Living Laboratory for e-Planning
Code
10070
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente
Credits
9.0
Total hours
60
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
- To develop analytical capacity and new research methodologies in e-Planning
- To be able to evaluate the needs of a community in the context of the e-Planning agenda
- To know how to introduce / reformulate ICT in a real community, to contribute to a useful goal, in such way as to evaluate impact and results
- To aquire familiarity as much with the design and implementation of the product / solution, as with the analytical study of the institutional/social component and theme of the problem.
Students should be able to
- produce a diagnose and critical reflection on predominant planning practices
- be able to do user needs assessment in e-Planning
- to have the capacity to prototype solutions in e-Planning
Subject matter
1) Project in Community (Living Lab)
• characterize a social need
• identify the role of ICT and the institutional context
• identify an ePlanning kind of problem that can be the object of intervention in 3 months
• Propose the introduction of a hard/soft and/or procedural tool
• develop prototype
• Implement the project
• obtain feedback
• write paper
2) UNA Theory (User Needs Assessment)
3) Sessions for mutual learning
-- Compilation of human resources (tools methods) within the group of students
-- Practice and learning led by students in fucntion of their expertise.
4) Hard/Soft Tools:
- HTML;
- LiveCode/- RunRev;
- Data Bases
- GIS
- Sensors (ex. PM2.5)
- Collaborative tools (Video Conf, shared text, etc.)
5) Procedural Tools:
- User Needs Assessment
- Interview Guide / what data to compile
- Institutional State-Machine
- Narrative (L.Colini)
Bibliography
Ferraz de Abreu, P. (ed.) (2012). "Projectos e-Planning: As Primeiras Jornadas". CITIDEP Press, ISBN 978-989-98661-0-2
Fayez Shafloot (2010), “Needs Chain Model”, Interdisciplinary PhD. Program in Evaluation, Western Michigan University. American Evaluation Association San Antonio, Texas, November 2010
Kaufman, R. (2006). Change, Choices, and Consequences: A Guide to Mega Thinking and Planning. Amherst, MA. HRD Press Inc.
IMLS et al (2003) “Assessment of End-User Needs in IMLS-Funded Digitization Projects”, Institute of Museum and Library Services, October 2003
Westbrook, L. (2002), Identifying and Analyzing User Needs: A Complete Handbook and Ready-to- Use Assessment Workbook with Disk. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2002.
Ferreira, Joseph Jr.. (1998). "Information Technologies that Change Relationships between Low-Income Communities and the Public and Non-profit Agencies that Serve Them," Chapter 7 in High Technology and Low. Cambridge. MIT Press
Teaching method
Teaching methodologies reflect the need to ensure the development of a project by doctoral students.
In this sense, teaching is done through several practical classes, but especially through the Laboratory work, which is supervised by the leading professor and several invited experts, depending on the thematic area of individual projects.
Evaluation method
Class Presentations (10%);
Contribution to research withing e-Planning community (10%);
Team Project and Presentation (30%);
Individual Article for publication, to be submitted to a “referreed” Journal in the ePlanning area, according to editorial rules of the Journal, (50%)