On the 5th day of our Community Christmas, we are celebrating working in Easterhouse!
Pidgin Perfect were commissioned by Future City Glasgow to deliver a wide ranging digital literacy engagement programme, over June - September 2014, exploring the city through the eyes of enterprises, communities, and individuals. The Future Maps programme complements the Future City Data Team’s stakeholder engagement strategy to encourage more organisations, businesses and public services to open their data.
Future Maps was a a people-focused project. We worked closely with communities, organisations and individuals across the city. We invited people to map Glasgow and share their experiences of the city, using both digital and analogue tools. The workshops taught participants a variety of mapping techniques tailored to reflect the themes, locations and needs of each group. Some aspects of the workshops were left more open - allowing groups time to explore and experiment.Digital literacy and engagement was a key output, and building individuals confidence with digital resources has proved to be empowering for many participants and groups.
The programme was organised into a series of initiatives which focussed on themes and locations across the city: Citizen Mapping in the North East, #SocEntMap Glasgow, Young City Mapping, Mapping Parties, Dear Green Network and Heritage Mapping. Pidgin Perfect and Citizen Mappers across the city have uncovered unrecorded information, mapped neighbourhoods, citizen experiences and green networks, and shared this unique data on open source online maps for everyone to use.
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Over the course of three months, we worked with 32 organisations, charities, social enterprises, school and community groups. There were 338 citizen mappers in total, engaging with 9 mapping tools over the course of 30 mapping sessions.
With Future Maps, we collected stories and experiences of communities around Glasgow. We strove to create the people's map of the city, reflective of their use and navigation of Glasgow.
We take a look back on the project...
Glasgow aims to open a world of accessible city data gathered by everyone. With over 350 datasets, Glasgow is the city in the UK with the most open data.
Currently both organisational data and citizen data are provided by public and private organisations. This can be rich and detailed but it is still not capturing a true representation of the citizens’ experience of the city.
Digital Literacy and an Experimental Approach
Pidgin Perfect were commissioned by Future City Glasgow to deliver a wide ranging digital literacy engagement programme.
In addition, the Future Maps was very much a people-focused project. We worked closely with communities, organisations and individuals across the city. We invited people to map Glasgow and share their experiences of the city, using both digital and analogue tools.
We used a wide range of open mapping tools – both analogue and digital in workshop based environments. The engagement boosted individuals confidence with digital resources and the toolkit proved to be empowering for individuals and groups who valued it as a future asset in their personal and perhaps within their own community groups.
The community sessions generated a unique insight into the workings of the city; exploring it through the eyes of a diverse cross section of it's inhabitants. The datasets and map layers were also entirely open source and available to all!
The Future Maps experimental approach - explore, adapt, test, refine, feedback - has allowed us to gauge how effective each digital tool was in undertaking a wide ranging engagement project.
Initiatives, Themes and Locations
The programme was organised into a series of initiatives which focussed on themes and locations across the city.
Citizen Mapping
Mapping and digital literacy sessions in the North East.
#SocEntMap Glasgow
A guided, online programme for Social Enterprises, ethical and sustainable businesses to map themselves using existing open tools.
Young City Mapping
Working with schools and youth groups to gather young people’s experience of the city and explore how open data could be used in their communities.
Mapping Parties
Large scale, celebratory public events held to map a particular theme held in collaboration OpenStreetMap Scotland.
Dear Green Network
Mapping Glasgow’s grass roots: greenspaces, growing spaces, wild areas and the connections between them.
Heritage Mapping
Working in collaboration with Dennistoun Community Council to create a walking mobile application.
The Future of Mapping Engagement
When we worked with online mapping tools, everyone in the room had a chance to learn through doing: citizens made live changes to the open data; the same data that everyone else in the world will see.
Over the relatively short course of this project, we have witnessed first-hand how mapping has the potential to widen the reach of community workshopping, improve an individual’s digital literacy and technical confidence and create a unique body of lived knowledge which is open to all.
We tapped into the energetic stream of open source projects which are building around maps and mapping and encourage other organisations to do so. The possibilities of mapping are infinite.
