ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how increased levels of attention to our common living conditions can foster a common sense of responsibility and renewed strategies for action towards more sustainable futures by reconnecting civic initiatives and approaches of institutionalised research. The Citizen Science for Sustainability Project was set up as a community-based Action Research project in North London, aimed at providing deprived urban communities with a greater say in the future of sustainability research. The Citizen Science for Sustainability Project was set up in close collaboration with a local community centre that hosted a whole range of different social activities for residents in the neighbourhood. Through the Action Research process, an emerging theme was how local citizens saw community activities as a way to make urban living meaningful by contributing to social life in the area, not just for themselves, but also for the neighbourhood in a broader sense.
