Climate Companions: Research Data Package

Climate Companions’ was a two-year, practice-based, Participatory Action Research (PAR) in Poplar, East London. The research explored the potential of design-driven civic pedagogies in nurturing agency toward more resilient urban futures. It asked the questions: Which design tools, learning methods and spaces enable transformative civic learning?Civic Pedagogies seek to realise civic action through projects of emancipatory learning occurring at the edges and outside our academic institutions. This co-inquiry aimed to extend theories and practices in this field by utilising co-design to collaboratively shape two civic pedagogies (2022-2023). These were nested within the R-Urban Poplar eco-civic hub, an urban common and part of a network of ecological hubs supporting circularity and civic resilience in cities.The data uploaded here relate to post-evaluation semi-structured interviews conducted with project participants between March 2023 and August 2024. These transcriptions formed the basis of the data analysis alongside auto-ethnographic reflections for this PhD Thesis.