Communicating Urban Perception: Digital Tools to Inform Urban Regeneration Initiatives

Despite much research on mapping urban perception, such data is rarely used to inform urban regeneration initiatives. Moreover, literature on the subject is mostly focused on data gathering and analysis, with few studies on how to communicate this data to relevant stakeholders. By developing tools to understand people's perception of the urban environment, Design can play a major role in promoting cities' shaping and transformation, thereby linking public authorities and urban planners with citizens. Research objective: the poster presents an ongoing research work in Communication Design. As part of a multidisciplinary funded project on urban regeneration, this work aims at developing an interactive, digital tool directed to multiple stakeholders (from real estate developers to public authorities) for visualizing, exploring and analyzing multivariate urban perception data (e.g. visual, emotional, cognitive & physiological) to inform urban regeneration initiatives.