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Ecosystem 2 Participatory Workshop

Practice: Urban Movement Tracking

As part of Open Eye's Look Climate Lab we wanted to visualize what travel by multiple.

participants in an urban ecology looks like. Seven participants gathered

their movement data across Liverpool for several days to make the traces of their

habits and energy expenditures more visible. Mapping utilities are most often

used by individuals to navigate or to track journeys. We use the same utilities

in a participatory open data process to visualize patterns generated by

the social metabolism of an urban space.

As well as data volunteers recorded information about the mode of transport

they used during each day. This allowed us to explore movement and

its relation to climate through the relative emissions each mode of

transport used and its impacts the local atmosphere and global climate.

The data also allows us to read how different agents move across a city

in repetitive or discontinuous patterns in their daily lives.

Looking forwards, we will explore how this approach can be mixed

with other media such as photography and sensor data to examine

how human and environmental health is intertwined with the

the decarbonisation of our travel patterns and how to approach this

alongisde an increase in quality and excitement within our daily lives.

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