Identification
Video tool
RAPID APPRAISAL MAPPING
Imagine you are with a group of people and you want to ask them what health and environmental problems they experience in their city.
Maps are useful tools to gather people's opinions, as they provide spatial information and enable informal conversations of various people who stand around the artifact. The Symptoms Mapping Tool is a map you can use in a co-creation workshop to identify the health problems that citizens perceive in their living area.
We share with you some resources that can be useful to carry out this activity.
Read the case study and understand how this tool has been used in a real citizen science project.
CitieS-Health Barcelona Pilot
This is an activity suitable for a co-creation workshop or an event. It consists in asking participants to map environmental problems and health symptoms that they experience in different areas of their city. Participants populate a map of the geographical areas with stickers that represent different problems. The resulting map provides valuable insights on citizens’ concerns, thus showing areas of interest for the intervention.
To investigate perceived symptoms of citizens due to any environmental issue, by districts of the city.