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- Rönkkö, Kari, et al.
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Att vandra med andra - Digital platsbunden utställning Stadshuset
- 2023
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Konstnärligt arbete (refereegranskat)abstract
- Städer växer snabbt och en sådan tillväxt kräver att beslutsfattare och chefer fattar kloka beslut om tex markanvändning, transportsystem och rumslig layout. När städer växer och byggs om, blir det lika viktigt att minimera negativ miljöpåverkan som att säkerställa goda boendemöjligheter och jämlikhet för människor i staden. Denna typ av utmanande krav kan inte kommuner hantera enbart inom sin interna organisations. Intressenter och medborgares deltagande i beslutsfattande och förbättring av utformning och leverans av offentliga tjänster blir nödvändig. Med ökad urbanisering engagerar alltfler stadsstyrelser hållbara utvecklingsprojekt som syftar till att skapa urbana rum där välbefinnande främjas genom nya former av styrning och större ekonomisk, social och miljömässig hållbarhet. Detta gäller också Kristianstads kommun (region Skåne, Sverige) som initierade projektet “Klimatsmart Näsby”. Projektet sträckte sig över 2 och ett halvt år (från 1 januari 2021 till 28 februari 2023). Projektet bedrevs i ett samarbetsformat mellan Kristianstads kommun, Krinova Science & Incubator Park och Högskolan Kristianstad. Projektet finansieras av EU:s regionala utvecklingsfond och de tre partnerna. Där vi från HKR som presenterar denna utställning hade rollen att utforska hur medborgare kan involveras i denna typ av förändringsarbete. Att "vandra med andra" blev vår bärande designmetod för att inkludera det sociala ur ett medborgarperspektiv utifrån den situation som råder specifikt i Näsby och Gamlegården i Kristianstad - vilket också utställningen är ämnad att spegla.
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- Argento, Daniela, et al.
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Citizen participation in climate smart urban development : Part 1
- 2022
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report presents the first results of our engagement in the research project Climate-Smart Näsby. Our involvement from January to December 2021 was two-fold: first, it entailed identifying potential stakeholders in the urban sustainable development of Näsby, the northern part of the city of Kristianstad (Sweden); second, it entailed outlining citizen engagement possibilities for the project. The report highlights our reflections and lessons learned through literature review, document analysis, photo walks, interviews and workshops. After presenting the challenges cities face in their attempts to become more sustainable, the report emphasizes the importance of increased stakeholder engagement in sustainable city development projects. The report also illustrates some techniques for identifying and analyzing stakeholders and typical tools used to engage them. It discusses how the choice of method when studying citizens, and their engagement, can be a power factor leading to distanced view of citizens. It also highlights how understanding citizen engagement can be blurred due to different interpretations of what democracy means. The report presents a tentative stakeholder map for the project in the form of a power-interest grid. Reflections on photo walks/interviews with citizens are presented in concise and diverse forms that invite to interpretation, understanding and experience of being there.
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- Argento, Daniela, et al.
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Citizen participation in climate smart urban development : Part 2
- 2023
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report presents the fnal results of our engagement in the research project Climate-Smart Näsby. Our involvement from January to December 2022 was aimed to explore how the Municipality of Kristianstad (Sweden) engages with citizens in urban planning related initiatives and identify different forms of participation possibilities. The results of such exploration led to the recognition of both the value and the diffculties of establishing fruitful forms of dialogue. One diffculty is engaging citizens at the early stages of an urban (re)building process, especially when sustainability concerns are at stake. In addition, it is diffcult to ensure that citizens remain anchored to the whole process, which usually takes a long time to be completed. The risk is that participation and dialogue remain fragmented over time, with different citizens being active in different stages of an urban planning process. This report presents a tentative model that facilitates the creation of platforms for site specifc active citizen dialogue (In Swedish: platsbunden aktiv opinions-bildning) to alleviate identifed diffculties. A selection of vignettes and photos, resulting from our feldwork and displayed in various exhibitions, is included in the report to give the reader a sense of the studied site (Näsby, Kristianstad) and the citizens living there.
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- Argento, Daniela, et al.
