Citizenscape's Blog

Donegal Offline activities

citizenscape — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:55:53 +0000

This week is a busy week in promoting the “Citizenscape” website and concept. Meeting with AnTaisce and schools involved in the “Green Flag” initiative. It was a very receptive audience and we agreed to follow up with promotional material which is being printed up commercially at the moment. I think we will be able to get some schools involved in some blogging about their recycling, composting, etc activities. Meeting with the same group (different schools) on wednesday and thursday night. So all in all Citizenscape will be promoted to yet another audience.

Donegal Composting demo OB

citizenscape — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:36:55 +0000

We have just completed an outside broadcast (a 1st for us!), of a composting demonstration in Donegal Town. Was a bit worried this morning as I travelled over as it was raining heavily coming through the “Gap” (The Gap is a local valley that divides south and north Donegal). But luckily the weather cleared and the equipment was set up. Suzanne Tinney, our waste awareness officer gave a 1hour demonstration on composting: from setting up the bin, to what can be composted, why we should compost, to showing compost at various stages. The demonstration took place in Ashtree Garden Centre, Donegal town and was organised as part of a “healthy Gardening” course organised by the HSE and the Family Resource Centre.

We set up 2 cameras and a wireless mic. Prayed for the rain to stay at bay, but set up the webcaster R500 in the boot of the car just in case! All went well and the webcast will be on our site in the next day or so.

John Connell Awards

citizenscape — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:47:21 +0000

We didn’t get this, but the Noise Abatement Society thanked us for our efforts.

steve crawshaw

Tranquil Spaces Conference 9th October 2009

citizenscape — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:46:02 +0000

The GLA is organising a conference on ‘Tranquil Spaces’ on Friday 9th October at London Zoo, aimed at planners and open space professionals and managers, as well as noise professionals.
It includes practical application of recent research on tranquillity and soundscapes and support identifying Quiet Areas under the Environmental Noise Directive.
I will be presenting our work on Citizenscape and some aspects of SILENCE. There’s a prestigious list of speakers (and me) including the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. It promises to be an important and interesting event.

My presentation is here.

Bristol’s work in Citizenscape submitted for award

citizenscape — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:54:46 +0000

I have today submitted our work on the noise consultation to the Noise Abatement Society for consideration for their annual John Connell award for local authorities action on noise. The text of the submission is here. The awards will be given at the house of commons, so if we’re successful it should be some good publicity for the project. Fingers crossed!

Steve Crawshaw, Bristol CC

Reserarch note on Donegal Workshop

citizenscape — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:48:55 +0000

We had a great workshop at Donegal on Friday – I have done a full research note on my blog but the highlights are that Daragh and the team have got a great group together who are keen to start campaigning around getting government buildings to use sustainable energy as well as getting more cycle lanes in Donegal!!

Brussels Meeting

citizenscape — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:24:17 +0000

Was great to meet other partners this week. Thanks to Brano for hosting and to Paul for finding such a great hotel! I had an invite from Max Dixon at GLA yesterday to speak at a Tranquil Spaces conference in London. He’s particularly interested in our wok on Citizenscape so I think this will be a great opportunity for dissemination.

Breakout groups

citizenscape — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:20:32 +0000

We have now broken out into two groups. Paul is taking one group through the Viewfinder site and Stu is going through the filming with the second group

Donegal Citizenscape Workshop

citizenscape — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:19:48 +0000

17th June.

Welcome to the Donegal Citizenscape Workshop. We have 7 participants today who are all very interested in the environment and web technologies. Today we are hoping to demonstrate the citizenscape concept, and train users on the various widgets of the site and agree on a theme going forward from today. Already all our users here today have highlighted all the various web technologies they use on a day to day basis; Facebook, twitter, google search, youtube, bebo, etc

Students create films for Citizenscape in Bristol

annamcd — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:40:57 +0000

Film Students from the University of Bath who work with a studio in Bristol to get experience at real life film projects will be going out next week to film three short films. These films will be used as ‘virals’ to raise awareness of the issue of environmental noise pollution and direct people to the work being done through Citizenscape in Bristol. The light hearted film’s will use acting students from the university, encouraging people to find out more for themselves through the Citizenscape site. The films will be posted in a number of online locations including green.tv in order for them to travel. The great thing about this is their ideas are much fresher than we would hope to produce ourselves! Perhaps there are students in the other regions who would like to do something like this?