Spatial Practices and Social Distancing in a Liverpool Secondary School, 2021-2023

Ethnographic and eco-sensory data from an ESRC-funded project conducted in a secondary school in Liverpool between March 2021 and February 2023. The 4.7 GB collection includes 360 photographs, LiDAR scans, interviews, flow animations, AR videos, and participatory workshop outputs from 14 Year 12 students. It was created by Laura Trafi-Prats and contains speculative maps, 3D prototypes, and related research artifacts.

Use Cases

• Developing eco-sensory and affective research methods based on the described atmospheric maps and SUPERPOWER app data.
• Analyzing spatial practices in educational settings using the provided 360 photographs, LiDAR scans, and flow animations.
• Creating speculative design prototypes with youth based on the conceptual prototypes and drawn maps from student workshops.
• Mapping temporal and social patterns in school environments using the included space-time journey maps and living landscape maps.

Strengths

• Includes diverse multimodal data types such as 360 photographs, LiDAR scans, AR videos, and flow animations.
• Contains participatory data from 14 Year 12 students, including conceptual prototypes and drawn maps.
• Project documentation includes descriptions of methods and protocols for data collection.
• Data is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad reuse with attribution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative tasks.
• Data is focused on a single secondary school in Liverpool, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

ESRC-funded project by Laura Trafi-Prats, hosted on figshare.

Collection Method

Collected using sensory and digital ethnographic methods, including interviews, participatory workshops, and digital documentation.

Time Range

March 2021 - February 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 17:28:29; freshness should be verified.

Geography

A secondary school in Liverpool, UK.