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Facing Climate Change Challenges through Sustainable City Co-creation
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- To alleviate problems generated by climate change, cities cannot act alone but need to collaborate with multiple stakeholders including industry, non-profit sector, academia and, not the least, citizens whose behavior can make an impact on the territory. The aim of this paper is to enlighten how the city can engage stakeholders – especially citizens – in decision making processes of sustainable urban development. While organizations can have financial or other interests to engage with sustainable urban development which entails (re)building processes able to affect the mobility and livability of cities, citizens might not see an immediate need to participate in the making and re-making of the city, neglecting their potential contribution to intergenerational equity. While rebuilding cities, it becomes paramount to think of how it can become an attractive place where people want to live, work and visit. City managers and decision makers seek ways to enable citizens’ attachment to the sustainable development plans at stake. Pursuing sustainable development requires the management of financial constraints as well as considerations of environmental and social issues. By adopting a case study approach with empirical focus on the Näsby district of Kristianstad City (Scania Region, South of Sweden), we investigate how a mid-sized city experiments with citizen engagement initiatives in the spirit of co-creation. The results show that simultaneously pursuing attractiveness and attachment, what we call attra-chment, requires both regulated and spontaneous initiatives to foster continued co-creation
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- Faraon, Montathar, et al.
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Artificial intelligence practices in higher education using Bloom's digital taxonomy
- 2024
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained attention as one of the emerging fields in educational technology. The growing body of AI research has focused primarily on technological perspectives and less focus has been given to facilitate the development of AI-driven practices in higher education. In this article, we explore and provide insights together with practical examples into how AI through flexible adaptation could be integrated as practices in higher education using Bloom’s digital taxonomy as an educational model. The resulting operationalization is presented in the form of six practices that provide a basis for discussing how AI-powered innovations can be used in higher education.
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- Faraon, Montathar, et al.
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Design av AI-drivna praktiker för högre utbildning
- 2024
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Ingår i: Högskolepedagogisk debatt. - : Kristianstad University Press. - 2000-9216. ; 2024:1, s. 11-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Artikeln diskuterar hur man skulle kunna utforma en design för AI-praktiker i högre utbildning. En utgångspunkt är att lärare vid högskolorna har haft tillgång till hjälpmedel för att identifiera textöverlappning men idag inte har motsvarande tillgång till tjänster som identifierar AI-genererade texter. Författarna ger exempel på sådana tjänster som finns eller är under utveckling och antar att de snart kommer att vara lika accepterade och använda som textjämförelsetjänster. Texten ställer bland annat frågan om användningen av AI kan leda till att studenternas fokus förskjuts från lärande till teknikanvändning och diskuterar även vem som bör ansvara för utformningen av högre utbildning. Är det de stora företagen som utvecklar AI-tjänster eller vi som arbetar inom högre undervisning? I slutet av artikeln diskuterar författarna möjligheten att utveckla Blooms taxonomi till en digital taxonomi. Syftet är att tydliggöra hur olika verktyg kan användas på olika nivåer, vilket kan vara ett sätt att skapa och utformaAI-drivna metoder och strategier.
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- Faraon, Montathar, et al.
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Learning by coding : A sociocultural approach to teaching web development in higher education
- 2020
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Ingår i: Education and Information Technologies. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1360-2357 .- 1573-7608. ; 25:3, s. 1759-1783
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As information technology continues to evolve rapidly in society, coding skills become increasingly essential to develop. The purpose of this article is to examine differences between the learner-centered and sociocultural approaches when teaching and learning coding in higher education. A quasi-experiment was applied over six academic semesters evaluating the mentioned approaches in terms of students' explicit attitudes, grades, and course evaluations. The findings indicated that the sociocultural approach may be a viable alternative to the learner-centered approach. More specifically, students indicated a preference for the sociocultural approach over the learner-centered approach, a greater number of students who passed the courses were educated via the sociocultural approach, and overall satisfaction was significantly higher for this approach as well. While the sociocultural approach has demonstrated to be advantageous, its integration in courses must concurrently be carefully balanced against constraints that teachers continuously experience in higher education, such as time and resources, which presents a challenge to the design of courses and to academia at large.
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- Faraon, Montathar, et al.
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Sociocultural pedagogy and digital transformation of higher education beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article draws attention to the need for a structured sociocultural pedagogical model supported by a novel digital education platform to meet the needs of Millennials and Generation Z in higher-education. Societal advances and the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated the digital transformation of higher education and shown a need to go beyond existing teacher- and learner-centered approaches to supplement face-to-face instruction. Developing a structured sociocultural pedagogical model supported by a novel digital education platform has the potential to strengthen the cooperation and mobility of educators and learners in higher education.
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