Centre for Digital Citizens

Image representing the Centre for Digital Citizens, showing the name and logo of the centre and a series of hand illustrated blue and orange cards - with images of animals and prompts such as "politics" or "ecology" or "culture", from a deck created for the project.

Outputs from this project

Sebastian Prost, Nick Taylor, Angelika Strohmayer, Henry Collingham, Debora De Castro Leal, Max Krüger, Jen Liu, Clara Crivellaro, and John Vines. 2023. Bringing Sustainability through, in, and of HCI into Conversation. In Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 127–130. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563703.3591459

Sebastian Prost, Vasilis Ntouros, Gavin Wood, Henry Collingham, Nick Taylor, Clara Crivellaro, Jon Rogers, and John Vines. 2023. Walking and Talking: Place-based Data Collection and Mapping for Participatory Design with Communities. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2437–2452. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596054

The Centre for Digital Citizens (CDC) is a Next Stage Digital Economy centre, which takes an inclusive, participatory approach to the design and evaluation of new technologies and services that support ‘smart’ and ‘data-rich’ living in urban, rural and coastal communities. Centre researchers work with citizens and partners to co-design sustainable ‘Digital Social Innovations’ that ensure technologies applications support diverse communities and have long-lasting social value and impact beyond the life of the Centre.

The Centre is led by Newcastle University, with researchers based at Northumbria University, University of Edinburgh and University College London as academic partners. The Design Informatics team are primarily involved in the work on the centre that has focused on sustainable agroecology, working with sustainable famers exploring the role of novel technologies in supporting agroecological practices.

Collaborators: Dave Kirk, Abigail Durrant, Clara Crivellaro, Nick Taylor (Newcastle University), Jon Rogers (Northumbria University), Sebastian Prost (City St.Georges)

Website: https://digitalcitizens.uk/

Funder: EPSRC Digital Economy Theme

Project dates: 2020 – 2026