You can find more information about the project here
Since May, Pidgin Perfect have been working with Future City to deliver a wide ranging literacy programme, exploring Glasgow through the eyes of enterprises, communities, and individuals.Using a toolkit of open source applications, citizens and groups have been mapping their communities, services and environments.
As our 'Future Maps' project enters it's final weeks, we look back through the photos of just some of the wonderful people we've met and the communities that have been mapped.
Whilst we are reminiscing, we thought we'd give you a sneak peek into a what a typical day of digital mapping looks like. This is what happened when we went to.....
The Concrete Garden
One of Glasgow’s most invaluable resources lies in the beautiful offerings of green space that are spread across the city. Our parks, our gardens, our allotments and our backcourts: these pockets of green that bring colour to our daily lives.
This citizen mapping session engaged with a group of growers at the Concrete Garden. The session began with a short introductory activity with each participant giving their name and detailing their favourite vegetable. Tomatoes were a clear winner, perhaps due to the bumper crop this summer!
First up was Analogue Mapping; mapping with paper maps and keyed icons. Each participant was asked to locate their residence and their favourite place to eat in the nearby area. This was followed by an open mapping session where the group suggested and added to the map a number of local green, growing and community spaces. Most workshops developed from small details; favourite places and activities, which then grew into an intuitive community map indicative of a collective lifestyle.
The group was then split into two smaller working groups and encouraged to learn and explore Digital Mapping tools .
One of the groups went to the Greenhouse Workshop to explore Pushpin and iPad mapping applications. Pushpin and Mapillary are easily accessible mapping tools. Pushpin allow users to edit point data only, whilst the latter is a smart phone application that allows users to map their journeys (walking, driving and cycling) through their city with a series of photographs.
Another group went off into the Potting Shed to dig deep into Open Street Map; a more complex application offering users the opportunity to map a wide range of data. They could map Points, Lines (roads and paths), as well as new Areas (postcodes and buildings.)
By the end of the training session participants were vocal about the benefits of mapping. They observed how their new skills could be used as a resource for mapping their individual placing within the city as well as their collective involvement with the Concrete Garden.
The mapped outputs produced by communities and Pidgin Perfect across Glasgow have empowered citizens; offering them tools to contribute to the urban landscape of their city.
This month, Pidgin Perfect will be visiting and re-visiting Tinto Primary School, The Concrete Garden, Maryhill Integration Network, C-Change, Glasgow City Council Modern Apprentices Scheme.
More information about Future Maps can be found here
How does knowing how citizens use the urban landscape affect and improve how the city is managed? The Future Maps demonstrator is aimed at creating a more coordinated view of the city, capturing and sharing citizen’s knowledge and experience to produce maps which are open for everyone to use and understand.
Pidgin Perfect will be working with Future City to deliver a wide ranging literacy programme, exploring Glasgow through the eyes of enterprises, communities, and individuals. The initiatives we will cover share an approach to engaging citizens and groups in the mapping of their communities, services and environments.
‘Future Maps’ will be delivered through the use of an intuitive and engaging toolkit, built to be shared through the web and social media and will develop a lasting legacy of the Future City project: empowering individuals in Glasgow, Scotland, and internationally, to run similar events and make their own maps. Over the course of the demonstrator there will be opportunities for refining the toolkit, building on experience and feedback from participants.
The full toolkit will be launched on project completion as an open source output under a Creative Commons license to help others apply the OPEN Glasgow approaches to their own projects. Elements of the toolkit will also be shared in open formats through platforms like Github - a online community for testing and collaborating on new software, code and data formats - as well as adding to the existing provision of tutorials on the OpenStreetMap Wiki - a user-editable online platform for sharing information about mapping tools and methods - adding value back to the existing mapping community.
Through the Future Maps demonstrator, Pidgin Perfect will connect with groups across Glasgow for the five mapping initiatives: Easterhouse, Social Enterprise, “My Life” School Workshops, Green & Food Networks, and, Heritage. Additionally there will be several Mapathons - open community mapping events - held with existing mapping community of Open Street Map Scotland and will bring digital mapping to even wider audiences.
The mapped outputs produced by communities and Pidgin Perfect across Glasgow will provide an inclusive template which will empower citizens and give them the tools to have meaningful inputs into the urban landscape and how their communities are managed in the future.
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