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31st May: Towards participatory urban analytics: dialogic data innovations for just sustainability transformations and urban resilience
May 31, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Towards participatory urban analytics: dialogic data innovations for just sustainability transformations and urban resilience
João Porto de Albuquerque, Professor in Urban Analytics at Urban Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow and Deputy Director of the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC)
Wednesday 31st May, 12.30-1.30pm, Cottrell 2V1 and streamed on Teams (contact the seminar organiser for the Teams link).
This seminar is open to all staff, students and affiliates of the University of Stirling. The seminar is hosted by Biological and Environmental Sciences (BES).
Who this may appeal to: Researchers and practitioners interested in participatory approaches to urban analytics for equitable and just sustainability transformations, global development, urban resilience and disaster risk reduction.
Abstract: Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and have increasing impacts, which disproportionately affect marginalised and impoverished communities. To support adaptation to the new climatic conditions, this talk presents and evaluates a novel methodological approach for co-producing urban data innovations for sustainability transformations, which draws on the dialogic pedagogy of Paulo Freire to contribute to achieving just, inclusive, and equitable futures. This approach has been used in the international transdisciplinary projects “Waterproofing Data” and “URBE Latam” with multiple study sites in Brazil and Colombia. T=Results of these projects show that these methods have expanded the data types used in disaster risk management and engaged more diverse social groups in data generation, circulation, and usage. Based on this, I will present an emerging framework of data-enabled transformation pathways that exploit a wider set of transformative roles of data for co-producing just, climate-resilient pathways. The outcomes provide evidence that this approach to participatory urban analytics can not only contribute to filling data gaps and supporting more equitable disaster risk governance but also to democratising decision-making, e.g., empowering citizens living in socio-ecological risk areas to turn warnings into early action to protect lives and livelihoods.
Bio: João Porto de Albuquerque is Professor in Urban Analytics at Urban Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow and Deputy Director of the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), where he leads the theme on “Urban Sustainability and Participation“. Professor Porto de Albuquerque is a geographer and computer scientist with an interdisciplinary background. His research adopts a transdisciplinary approach to participatory urban analytics. His approach is underpinned by the investigation of inventive methods that bridge critical, participatory and geo-computational methods to include a plurality of voices in urban data analytics, with the goal of enabling transformations to urban sustainability and climate resilience.
Professor Porto de Albuquerque is currently leading a research programme centred around the empowerment of vulnerable and deprived communities with digital footprints and citizen-generated data to improve resilience to health and environmental risks. He has secured competitive research funds (£5.5m+ as PI; £17m+ as Co-I) from diverse national and international funding bodies (e.g. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Challenges Research Fund, Leverhulme Trust, AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC, Belmont Forum, NIHR, EU H2020, FAPESP, CAPES) in collaboration with academic and non-academic partners in several countries, including Australia, Brazil, Bangladesh, Colombia, Ghana, Germany, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United States.
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