NaviiCompass
Jessica Andrich, Diana Beirl, Tassilo Bouwman, Anouk Zarah Harde, Tim Serkes · 2018
The benefit of urban community farms to crowded cities, such as London cannot be overstated. The Spitalfields City Farm community offers a peaceful escape from busy city life and provides access to learning opportunities. To maintain its daily activities the farm depends on funding, yet due to insufficient feedback data funding opportunities are often missed. We present NaviiCompass, an interactive, handheld device (Figure 1). It enables the Spitalfields Farm community to collect feedback in a seamless, playful manner, while providing educational content to the community. The design was inspired by observations and semi-structured interviews with members of the Spitalfields farm community, revealing their struggle to acquire feedback from visitors. Portable smart compasses direct visitors to stations around the farm where they are asked to give feedback. NaviiCompass empowers the community by enabling them to access the funding they need to support the farm's activities.