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On the 9th of September 2023, the TU Wien Library is inviting the public to a day of guided tours through our building as a part of the Open House Wien event. Participants will learn more about the role of research libraries as knowledge infrastructures and our Citizen Science activities. Open House Wien aims to open up architecture, encouraging the public to engage with their built environment. Being Austria’s largest university library for engineering and natural sciences, we will explain the history of our building and show places of learning and research as well as the otherwise not accessible library stacks and roof terrace. In our recently opened Data Visualisation Space (Davis), we will highlight our Citizen Science experiments carried out in OPUSH and show the advantages of data visualisation for urban innovation. The event will contribute to our goal of transforming the TU Wien Library into an open space for every citizen.
More information can be found at: https://openhouse-wien.at/plan/2023-tu-wien-bibliothek
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During Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th May OPUSH TU Delft organized workshop activities at the Maker Faire Festival. With the goal of discussing and co-designing from scratch the upcoming OPUSH CS pilots with citizens from Delft and organizations from Delft community that are already affiliated/connected to TU Delft University. The main OPUSH pilot that was brought under discussion was the Energy Transition pilot, that deals with energy loss in monument-listed buildings of Delft. Discussions with citizens of several backgrounds and demographics was consulted in order to explore the possibilities and development course of the OPUSH CS pilots. The level of expertise was also diverse that resulted in both general and specific suggestions, reactions, and comments.
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12 youth people aged 16-18 were the first citizens involved in the “Cròniques de la Calor” (Heat Chronicle) Citizen Social Science project. Their participation was articulated through the Fundació Comtal, a civil society organization that accompany children and young people in their social, educational and emotional growth in a specific Barcelona neighborhood. During the summer, they guarantee access of the kids and youth to leisure during the summer holidays, offering an inclusive, healthy and fun space outside the school year.
In this frame, we organized two workshops that were held at the Fundació Comtal premises, with the youth participating to the July summer camp. The sessions were designed so that the youth could shape the research according to their lived experiences in the neighborhood. This included a collective mapping process to investigate the most relevant public spaces for them and the heat sensation they were experiencing when visiting them. The youth also realized a walking journey where they measured the temperatures with low-cost sensors. After a first exploration of the results, they will be collectively interpreted and discussed in during the September month.
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The TU Wien library participated in the annual LIBER conference 2023 in Budapest. As a part of LIBER's Citizen Science Working Group, we’re developing guidelines for implementing Citizen Science in research libraries. This way, we’re advocating Citizen Science as one of the eight pillars in the League of European Research Universities’ (LERU) roadmap towards Open Science. In our working group meeting, we engaged in a lively discussion about our strategic directions, upcoming events and skilling for library staff. In a well-attended Pre-Conference Workshop at the Hungarian Academy of Science librarians and researchers were shown ways to develop a single point of contact for Citizen Science at their library, form sustainable partnerships and build a community of practice.
Find more information about the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group's activities at: https://libereurope.eu/working-group/liber-citizen-science-working-group/
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In the context of the redesign of Gumpendorfer Straße, not only experts but also citizens were invited to contribute their ideas to the planning process. In this participation process, it became apparent that the age group under 20 was underrepresented. The TU Wien Bibliothek and its research team therefore held a total of three workshops with students in May and June to collect and discuss their ideas and perspectives.
The goal of the project is to make the TU Wien Bibliothek an open place for exchange between science and society. With the Citizen Science experiments in the context of WP3 we want to collect basic experiences that will help us to promote this exchange.
At the same time, the participation process will be complemented with the ideas and needs of young people, making it more representative for all residents of the district of Mariahilf in Vienna.
During the workshops we worked out the research question together with the students and collected their needs and suggestions for the redesign of Gumpendorfer Straße.
- "die GUMPI_forschung." - Parents doing urban research
- Urban transformation process in Gumpendorfer Straße: first results of online-survey
- Urban transformation of large scale public street space: start of planning- and participation process
- Urban heat: twin citizen science projects in Barcelona and Vienna