We want to build spaces. For working on projects and plain ideas. The format of the workspace is open to everyone – regardless of previous technical knowledge and academic degree. We aim to conduct one workspace each semester, with a focus on a particularly timely matter.
In the Winter of 2019, we conducted a Workspace for Climate Justice. It was embedded in the Public Climate School, a strike organized by the Students for Future. The Workspace allowed in small exercises to search, understand and visualize DIY climate data and to reflect on the meaning of missing data.
The Workspace allowed in small exercises to search, understand and visualize DIY climate data and to reflect on the meaning of missing data. We arranged four rooms, each with a different focus.
This is how participants entered the workspace and were introduced by data mobilities.
Mapping Mobility
Mobility infrastructures make particular ways of moving around in the city a matter of course. We probably need to change mobility practices to save our planet. One step is to do something very unnatural: Make infrastructures visible. At our Open Climate Space we did this through mapping our way to the RUSTlab and by considering what data to collect to understand mobility infrastructures. Participants marked their ways to the RUSTlab on the map. Routes taken by many became thick lines. Colours marked the different means of transportation (it was a rainy day!)
Adding Stories to Data Visualisations
Data visualisation need stories. Six
pictures were presented that visualise data in one way or the other (thanks to
Open Knowledge Foundation for selecting these visualisations). Participants
added their comments and stories to the pictures.
Take a look at the room for digital experiments.
Data Trash Tarot Game
How do climate futures look? Playing the
Data Trash Tarot Game participants envisioned climate futures based on future
key events, drivers for development and specific lenses.
The Trash Tarot Game is developed by Josh
Lovell und Lauren Cutlip at the STS Future Labs at the James Madison University https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/stsfutureslab/
