Tags:Citizen science, Co-creation, Community engagement, Gaming, IPD and Knowledge graphs
Abstract:
Co-creation refers to the highest level of community engagement in project planning/scoping. Traditional engagement mechanisms tokenized the engagement or focused on information sharing. Advanced engagement approaches engage communities in decision-making, where professionals (such as planners and engineers) design a project based on the profile of community needs and using their technical knowledge. State-of-the-art means for communicating and profiling the community in this type of engagement is to use games designed by professionals. Through developing and using a game, professionals can deliver basic information to citizens more effectively and also solicit their feedback. Co-creation aims to engage the community in innovating/developing the solution itself—not just choosing between already developed designs. The community has local knowledge that is as valuable as the technical knowledge of professionals. Both collaborate to generate new solutions. In this approach, if games are used, then professionals and citizens have to be players. The interactions, profiling and discovery of knowledge must be two-way. IPD brings a similar mentality of collaboration and evolutionary decision-making to the construction industry.
IPD+C: Co-Creating Projects Through Gaming as a Service