CENTRINNO: Urban Ecosystem Cartography
A shared urban-ecosystem mapping methodology and cartographic infrastructure for nine European pilot cities, developed within Horizon 2020 CENTRINNO, New CENTRalities in INdustrial areas as engines for inNOvation and urban transformation.
- Period
- 2021–2022
- Status
- Completed research
- Role
- Co-author · Horizon 2020 grant 869595
- Scale
- Nine European pilot cities
- I1Geospatial context
- I2Community mapping
- I3Material-flow mapping
- O1Nine pilot cartographies
- O2Local resource inventories
Co-author · Horizon 2020 grant 869595
- Named as one of six authors of CENTRINNO deliverable D2.2, Cartography Alpha Version.
- A common method joining geospatial context mapping, community mapping and material-flow mapping.
- Nine pilot cartography pages paired with internal KUMU workspaces for collaborative data collection, analysis and visualisation.
- A public methodology and resource library intended to make the cartographic process repeatable beyond the original pilots.
In this project, urban ecosystem refers to the local resources, infrastructures, communities and material relationships involved in circular regeneration. It is not a biodiversity survey or a species-modelling claim.
Nine pilot teams needed a repeatable way to map local resources, infrastructure, socio-cultural assets, stakeholders and material flows without flattening very different neighbourhoods into one template.
My contribution
At Metabolic, I co-authored D2.2, CENTRINNO Cartography Alpha Version, as one of six named authors. I helped shape its two-part infrastructure: an external website for curated mapping outcomes and KUMU workspaces through which pilots could collect, analyse and visualise bottom-up information. The method brought geospatial context, community and material-flow mapping into one process across nine pilot cities.
Decisions and constraints
Decisions I made
- Separate the Cartography into a public website for curated outcomes and internal KUMU workspaces for collaborative collection and analysis, so pilots could work with sensitive bottom-up data before choosing what to publish.
- Combine geospatial context, community and material-flow mapping instead of treating any one layer as the urban ecosystem, keeping local resources, infrastructure, networks and socio-cultural assets in the same frame.
- Use a shared taxonomy and repeatable methodology while leaving each pilot free to adapt its cartographic journey to local context.
Operating constraint
An alpha-stage infrastructure had to serve nine heterogeneous pilot cities, support collaborative bottom-up data, respect consent and privacy, and remain legible to an external public without presenting every local context as interchangeable.
Claim boundary: In this project, urban ecosystem refers to the local resources, infrastructures, communities and material relationships involved in circular regeneration. It is not a biodiversity survey or a species-modelling claim.
What can be checked.
- Named as one of six authors of CENTRINNO deliverable D2.2, Cartography Alpha Version.
- A common method joining geospatial context mapping, community mapping and material-flow mapping.
- Nine pilot cartography pages paired with internal KUMU workspaces for collaborative data collection, analysis and visualisation.
- A public methodology and resource library intended to make the cartographic process repeatable beyond the original pilots.
Documents, code and live work.
The case study states the claim. These sources let you inspect the underlying artefact in its original context.