DIGITAL ARTEFACTS SUPPORTING THE APPROPRIATION OF PUBLIC SPACES AND PATHS IN HELSINKI

Urban movements in the Nordic countries increasingly rely on a variety of freely available mundane digital technologies to self-organize around issues of common interest (Saad-Sulonen & Horelli 2017). The aim of the poster is to present the results of an explorative case study on the use of digital artefacts by a self-organizing urban movement, the National Urban Park to Helsinki (NUPH). The digital artefact ecology, expanded through collaborations with city authorities, can be considered as playing a key role in, first, getting stakeholders involved, and then, opening the way for the potential appropriation of significant spaces of mobility, including streets, trails, and waterways.