Uploaded on 2017-09-29 by Ana Luisa Maffini Machado

Alternative 2: Habitats of a certain neighborhood don’t feel safe when they walk in their neighborhood in the evening and during the night. You are working for the local government and want to solve this problem through improvement of the public spaces. How would you start-up a Citizen Design Science project? I would engage with the community to start "mapping" the problems, with the use of technology where they would be able to point out the things and the locations and situations that make they feel unsafe. From that point on, I would try to start some policy of "participatory protection" where the local community would help to make the streets saffer, by paying attention to what is happening, by improving the sensing od community in them trough activities or actions that could make the habitants to know eachother. Also I believe it is important to improve tha life in the streets, by incentivating uses and activities that could bring people to the streets where they would also work as eyes for the safety. The image shows a public space in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where people can skate and it is always very busy, which increases the livability of the surroundings.