This project looked at how communities can feel greater ownership of place and culture through using digital technologies, and how this could be supported by the Digital Inclusion Practices and Policies of Leeds City Council.
Working collaboratively with Space2 to develop participatory activities, Include! investigated what a community-centred, participatory, and creative version of digital inclusion would look like. With the Research England funding, the researchers explored this through a series of workshops with community participants, Space2 facilitators, and digital artists.
This project was funded through the 2022–2023 Research England Participatory Research Fund and responded to Leeds City Council’s 2022 Area of Research Interest (ARI) ‘Digital’, specifically ‘Critical perspectives on the digital agenda’ and 'Alternative structures’. Plus, the ‘Culture’ ARI, specifically the sub-theme ‘People, place and interculturalism’.