Toolkit – Making Sense

Making Sense: the Toolkit

Lucas Pena — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 18:40:39 +0000

We produced this book as a part of the Making Sense project, which draws on nine citizen sensing campaigns in Holland, Kosovo and Spain in 2016 and 2017. In them, we have developed a form of citizen participation in environmental monitoring and action which is bottom-up, participatory and empowering to the community: this is called citizen sensing. If you are interested in best practices and tools for community engagement and co-creation, this book if for you.

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D5.2 + D4.3 — Making Sense Framework & Assessment of Participatory Strategies

gui — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 12:19:57 +0000

This report offers a single entry point to those potentially interested in a final overview of Making Sense, either considering how its pilots were individually developed, or how the project as a whole managed to build a new collective approach for participatory sensing campaigns.

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D5.5 — Report and Assessment of Impact and Policy Outcomes Using Community Level Indicators

gui — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 14:03:34 +0000

This report examines the opportunities and challenges in using the concept of Community Level Indicators (CLIs), which are measurable and objective sources of information gathered to complement sensor data.

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D2.4 — Documentation on Toolkit add-ons

gui — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 14:01:19 +0000

The following document describes the effort carried out on Making Sense to develop and test the Smart Citizen Kit platform on real scenarios during the different pilots developed. This effort was carried out with the primary objective of creating a set of tools and resources around the SCK 1.5 that together with the previous D2.3 Documentation on Firmware to integrate sensors allows communities to develop their own sensing frameworks and strategies.

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D2.1 – Online Technical Toolkit

gui — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:37:51 +0000

This deliverable describes the design and implementation of the Making Sense Toolkit, and we present the aims of the toolkit and how they inform its design rationale.

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D5.4 — Community Level Indicators

gui — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 18:45:37 +0000

How do we begin to approach the complex issue of measuring the impact of participatory sensing? This is a challenge, particularly unique when taking a co-created approach that puts citizens at the centre of inquiry yet values the interests of stakeholders such as scientists, government, NGO’s and academia. This report proposes the theory and practice of Making Sense Community-Level Indicators can help assess near-term goals, but more significantly, social innovation and long-term impact.

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D4.2 — Co-designing participatory approaches for communities

gui — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:24:11 +0000

We envision citizens and their communities playing the leading role in creating, designing, building and implementing transdisciplinary bottom-up technical and social innovation strategies in all stages of the project and in their own houses, streets, neighbourhoods, cities, regions, or even countries. So, we shaped and organised a co-design and generative tools workshop where the main outputs could be used “on the ground” with a collective ownership.

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D6.2 + D4.1 — Mapping Participatory Sensing and Community-led Environmental Monitoring initiatives

llos — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:21:10 +0000

A summary of the state of the art in urban participatory sensing, the types of engagement approaches typically followed in participatory sensing, contextual examples of current developments in this fields, and current challenges and opportunities for successful interventions. The goal of this document is to better understand the field and possible options for reflection and action around it, in order to better inform future conceptual and practical developments inside and outside Making Sense.

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D2.2 — Documentation of Local Needs

llos — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:21:08 +0000

This report contains the results usability tests ran to better understand how participants make sense of the technologies required to conduct sensing experiments, with special focus on the Smart Citizen platform, which is the underlying technical infrastructure which Making Sense builds upon.

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D6.1 — Dissemination & Communications plan

gui — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:44:01 +0000

This report presents the overall communication and dissemination approach as well as the resources and actions that have been developed and will be rolled out to achieve the project’s goals.

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