Knowledge Exchange: Improved community engagement through spatial and visualisation methods (ICE-SAV)

与不同社区（特定街区的居民以及具有不同专长或知识的群体-利益群体）接触的新方法，采用或联合收割机空间（基于地图并与真实的地点相联系）和可视化（三维视图或信息的抽象表示）工具，具有改善群体之间和群体内部互动的巨大潜力。这种改进的参与提供了机会，以提高对社区之间和社区内部不同观点的理解，并产生新的知识或新的解决方案，以解决复杂的问题。通过让人们以不同的方式看待事物来解决（通常是困难的）问题。“通过空间和可视化方法改善社区参与”项目看到了学者，慈善机构，地方政府官员和社区团体聚集在一起参加三个研讨会，分享和交流他们的经验，这些讨论有助于研讨会与会者在所使用的方法之间建立以前未被认识到的联系在他们的研究和社区参与工作。研讨会还查明了我们在理解方面的差距，需要进一步研究，并有机会在新的背景下与不同的社区应用和结合联合收割机方法，以改善利益攸关方参与真实的世界决策。

New approaches to engage with different communities (residents of particular neighbourhoods but also groups with different expertise or knowledge - communities of interest) that incorporate or combine spatial (mapped based and linked to real places) and visualisation (three-dimensional views or abstract representations of information) tools hold considerable potential to improve interaction between and within groups. This improved engagement provides opportunities to improve the understanding of different viewpoints between and within communities but also to generate new knowledge or novel solutions to complex (often difficult) problems by allowing people to see things in a different way.The 'Improving Community Engagement through Spatial and Visualisation methods' project saw groups of academics, charities, local government officers and community groups come together for three seminars to share and exchange their experiences of what approaches work where, when and for whom based on previously funded projects.These discussions helped the seminar participants to make previously unrecognised linkages between methods used in their research and community engagement work. The seminars also identified gaps in our understanding that require further research together with opportunities to apply and combine methods in new contexts, with different communities, to improve the engagement of stakeholders in real world decision making.