Climate Companions: Research Data Package

<p dir="ltr">Climate Companions’ was a two-year, practice-based, Participatory Action Research (PAR) in Poplar, East London. The research explored the potential of design-driven civic pedagogies in nurturing agency toward more resilient urban futures. It asked the questions: Which design tools, learning methods and spaces enable transformative civic learning?</p><p dir="ltr">Civic Pedagogies seek to realise civic action through projects of emancipatory learning occurring at the edges and outside our academic institutions. This co-inquiry aimed to extend theories and practices in this field by utilising co-design to collaboratively shape two civic pedagogies (2022-2023). These were nested within the R-Urban Poplar eco-civic hub, an urban common and part of a network of ecological hubs supporting circularity and civic resilience in cities.</p><p dir="ltr">The data uploaded here relate to post-evaluation semi-structured interviews conducted with project participants between March 2023 and August 2024. These transcriptions formed the basis of the data analysis alongside auto-ethnographic reflections for this PhD Thesis. </p>