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Current Projects
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Mapping informal sports and recreation opportunities with refugee youth (Map4Rec)
Creating informal sports and recreation opportunities is crucial for the well-being of youth. Yet there are multiple barriers to the equal presence in outdoor activity landscapes, such as accessibility and inclusion. For temporarily displaced youth, additional barriers relate to the inability to explore their new environments without the supervision of adults, and to the lack of knowledge of accepted social behavior and affordances offered by public spaces. In this project, we introduce youth from Ukraine temporarily residing in refugee facilities in Twente to citizen science and engage them in the active exploration and mapping of informal places for sports and recreation. During the summer vacations (August 2023), participants will explore their new environments through bicycle field trips, collecting data — through observation, but also sensors — on places for outdoor activities. In October, they will learn to analyse and visualise collected data using geospatial tools. Apart from providing space for the restoration of basic needs such as sociality and safety (which are known to contribute to well-being) the project will introduce participants to the exciting world of geospatial data and tools in a youth-friendly way. This project is funded by IMPETUS, and the team that I am leading as the project PI includes Javier Martinez (ITC, UT) and Kateryna Miller (an external stakeholder).
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Enhancing citizen science with youth through co-creation, technology and design thinking
Embedded in the series of geographic citizen science projects where temporarily displaced youth explores their new environments (Water Rangers Twente, 2022; Map4Rec, 2023), this project seeks to deepen the impact of citizen science with youth. The project includes exploratory activities of two types: co-creation workshops (aimed at advancing methods for playful co-creation of future projects) and educational micro-modules (aimed at developing and evaluating educational materials on several cross-cutting subjects such as geospatial technology, design thinking, and sustainability). The final goal of the project is to enrich citizen science with youth, while increasing and diversifying its impact. This project is funded by the DesignLab Research Fellows Fund.
Media
In the press
- Citizen science with temporarily displaced youth, an interview to Natuur en Milieu based on the "Water Rangers Twente" project, 30/09/22
- Citizen Science, an interview to IP vakblad voor de informationprofessional, with Wieteke Willemen and Nina Schwarz, 27/06/22
News on utwente.nl
- Case study: Geographic Citizen Science, an interview to the Citizen Science Hub Twente sharing the history and current stance of Geographic Citizen Science at ITC, 9/01/22
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Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Langezijds
(building no. 19), room 1233
Hallenweg 8
7522NH Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Langezijds
1233
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands