Abstract
This chapter highlights how a human focused approach to fostering digital participation engaged local communities and schools with issues of sustainability and climate change. We describe a series of four socially engaged, interactive artistic interventions that took place across forests, urban and rural environments in the United Kingdom and Brazil between 2009 and 2015. These projects used sensing and online technologies to exchange information between communities in the United Kingdom and Brazil to engage with their local environments, presenting a framework that focused on the human element of human–computer interaction specifically supporting sensory and embodied experiences of scientific data. These approaches encourage digital inclusion and interdisciplinary thinking about local and global issues of deforestation and climate change. The authors argue that an abundance of opportunities, networks and local knowledge can be mediated through both digital and analogue technologies, in order to provide truly ‘lived’ experiences of environmental and digital participation.
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