Summer on a GeoBike: "Mapping for Recreation" Project Activities, Methods and Tools.

This report presents a citizen science project with refugee children and youth from Ukraine residing in refugee facilities in the Twente region of The Netherlands. The project engaged participants in the active exploration and mapping of public places for sports and recreation. The key objective of this report is to showcase the multifaceted nature of place-based citizen science, which — apart from collecting valuable data on youth’s perception and use of urban spaces — allows participants to gain new knowledge and skills, to restore key basic needs such as autonomy and sociality, to explore and gain first-hand, embodied knowledge of their new home towns, and to deepen and capture this knowledge in an online map, as well as through art and storytelling. The report outlines key project activities including their objective, form, and implementation, followed
by the project team’s initial observations and recommendations. Methodologically, it draws on informal discussions with participants, an ex-post survey of participants’ experiences, as well as project leaders’ observations.