ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a discussion of the methods involved in re-designing the iSeeChange platform between 2014 and 2015. It focuses on the design process rather than how the platform is used because it offers a novel perspective from which to view the relationship between researchers, media, citizen science, digital tools, and climate change discourse. The chapter discusses the key challenges in bridging quantitative and qualitative data among stakeholders, scaling global data down to local contexts, and making local knowledge relevant to global climate change discourse with the use of digital tools. It ends with a brief discussion about what social researchers might be able to learn from the best practices within design research. iSeeChange's design interventions also face new challenges in its future in the form of evolving citizen science and media technologies, developments in climate science, and sustainability of partnerships involved in the project in its current state.
