Decision Environments

As a partner in the REPAiR consortium, Geo-Col teamed up with TU Delft and GGR GbR to co-develop the GDSE, which features an open source prototype web application that supports both the research and the collaborative decision-making process required to guide the steps of a living lab for a study area. Stakeholders use the GDSE to map actors relevant to a food waste solution, and to visualize waste streams connected to this solution. Stakeholders use the GDSE to explore the area’s status quo by visualizing flows per activity group as Sankey diagrams and flow maps of existing related food waste streams. 

See publication (Arciniegas et al., 2019).

Check video GDSE in action.

Assignment commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. Geo-Col collaborated with the SPINlab of the VU University Amsterdam to co-develop and roll out an ArcGIS Online digital spatial decision environment to support and facilitate the collaborative  workshops aimed at:

• Prioritization of maintenance of waterways and roads.
• Co-development of Climate. Resilient Networks.

Online collaborative mapping tool developed to spatially integrate values and preferences of planners into the development of socially acceptable carbon-smart green spaces in the district of Kumpula, Helsinki, Finland. 

Geo-Col was responsible for the technical development, testing, and facilitated implementation of the tool. The tool was been developed as part of the CO-CARBON project’s WP3 ‘Envisioning carbon-smart and just UGI’, led by Prof. Christopher Raymond, University of Helsinki. The tool interface was built within the ArcGIS Online Environment.

As part of the FoodSHIFT2030 project, SUSMETRO's Metropolitan Foodscape Planner (MFP2.0) has been operationalized using ArcGIS and CommunityViz, (and soon in ArcGIS GeoPlanner),  and implemented for the living labs for Copenhagen, Berlin, Wroclaw, and others. MF2.0 features up-to-date European datasets to assess the potential of current land use to provide food resources and meet the demand of city dwellers, and help to empower citizens, innovators, companies, public authorities and other stakeholders of regional food systems to build more regionalized food supply networks.

The tool was designed by SUSMETRO and is based on this philosophy.

Geo-Col joined forces with the PROVEES foundation and RUBIK Sustentabilidad to co-develop a participatory spatial decision environment that supported the collection of geo-referenced feedback for the socialization of the ongoing project called ‘Prototipo TIMEO Aysen’, which aims at identifying the vulnerability to climate change of the electric system in the Aysen Region, in Chilean Patagonia

The tool interface was built within the ArcGIS Online environment  

A storymap documenting the process was also delivered.

Check video of project.

Geo-Col collaborated with the Radboud University Nijmegen to create a spatial decision environment that supported the negotiation on urban developments in two transit corridors in the Netherlands. The environment is used in workshops around an interactive MapTable, with spatial information (from GIS) and financial information (from a game-theoretical model) being visualized in real-time. The prototype of the decision environment was built using Scenario360. and the second version as a QGIS plugin.

Application of the map-based touch table, called MapTable for the development of a sustainable neighborhood in the region of Utrecht, the Netherlands. the system comprises GIS software (ArcGIS and CommunityViz) and an area-based environmental profile called the ‘‘Sustainability Profile of the Location’’.

See book chapter in:  Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Part of the national ME6 project 'Dutch Fen Meadows'. We implemented three types of collaborative workshops for polder planning. With design, analysis and negotiation tools, stakeholders work together on new plans on the Touch table. Spatial multicriteria analysis effectively clarifies trade-offs between objectives. 

See publication: Arciniegas and Janssen, 2012

Part of the Knowseas project. 

We demonstrated a novel method to facilitate implementation of the Ecosystem Approach. Using a real-time interactive touch-table and stakeholder workshops we gathered data and facilitated negotiation of spatial trade-offs at a potential site for tidal renewable energy off the Mull of Kintyre (Scotland). Conflicts between the interests of tidal energy developers and commercial and recreational users of the area were identified, and use preferences and concerns of stakeholders were highlighted. 

Check publication in PlosOne