ScotScape: Negotiating landscape transition in Scotland

Dealing with complex problems through building common understanding.

A toolkit that brings stakeholders together to experiment with land management strategies, explore future landscapes, quantify the impacts of land interventions, and exchange ideas, to co-create shared visions and plans for a sustainable and inclusive landscape.

The Project

We are developing a set of tools that support land managers, stakeholders, and anyone involved in land use change with facilitating discussions, exploring ideas, and putting together land management plans.

Our toolkit includes:

A strategy game based on scientific models, which allows players to test out the impacts of different land uses
A visualisation tool that allows users to see and walk through their landscape given different interventions
A natural capital tool that allows users to estimate the impact of interventions on a range of natural capital parameters
A discourse analysis tool that analyses and summarises discussions, bringing out key themes and ideas in group conversations

The toolkit allows different perspectives and experiences to meet on equal terms, using tools that make land management discussions accessible to all.

An inclusive approach

Scientific and system-level data can often be inaccessible, and experiential knowledge familiar only to those in specific demographics. Our toolkit integrates scientific data and the knowledge of local and regional stakeholders to give people a shared understanding of the factors influencing and affected by land management decisions.

Our tools are immersive and engaging, to ensure that people enjoy using them and finding new perspectives on their landscapes.

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