Waterproofing Data Project: Flood Memory Interviews, Transcript Data, 2018-2021

The Waterproofing Data project explored how to build communities’ resilience to flooding, by engaging them in the process of generating the data used to predict when floods will occur. The project team developed a functional citizen-science mobile app prototype and a model school curriculum, which has been successfully co-produced and trialled with more than 300 students from over 20 schools and civil protection agencies of five Brazilian states (Acre, Mato Grosso, Pernambuco, Santa Catarina and Sao Paulo). The app and curriculum enabled the communities involved to democratise flood data, raise awareness of flood risks, and co-design new initiatives to reduce disaster risks to communities.

The project invited participants to share their memories about past flooding events, the impacts they caused in their communities and their overall perception of risks. Participants were already engaged through participatory action research workshops held across the project. The researchers audio-recorded the interviews and then generated the transcripts; participant names were pseudonymised for the deposit, and the records were safely deleted. The only names that appear on the transcripts are those of the researcher who conducted the interview. This collection aims to provide future researchers with a sense of the perceptions shared across our project and potential future analysis.
All documents are written in Portuguese.