In 2017, an Atlanta resident approached us with a concern about rats in her neighborhood — there were rats dead and alive, always around, and no one seemed to be doing much about them. Inspired by a project from the University of Michigan called Rat Chat, we began developing the RatWatch project in Atlanta. The […]
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Careful Coding
Careful Coding, is an ongoing collaboration with Block by Block—a neighborhood organization founded in the English Avenue neighborhood of Atlanta. Through the project we are exploring the design and use of tools, processes, and tactics for resident led data collection. Specifically, the project focuses on the collection of code violations: residential and commercial properties that […]
WALT Media
Community-based design to create and use data and digital media in advocating for housing justice
Fruit Are Heavy
Designing and prototyping low-cost, low-fidelity technologies and services to support foraging as part of a diverse community economy
Designs for Foraging
A multi-year partnership with a local foraging collective, through which we are exploring how to design to support diverse economies and informal systems of care
PARSE ATL
Engaging residents, municipal workers, and other stakeholders through participatory design to explore the potentials and issues of smart city technologies and services
The Division of Domestic Data
A speculative design and civic media project by Thomas Lodato that explores the nature of digital property and social connectivity in the context of divorce.
Data Democracy
A satirical, critical project by Tom Jenkins that explored the limitations of automated sentiment analysis as a mode of representative democracy.
Smog Is Democratic
A digital media installation exploring alternate forms of environmental data visualization.
Issue-Oriented Hackathons
How do hackathons work as design events, and what kinds of publics and action do hackathons actually enable?