Alexander Wilson
Affiliated Faculty
I am a Lecturer in the School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape. I have degrees in both town planning and computing, and recently finished my PhD (within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics) that explored how technology can create the means for an open dialogue around place, and how through these technologies, more meaningful discussions can happen about the future of cities.
My research sits at the intersection of digital technology, design, human–computer interaction and town planning, with a focus on alternative and enhanced tools and methods for participation in planning. These tools and methods include pervasive and wearable computing systems, alongside audio, visual and social media in novel interactive systems. Through this I explore how technologies can be designed, developed and evaluated within real world settings, with the aim of understanding the implications of these for citizen engagement and planning practice.
Curating Peer Support with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence
Metro Futures: Co-designing the future of Tyne and Wear Metro
Let's Talk Parks: creating collaborative spaces to envision and transform public parks services
H2020 gE.CO Living Lab: Tools for generating commons
Jigsaudio: Drawing and talking about urban change
Change Explorer: engaging people on planning decisions
2022
Digital Participatory Planning: Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design
2022 – RTPI Library Series
A ‘Planning Revolution’ or an ‘Attack on Planning’ in England: Democratisation, Digitisation and Digitalisation
2022 – International Planning Studies
Co-Designing Urban Planning Engagement and Innovation: Using LEGO® to Facilitate Collaboration, Participation and Ideas
2022 – Urban Planning
Medievals and Moderns in Conversation: Co-Designing Creative Futures for Under-Used Historic Churches in Rural Communities
2022 – Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
2021
Fragments of the Past: Curating Peer Support with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence
2021 – Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21)
Bunkering down? The geography of elite residential basement development in London
2021 – Urban Geography
COVID-19 and the Rise of Digital Planning: Fast and Slow Adoption of a Digital Planning System
2021 – Town Planning Review
2020
Metro Futures: Experience-Centred Co-Design at Scale
2020 – CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
“We come together as one…and hope for solidarity to live on”: On Designing Technologies for Activism and the Commemoration of Lost Lives
2020 – Designing Interactive Systems - DIS '20
Reflections on Deploying Community-Driven Visualisations for Public Engagement in Urban Planning
2020 – Urban Planning
Common Language of Sustainability for Built Environment Professionals—The Quintuple Helix Model for Higher Education
2020 – Energies
2019
Urban planning, public participation and digital technology: App development as a method of generating citizen involvement in local planning processes
2019 – Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Let’s draw and talk about urban change: Deploying digital technology to encourage citizen participation in urban planning
2019 – Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Infrastructuring public service transformation: Creating collaborative spaces between communities and institutions through HCI research
2019 – ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction