# 2.4 (D13) Deployment Datasets

This folder contains data generated during the second year of PhD research on Smart Cities within the OpenDoTT project (Open Design of Trusted Things). OpenDoTT (https://opendott.org) is a PhD programme from Northumbria University and the Mozilla Foundation funded by the European Union / Horizon 2020 / Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme.

 - Researcher: Felipe Schmidt Fonseca ("ESR 4")
 - Research Topic: Smart Cities
 - Primary Supervisor:
   - Dr Nick Taylor (until October 2021)
   - Dr Nick Spencer (since November 2021)
 - Secondary Supervisor: Professor Mel Woods
 - Industry Supervisors:
   - Solana Larsen
   - Brandi Geurkink


This PhD research focuses on waste prevention through collective practices of reuse, in the forms of repair, upcycling and re-circulation. It investigates the confluence of initiatives and policies in themes such as zero waste, social innovation, circular economy and the doughnut economy.

The dataset on this folder comprises of data collected through studies and activities, in the shape of interview transcriptions (in formats PDF and ODF), contents of emails sent to participants, as well as particular images of activities, notes and analyses.

The dataset has the following subfolders:

 - "reuse.city": outputs and processual documentation of the online co-design lab conducted with a group of participants involved with initiatives of repair, upcycling and re-circulation of goods and materials.
 - "open_research_log": research journal kept as meta-documentation about this year's activities.
 - "generous_city": ongoing collection of images to be used in a future ethnographic account on the reuse of materials in Berlin.
 - "link-collection": current version of an ongoing collection of bookmarks related to the research themes.

Note: all but one of the participants who signed up to join the "tech for reuse" research study agreed in the consent form to have their identities potentially identifiable, and contributions attributed to them in the audio transcriptions. For this reasons, the occasional mention to those participants' names were not anonymised from the transcription files. The remaining participant had their name removed from transcriptions.

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The researcher is available for contact by email: f.fonseca@northumbria.ac.uk

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 813508.