Oleksandra NenkoUniversity of the Arts Helsinki
Oleksandra Nenko
PhD
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Publications (36)
This book exposes the potential to advance a cultural approach to sustainable urban development. It explores urban "spaces of possibilities" and links them to the seized or missed opportunities for innovative forms of transversal partnerships throughout the city and of culturally sensitive urban policies.
The call for sustainability brings with it...
Assessing the potential of the cultural ecosystem services of green areas (values, images and behaviors that green areas offer to their visitors) is one of the tasks of the systemic development of natural ecosystems in the city. The article shows how data from geolocated social media, namely Instagram supplemented with Google Places and Strava, is...
Citizens’ participation in evaluating the quality of the urban environment has recently gained momentum in urban planning practice. One of the promising approaches to address this task is the participatory mapping approach and one of the most established tools - public participation geoinformation systems (PPGIS). Based on the data coming from the...
This paper proposes a mixed-method sociosemantic network analysis of meaning structures in practice. While social and institutional fields impose meaning structures , to achieve practical goals, field participants gather in groups and locally produce idiocultures of their own. Such idiocultures are difficult to capture structurally; hence, the impa...
In this paper we study subjective perception of the city space represented through geography of emotions. In particular, we analyze the continuity of user experience in the city, considering user emotions as connected states. To do this, we develop a concept of an “emotional street network” and analyze the integrity of human emotional experience th...
The article considers an analysis of the emotional perception of the urban environment as one of the tasks in building a “smart city” focused on citizens. The article discusses the theoretical foundations for analyzing the emotions of citizens as an indicator of the quality of the urban environment. Digital participatory mapping of emotions is desc...
Geosemantic networks (GSNs) represent geographical, social, and anthropological aspects of compact communities, such as urban neighborhoods. They have become a crucial tool in defining spatial borders of culturally uniform communities and studying their evolution.
A GSN is a weighted graph comprised of hashtag nodes. Two nodes are connected with an...
Cities are complex systems and understanding their structure is critical for multiple applications. However, traditional urban planning is challenged by the dynamics of the urban system. Fortunately, in recent years, multiple datasets reflecting human activity in nearly real-time have become available. This paper leverages geo-tagged VKontakte and...
The paper deals with evaluation of the quality of public service infrastructure in the city of Kronstadt, the historical part of Saint-Petersburg agglomeration. Public services are considered as FMCG, cultural and recreational venues people use in everyday life. We consider the quality of public services through a set of objective (availability, ac...
This paper explores meaning structures in the social practice of small groups. While social and institutional fields impose meaning structures, they are put to practice (emerge) in the context of specific activities that take place within a field. Collaborating in small groups, field participants form such practical contexts. It enables playing on...
In this paper we present a study on areas of habitation in St.Petersburg, Russia, which are actively used and perceived by city dwellers as coherent units. The motivation behind the study is to define generic urban areas formed by actual user experience and different from administrative division to improve urban management of the city territory. We...
In this paper we present a study on areas of habitation in St. Petersburg, Russia, which are actively used and perceived by city dwellers as coherent units. The motivation behind the study is to define generic urban areas formed by actual user experience and different from administrative division to improve urban management of the city territory. W...
The paper presents the study on identification and systematic description of typical behavioral patterns of drug usage. The dataset is based on the qualitative interviews with 70 drug users and the survey within 80 experts of federal drug control service in St.Petersburg obtained in the course of 2015. A behavioural pattern is considered as a seque...
The general concept and implementation of a practice-oriented social network data storage and analysis system are discussed in this paper. The need for such a concept comes from the fact that at the moment little attention is paid to the internal structure of such systems. The proposed system organizes the process of collecting data, filling the da...
Analysis of emotions has received recognition in urban studies as a mean to understand subjective quality of life. Availability of spontaneous user-generated online urban data generated by users in location based social networks broadens possibilities for such analysis as described in a number of studies. However the LBSN data is not shared deliber...
Emotional perception of the city space has a great share in subjective well-being and is one of the core subjective indicators of the quality of urban environment. Studies of emotional response towards the city space have recently gained popularity within digital humanities. In the paper we present a new system which allows collecting data on urban...
This paper explores meaning structures in the social practice of small groups. While social and institutional fields impose meaning structures, they are put to practice (emerge) in the context of specific activities that take place within a field. Collaborating in small groups, field participants form such practical contexts. It enables playing on...
This paper presents an approach to study spatial segregation through clusterization of food services in St. Petersburg, Russia, based on analysis of geospatial and user-generated data from open sources. We consider a food service as an urban place with social and symbolic features and we track how popularity (number of reviews) and rating of food v...
Emotional perception of the city space has a great share in subjective well-being and is one of the core subjective indicators of the quality of urban environment. Studies of emotional response towards the city space have recently gained popularity within digital humanities. In the paper we present a new system which allows collecting data on urban...
The population mobility, related to long-term and short-term migrations, happens on an increasing pace, affecting various fields of activity in a single country and the world community as a whole. Large amounts of diverse migration-related data are recorded by different entities all over the world, making it important to develop and implement a sys...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop an approach to urban environment management through analysis of “urban emptiness” based on user-generated big data.
Design/methodology/approach
Research design is based on creating a theoretical model of urban emptiness as a multi-layer phenomenon in the city space and then developing an applied ap...
Following the ideas of such writers as Florida, Landry and others on the ‘creative city’ and the ‘creative class’, creativity is now widely acknowledged to be a trigger for innovations and urban development. However, these ideas put the main accent on macro-level analysis, i.e. the economic effects of creativity in cities. The micro-level of creati...
This paper presents an argued vision on urban acupuncture as a research-based tool to manage urban territories by taking local actions in specific points. We argue that if based on analysis of social media data, urban acupuncture becomes an informative source for e-government and allows to design targeted urban planning decisions minimizing resourc...
City government is compelled to balance between improving quality of urban life of its citizens and reducing costs for managing urban infrastructures. Our article presents a novel tool that allows authorities to enhance management of public transportation, which is one of the crucial components of quality of urban life, and at the same time, provid...
. The paper proposes a theoretical and methodological framework to study art as an autonomous reality, where knowledge is seen as a set of collectively shared meaning structures dynamically socially created throughout communication. The latter is triggered by artworks as stimuli, intermediaries and products of communication, evoking intellectual an...
Here we present the consideration of the art leisure in its relation to identity by analyzing this connection from developmental science and emotion studies perspective. Organized leisure time such as extracurricular art practices conditions it to be valuable for gaining developmental experiences; in particular, facilitates identity shaping process...
The paper proposes a perspective to theorise the relation between knowledge creation and art works based on a synthesis of systemic, phenomenological and constructivist approaches. Art works are considered as knowledge objects that carry significant appresentations and thus allow correlations between individually embedded meanings building the grou...
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Projects (7)
Our project focuses on the socio-economic complexity of transitioning towards CE. We highlight how within the different institutional contexts of Russia and Finland, there emerge individuals and grass-root movements that go much beyond the societal norm in implementing the "3R"s of CE: reduce, reuse and recycle. While most environmental theories focus on the barriers to pro-environmental behaviour, we call attention to the individuals that go beyond convenience, norms and obligations and create circular lifestyles that have the potential to unite across cultures. We combine narrative storytelling, visual maps and engaging experiments to create positive attention to the circular lifestyles, support the evolution of citizens' role in CE of Finland's Roadmap and destigmatize recycling activities in Russia.
