TY - JOUR
T1 - Engaging design for ecological citizenship
T2 - Informing approaches to human‐nature interactions
AU - Phillips, Robert
AU - Matsuda, Naho
N1 - Funding Information: The work was funded through EPSRC funding grant EP/P006353/1 and an EPSRC ‘Telling Tales’ engagement grant.
PY - 2022/3/1
Y1 - 2022/3/1
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic forefronted public urban and suburban nature interactions. ‘Human‐nature interactions’ produce positive health impacts, knowledge production, risk perception, sustainable behaviour, engagement in conservation and more. Governmental and charitable reporting documents ‘nature deficit disorder’. The Design Economy report (2021) highlights that social, environmental and economic design must engage communities. Ergo, building community empowerment, is paramount to catalyse and embed sustainable design practices. The authors define a contemporary design space, unpick strategies and present ‘approaches to human‐nature interactions’ insights. The My Naturewatch (NW) project features an accessible DIY camera trap, fostering beneficial nature engagements regardless of location, technological and/or wildlife expertise. NW is central within the outlined design space. The article reports on NW deployment(s) and catalysing organizations and communities. Three studies include: (1) The Wildlife Trusts #30dayswild, digital campaign, (2) The Durrell Trust, placed-based activity and (3) Nova New Opportunities, working with re-located communities. The authors acknowledge communities are sacrosanct and a substantial sustainable design asset for regeneration. The work leverages contemporary ‘phy-digital’ engagements, highlighting practices of social, environmental and public design spaces. The findings insights benefit cultural institutions, practitioners, conservation projects and more.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic forefronted public urban and suburban nature interactions. ‘Human‐nature interactions’ produce positive health impacts, knowledge production, risk perception, sustainable behaviour, engagement in conservation and more. Governmental and charitable reporting documents ‘nature deficit disorder’. The Design Economy report (2021) highlights that social, environmental and economic design must engage communities. Ergo, building community empowerment, is paramount to catalyse and embed sustainable design practices. The authors define a contemporary design space, unpick strategies and present ‘approaches to human‐nature interactions’ insights. The My Naturewatch (NW) project features an accessible DIY camera trap, fostering beneficial nature engagements regardless of location, technological and/or wildlife expertise. NW is central within the outlined design space. The article reports on NW deployment(s) and catalysing organizations and communities. Three studies include: (1) The Wildlife Trusts #30dayswild, digital campaign, (2) The Durrell Trust, placed-based activity and (3) Nova New Opportunities, working with re-located communities. The authors acknowledge communities are sacrosanct and a substantial sustainable design asset for regeneration. The work leverages contemporary ‘phy-digital’ engagements, highlighting practices of social, environmental and public design spaces. The findings insights benefit cultural institutions, practitioners, conservation projects and more.
KW - community
KW - design strategy
KW - engaging design
KW - nature engagement
KW - open design
KW - participatory
KW - sustainability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85132435394&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1386/dbs_00032_1
DO - 10.1386/dbs_00032_1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85132435394
SN - 2055-2106
VL - 8
SP - 39
EP - 68
JO - Journal of Design, Business and Society
JF - Journal of Design, Business and Society
IS - 1
ER -