Minutes Participation Plenary 9

Visualisation and Public Participation

John Danahy gave a lecture about visualisation methods applied in public participation processes related to the redevelopment of the lakeview area in Mississauga located in the urban area of Toronto. John Danahy works at the Knowledge Media Design Institute which is a part of the Centre for Landscape Research at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Visualisation of a development area as a basis for public evaluation

Lecture Recording

• to be published here soon

Lecture Documents

All lecture documents are available for seminar participants from the password-protected Moodle area:

Seminar Presentation Slides

• John Danahy: Visual Thinking and Creativity

Additional Readings

• John Danahy: Bottom Up: The Lakeview Experiment
• Mark Lindquist, John Danahy: Community Initiated Public Participation: Altering the Urban Design Decision Making Process with Real-Time Immersive Visualization
• Thomas Seebohm,John Danahy: Towards Constructive Dialogue: Real-Time Visualization and Geographic Information Systems

Next Steps in the Seminar Process

The next plenary meeting is scheduled for the 12th of January 2010. The last sessions will be dedicated to the working groups' project biography presentation. These presentations will be divided into two parts: a summary report of the project biographies based on the Project_Biographies_Seminar_Public_Participation_09 and a summary of comparing core questions. This comparison will be organised as follows:

• Each group member will choose one of the project biographies' principal questions and compare the answers of his/her group members.
• The objective is to identify commonalities and differences, specialities and potential gaps.

Please finish your presentation with a short statement of what you think could be improved in the process you have found.