XR Technologies for Enhancing Urban Environmental Analysis and Public Engagement
(2023) Radical Entanglements: Architectures, Societies, Environments, Politics — Location: Endhoven (31.August.2023)
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- ‘Raising urban temperatures, air pollution, water levels, water pollution, and noise pollution, among others, can not only severely damage the natural and built environments but can also impact the health and well-being of the citizens. Therefore, urban health is one of the most pressing questions that stakeholders and policymakers must address today. In the last two decades, many cities have adopted innovative resilience strategies, technologies, and policies to control the emission of pollutants as well as to promote sustainable urban development. However, many of these initiatives have concluded that long term success would also require investing in the environmental literacy of the general population. Therefore finding approaches to guide and enhance the citizens’ understanding of complex and interconnected urban environmental issues and the impact of small daily decisions are critical.The research argues that in order to communicate complex and nuanced urban environmental issues, we need to adopt engaging and data-driven information representation and discussion methods. Therefore, this research presents the application of Extended Reality (XR) media, including Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), to evaluate citizens’ background knowledge and perceptions of urban environmental phenomena. Recent literature demonstrates that XR media enable embodiment, interaction, and immersion, which could lead to impactful feedback mechanisms for collecting feedback granular from the participants. This research uses detailed urban models and analysis, which are experienced through VR and AR technologies. This research will be presented through two studies, a VR study focused on the city of Brussels’ urban green infrastructure and an AR study focused on the city of Miami’s water issues. Through these case studies and the authors’ previous work developing citizen- centric media, the aim is to demonstrate the effectiveness of XR representational strategies for the engagement of citizens in urban health risk assessment and policy making.
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Llaguno, M., & Bogosian, B. (2023). XR Technologies for Enhancing Urban Environmental Analysis and Public Engagement. Radical Entanglements: Architectures, Societies, Environments, Politics, Endhoven. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/29142