Northumbria University's Architecture and Built environment PGR sessions - current state of affairs and questions

1. ABE Christmas Special
Cycling in two cities
Comparison and context
Qualitative interviews
16 December 2015
Katja Leyendecker
PhD researcher
Northumbria University, Newcastle
Photo credit @amsterdamize

2. Conceptual Model
.. CYCLING ..
O B Jensen Model
Jensen, O. B. (2013). Staging mobilities: Routledge.

3. Conceptual Model
From above
• policy / politics
• planning
• engineering
Use / manifestation
• mode share
• social norms
• rules
• socio-demographics
• social
• personal
From below
.. CYCLING ..
O B Jensen Model
Jensen, O. B. (2013). Staging mobilities: Routledge.

4. Policy assessment
• Systematic review
Quantitative data
• Street level use
Qualitative data
• User perspective
Conceptual Model
Data collection (on street level)
.. CYCLING ..
O B Jensen Model
Jensen, O. B. (2013). Staging mobilities: Routledge.

5. Policy assessment
• Systematic review
Quantitative data
• Street level use
Qualitative data
• User perspective
Conceptual Model
Data collection (on street level)
.. CYCLING ..
O B Jensen Model
Jensen, O. B. (2013). Staging mobilities: Routledge.

6. Policy assessment
• Systematic review
Quantitative data
• Street level use
Qualitative data
• User perspective
Qualitative street user interviews
Hypotheses
• Street users are ‘spatially blind’ (at first) – performing puppets
• Re-imaging space (and its use) can be prompted
Questions
• What kind of prompting is (most) successful?
• How much prompting is needed?
Comparison
• What differences can be noted between the street users in
the two cities?

7. Policy assessment
• Systematic review
Quantitative data
• Street level use
Qualitative data
• User perspective
Choosing contextualised location
• Systemic problem of the school run *
• Childhood obesity, captivity etc on the increase
• Active travel reduces chance of obesity etc
>>> street outside a school (Bremen and NG)
Choosing e-portable street representation
• Photo(s), how many? or film, how long?
• Moving or static position?
• Adult’s or kid’s eye-level?
Choosing interview techniques
• Participants: street users but also policy-makers
• Thinking-aloud (TA) protocols (Bremen and NG)
• Followed by in-depth interview (use TA as prompt)
• Sequence of the activities?
Using supportive portable technology
• Eye-tracker (for TA interviews)
• EEG for ‘emotion’ tracking
* Hillman, M., Adams, J., Whitelegg, J., (1990). One false move: a study of children's independent mobility (Vol. 707). London:
PSI. and follow –on study Shaw, B., Watson, B., Frauendienst, B., Redecker, A., Jones, T., & Hillman, M. (2012). Children’s
independent mobility: a comparative study in England and Germany (1971‐2010) London: Policy Studies Institute.
Qualitative street user interviews

8. Policy assessment
• Systematic review
Quantitative data
• Street level use
Qualitative data
• User perspective
Putting it back together

9. Outcome
Appraisal of ‘space production’ policy
by the end user
Advice to policy –makers on
how end user thinks and
how to talk to the end user
Public-engagement framework for
space-change projects

10. Thanks for listening
Email katja.leyendecker@northumbria.ac.uk
Blog https://katsdekker.wordpress.com/
Twitter@katsdekker
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Photo credit @amsterdamize