Urban gardening education: User reflections on mobile application designs

What is it about?

Mobile gardening applications offer a wide range of possibilities for shaping the pro-environmental behaviour of city dwellers, but their potential is not yet sufficiently recognised and exploited. The study explores the motivations behind a user’s decision to download urban gardening applications and the functionalities that facilitate and hinder their use. The method employed is qualitative data analysis. The research material included opinions of mobile urban gardening application users available online. The study followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) approach.

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Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash

Why is it important?

Although we have many mobile gardening applications, we have very little information about how peoples use them. The present analysis contributes to the literature by exploring factors that are relevant to the development of urban gardening applications. Moreover, given the results obtained, they are relevant not only for applications’ developers, but also for those involved in the urban education process, such as city authorities, urban educators, pro-environmental associations, grassroots activists, who could use mobile applications as a tool in education to support the green transformation of cities.