominant “expert” voices weaken as synchronous story capture reveals conflicting local perspectives, participants gain confidence filming and representing themselves, and the clips become videos as evidence that planners and examiners can use to link stories directly to policy. Results show participatory media can widen participation and make storytelling a tangible part of decision-making.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 0:28What is neighborhood planning
- 3:21Limitations of current participation methods
- 5:09Opportunities for innovation in planning
- 6:12Using participatory media tools
- 7:57Two case studies in storytelling
- 8:18Finding one: multiplicity of citizen stories
- 11:09Finding two: bridging storytelling models
- 14:40Implications for democratic processes
- 15:46Q&A session
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