Contents
Undertaking
Certificate
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Overview of the thesis
Table of contents
List of figures
List of tables
1) Introduction- About the research
1.1) Background/Contextualizing the DRP
1.1.1) What is Citizen Science?
1.1.2) What is an ashwath katte
1.1.3) What is the relevance of Citizen Science in Urban Design?
1.2) Aim and Objective
1.3) Research Question
1.4) Scope and Limitations
2) Positioning the research -Relevance of Technologically mediated engagement
in Urban Design
3) Method & Research setting: To build the portal & seek responses
3.1) Introduction to the existing data about the ashwath katte
3.2) About the online portal-Decoding Everyday
3.3) Outreach and citizen engagement through social media
3.3.1) Pilot Outreach through convenience sampling
3.3.2) Social Media campaign on Instagram, Facebook & LinkedIn
3.4) Creating content for the portal
3.4.1)Creating graphics for the website
3.4.2)Creating a map with all the locations of the ashwath katte
3.4.3)Generating content for the discussion forum & reflection board
4) Findings
4.1) Overview of the incoming traffic on the website
4.1.1) Devices used by the users to access the site
4.1.2) Average time spent on the website that the time spent
4.1.3) Which city has major people from which source
4.2) Effects of social media on the citizen engagement
4.2.1) Timeline of social media and the resultant influx of users on the xvii
website.
4.2.2) Responses on the social media platforms
4.3) Responses received on the Google Forms
4.4) Response to the Reflection board and Discussion Forum
5) Analysis
5.1) Factors affecting the response from citizens of various cities
5.2) Factors affecting the number of responses
5.2.1)Structure of the website
5.2.2) Interfaces of the social media platforms
5.2.3) Nature of the audience
5.2.4) Interface of the portal on devices-Mobile phones and desktops/ laptops
6) Discussion & Conclusion
Bibliography & Appendix
Appendix