Extractivist data collection through citizen science initiatives produces aggregate data that can provide useful insights for policy advocacy. However, these extractivist information systems do little to nurture locally engaged and creative eco-social geographies, support decolonization, or address crises of imagination. In response, this piece asks: What types of interactive information systems would support emplaced processes of relationality, engagement and creativity in urban shoreline ecosystems? How can design support interactive eco-social geographies as terrains for thinking, connecting and enacting? We address these questions through deeply situated work in an urban marine ecosystem called False Creek located in Vancouver, Canada. False Creek is a site of ecological remediation from industrialization and urbanization, and as part of Canada's colonial occupation of unceded first nations territories, it is also a significant site of settler-indigenous reconciliation. This work delves into local history and contemporary relations to orient the production of community engaged design practices and artifacts that prioritize relationality, engagement and creativity. We critically assess our work to design appropriate information systems against the complex goals of enabling interactive, emplaced, enmeshed and reconciliatory eco-social systems.

Sound is a preferred and dominant medium that people with blindness use to capture, share and reflect on meaningful moments in their lives. Within the timeframe of 12 months, we worked with seven people with blindness and two of their sighted loved ones to engage in a multi-stage co-creative design process involving multiple steps building toward the final co-design workshop. We report three types of sonic mementos, designed together with the participants, that Encapsulate, Augment and Re-imagine personal audio recordings into more interesting and meaningful sonic memories. Building on these sonic mementos, we critically reflect and describe insights into designing sound that supports personal and social experiences of reminiscence for people with blindness through sound. We propose design opportunities to promote collective remembering between people with blindness and their sighted loved ones and design recommendations for remembering through sound.