If a user wants to understand environmental citizenship activity in the city, is the information useful?

We believe that although the existing map has a lot of content, not all of it is particularly useful in terms of understanding environmental citizenship in the city.

Should the information be on the map?

Most of the information currently on the map is relevant, although the mapping of regular waste and recycling bins is not really necessary. Despite the fact ordinary bins play an important role in day-to-day eco-friendly practices, they show very little in terms of active local efforts towards positive environmental citizenship. The map does however pinpoint larger recycling points and special purpose bins e.g. for compost disposal, which are more helpful as they are not so commonplace. Therefore they help make the extra effort easier i.e. the effort people can make (such as responsible compost disposal) in order to contribute to good environmental citizenship.

What information is missing?

Many of the areas are lacking in-depth information and specificity. This is true mainly for areas around the outskirts of central Brighton. The existing map increasingly neglects areas of the city further from the centre; primarily by having less areas pinned overall, but also by having less content and weaker information about the contribution to environmental citizenship that is concerned.

Is the information well presented? How could it be improved?

When looking at the map at the scale for which it was intended, the information is clear and appropriately split into different categories as to what type of contribution to environmental citizenship they make. The option to filter the map between these is useful and allows for easy access to specific information.

We scheduled a meet up outside St Peter's church to discuss how we would go about locating places that show evidence of Environmental Citizenship in our ward (St Peters & North Laine). We decided to split our ward into half to speed up the process and go off in pairs, with more focus on St Peter's. We went into a select few places to ask question about certain things e.g. waste policies. We found that many places in Brighton involved in Environmental Citizenship are in fact food orientated, with food companies focusing on how they dispose of their waste. We plan to visit the field again to investigate North Laine further and go into more places.

After focusing on St. Peters during our first visit to our ward, we decided to pay more attention to North Laines whilst on our second visit. In addition, after noticing that the majority of our places focused solely on food, we thought it would be appropriate to make sure we tried our best to cover the other topics within environmental citizenship, such as energy, green paces and transport. We successfully found examples of transport, with the Lemon Bus, and The Pavilion and Victoria Gardens was a prime example of a green space.

Our next session did not involve going out into our ward to collect primary research, but instead involved us meeting in the library to discuss and collect secondary research. We googled certain business, such as the Co-operative which we knew would have a lot of information to help us with our investigation. After researching, we used the information we had found to update our community 21 map and create a format which would help to make our information succinct and relevant. After the community 21 map had been completed, we then created a PowerPoint Presentation to effectively display our information for our presentation.