We constantly build, use, maintain, and adapt physical and digital tools and infrastructures — both inside and outside formal institutions, and far beyond classical environmental citizen science.

This session invites participants involved in community projects to share concrete user stories about how they actually work:

what they try to do,
what doesn’t work,
what they avoid using,
what they need,
and why.

Rather than presenting solutions or pitching an infrastructure, the session focuses on:

Session Focus

Lived practices and workflows
Shared experiences and bottlenecks in maintaining infrastructure
Research activities within communities, including success stories
Trust issues and refusals related to infrastructure services
Boundaries around data, governance, and centralisation, with concrete project examples

Method

Participants will fill in short user stories based on real situations.
These stories will be anonymised and analysed to identify patterns that can inform the early design of a future research infrastructure (RIECS) — before assumptions harden into technical or governance choices.

About the Project

RIECS-Concept Project (CORDIS)
🔗 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101188210/de

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