Banchoff, Ann

de Jong, Johan

Jepkema, Nikki

van Holland, Berry

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CITIZEN SCIENCE TO PROMOTE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN A LOW-SES NEIGHBORHOODBerry van Holland, Nikki Jepkema, Johan de JongHanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, the NetherlandsBackgroundOne neighborhood in Groningen, the Netherlands, is aneighborhood housing about 12,000 citizens with on average alow-SES background, showing a less healthy and active lifestyle.The aim of this project was to engage citizens in the overallprocess of capturing, plan making and prototyping of conceptsfor an exercise-friendly physical and social environment.Methods & ResultsFrom January 2020 onwards a Living Lab was run following the“Our Voice” method combining citizen science and designthinking. Participatory citizen science was applied in which acommunity of stakeholders (public and private parties) andcitizens was built.Citizens used the Stanford Discovery Tool™ (figure 1) whichallowed for systematic observations of the physical environment.Additionally, research walks gave extra information onneighborhood barriers and facilitators. Collected data were usedin neighborhood meetings to discuss improvement of exercise-friendliness of the environment. Common themes were definedand ideas were generated (figure 2). Based on the discussionsand ideas, several prototypes were developed and evaluated byinvolved citizens. They were presented to local government andfurther developed for implementation and realization.Two of the most appreciated prototypes were walking routes.One of the walking routes passes all big art objects in theneighborhood, the other route runs along the bigger playgroundsand sports areas (figure 3). The whole development of bothroutes was facilitated by a small work group, including citizens,city officials, designers and researchers. During the whole citizenscience process around 150 citizens and other stakeholders havebeen involved.Figure 2. Neighborhood meetingKey messageCitizen science and design thinking are powerful tools to work oncommunity and neighborhood development. Application of digitaltechnology facilitated the participatory research process.https://www.hanze.nl/eng/research/centre-for-applied- research/centre-of-expertise-healthy- ageing/professorships/professorships/sports-scienceshttps://med.stanford.edu/ourvoice.htmlMore informationFigure 1. Stanford Discovery ToolHanze StanfordFigure 3. Walking routesAnn Banchoff, Abby C. KingStanford University, Stanford CA, United States of AmericaSponsoringThis project was sponsored byDutch funding organization ZonMw,The Netherlands Organisation forHealth Research and Development.

CITIZEN SCIENCE TO PROMOTE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN A LOW-SES NEIGHBORHOOD

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CITIZEN SCIENCE TO PROMOTE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN A LOW-SES NEIGHBORHOOD

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