A5074221970- Sharing Economy and Platforms
- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Rural development and sustainability
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Cruise Tourism Development and Management
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Outdoor and Experiential Education
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Travel Writing and Literature
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Web and Library Services
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Digital Humanities and Scholarship
- Transportation and Mobility Innovations
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Business Strategy and Innovation
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Service and Product Innovation
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Open Source Software Innovations
University of Edinburgh
2010-2025
Edinburgh College
2012-2025
Technische Universität Berlin
2022
Heriot-Watt University
2002-2003
Durham University
2001
The relationship of space and time has become a vexed issue in accounts the postmodern metropolis. Rich enlivening use spatial categories to describe interrelationships elements city—moving from historicism geography, gloss Jameson's development cognitive mapping. Postmodern geographies utilising ideas mapping show marked similarities with describing classical medieval arts memory Romantic writings Flaubert on Athens. However, spatialised city often seem replicate problematic divisions that...
The purpose of this paper is to present, analyse and critique a research method, 'place mapping', used document understand teenagers' experience, use perception public spaces. Researchers in two case study sites, Edinburgh, Scotland, Sacramento, CA, employed conventional street maps as basis for eliciting recording young people's spatial experiences. This method offers an effective mechanism generating structuring discussion – through dialogue by the participants about their dynamic shared...
While scalability and growth are key concerns for mainstream, venture-backed digital platforms, local location-oriented collaborative economies diverse in their approaches to evolving achieving social change. Their aims tactics differ when it comes broadening activities across contexts, spreading concept, or seeking make a bigger impact by promoting co-operation. This paper draws on three pairs of European, community-centred initiatives which reveal alternative views scale, growth, impact....
The advent of metaverses provide exciting opportunities for augmented reality research. We have created a number interactions between the metaverse Second Life and real world. Camera phone image matching creates portals triggers to mimic locations. Image processing, tracking, projection 3D video sprites create varied possibilities people avatars presence in each others worlds.
Abstract The gradual relocation of industry and other related activities out the core areas cities often results in voids urban structure—spaces that are 'left over'. These places—in transition between their past future functions—are landscapes with no formal spatial arrangement or current use. Their state limbo allows for a variety informal spontaneous uses may enrich structure, albeit temporarily, diversity. However, they usually shown as blank on city planning maps status awaiting some...
The current health crisis, triggered by the spread of COVID-19, has mobilized activist groups and individuals within social movements worldwide to respond with actions solidarity mutual aid. In Greece, during lockdown between March May 2020, several aid initiatives emerged in Athens offer support those who needed it. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this paper traces emergence Kropotkin-19, a initiative central neighborhood Exarcheia, that provided food, essential goods, legal psychological...
The paper focuses on two emerging networks of sharing economy in Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki: Trapeza Chronou, a time bank, and 'KOI.NO', community-currency network, both supported by open platform information communications technology (ICTs). These are approached as tactics that have the potential to generate socioeconomic change through bottom-up participation ICTs-supported citizen engagement. Both initiatives utilise source ICTs facilitate urban economic networking means...