Not Another Day Zero: Design Hackathons for Community-Based Water Quality Monitoring
Srishti Gupta, Chun-Hua Tsai, John M. Carroll

TL;DR
This paper explores how design hackathons can foster community engagement in water quality monitoring, revealing insights into stakeholder networks, practices, and innovative solutions to empower citizens and prevent water crises.
Contribution
It introduces a novel research method, 'design hackathons,' to study community-based water management and conceptualizes water data as community data for enhanced engagement.
Findings
Identified complex stakeholder networks and workflows.
Proposed innovative community-driven water management scenarios.
Highlighted the role of technological infrastructure in citizen engagement.
Abstract
This study looks at water quality monitoring and management as a new form of community engagement. Through a series of a unique research method called `design hackathons', we engaged with a hyperlocal community of citizens who are actively involved in monitoring and management of their local watershed. These design hackathons sought to understand the motivation, practices, collaboration and experiences of these citizens. Qualitative analysis of data revealed the nature of the complex stakeholder network, workflow practices, initiatives to engage with a larger community, current state of technological infrastructure being used, and innovative design scenarios proposed by the hackathon participants. Based on this comprehensive analysis, we conceptualize water quality monitoring and management as community-based monitoring and management, and water data as community data. Such a…
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TopicsBiomedical and Engineering Education
