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Kat Austen iilab - information innovation lab London and Berlin Challenges and opportunities in developing methodologies and platforms for citizen science projects

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Kat Austeniilab - information innovation labLondon and Berlin

Challenges and opportunities in developing methodologies and platforms for citizen science projects

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• image: Cascade Butterfly Project, Mount Rainer National Park, NPS photo by Kevin Bacher, Flickr

Richness in data• Data can be misleading

• Richer datasets to provide context

• Explore different modes of interaction with data

The medium is part of the message• Technological devices change how we think• Different senses give different insights• We interpret data through a cultural filter• We create meaning through our community environment

image: Amber Case, flickrHiroshi Ishii, Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab demonstrates a tangible user interface

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image: Cristiano Betta, flickr

Ethics and politics• What do the citizen scientists get out of it?• How can we create spaces for agency and innovation?

image: San Jose Library, flickr

Anchoring practice in human experience

image: Ali Edwards, flickr

Human-centred citizen science• Interdisciplinary approaches•Citizen science methods•DIY science•Embodied experiences of data

Pikslo Deep Dive - underwater interception•Co-mentored workshop: Robertina Sebjanic, Gjino Sutic, Slavko Glamocanin and Kat Austen• Piksel Festival 2015, Bergen, Norway

image: Robertina Sebjanic

Pikslo Deep Dive Methods•DIY Chemistry tests for microplastics•DIY Hydrophone fabrication• Field trips to collect samples and make audio recordings•Visualisations of audio recordings

DIY analysis of microplastics in seaweedimage: Robertina Sebjanic

Hydrophone in fjord captures the sound of our motor

Pikslo Coral Empathy Prototype

Engineering Comes Home•Community co-design methods for infrastructure engineering•Nexus of food, water, waste and energy• Partners: UCL Engineering, Newcastle University’s Open Lab, iilab

Engineering Comes Home•Co-design with the community of what measurements are needed•Sustained engagement•Engagement with politics of infrastructure

Multiple disciplines, knowledge sharing•Sociology•Engineering / engineering design•Software and Hardware technology•Art•Ethnography•Community knowledge

Engagement with complex systems

Community facilitation through technology and citizen science

image: Kate Ter Haar, flickr

what this means to the next 15 years?•More physical and emotive engagement with data•More connected to the environment•Greater understanding of complex systems

what this means to the next 15 years?• Fewer boundaries around science•More engaged citizens

what this means to the next 15 years?•Greater community cohesion•More community-driven understanding of fruits of citizen science•Diversity of modes of exploring data