'Whose Sensing' - inclusive Citizen Science through arts practices
TIME
14:00 – 15:30
TRACKS
TRACK 3: Living Labs for Inclusive Soci(et)al Engagement
ORGANISER
Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC), Bristol’s Living Lab, Martha King
DESCRIPTION
Citizen Science has the potential to create systemic change – by empowering and including citizens in gathering data, creating solutions and impacting policy around issues that directly concern and affect them. However, those most marginalised are often not able to engage, because many citizen science programmes don’t place inclusive engagement at the heart. Our workshop will link to ‘TRACK 3: LLs for Inclusive Soci(et)al Engagement’ by sharing examples and practices of how to create inclusive citizen science programmes, through arts and co-creation practices.
Agenda
Workshop Plan – Overview: This interactive, inclusive, and well-paced workshop aims to inspire, educate, and engage participants through fun and informative activities.
- Introduction and Warm up (10 min)
- Introduction: Facilitators set the tone and outline the session’s aims.
- Warm-Up: Movement-based activities and meditation soundscapes to get to know each other and get into our bodies.
- Contract of Care (5 min)
- Co-create guidelines on how we want to interact and support each other during the session.
- Inspiration Presentation (15 min)
- Showcase videos of past KWMC citizen science projects.
- Carousel of Interactive Stations (45 min total): Participants will rotate through the following stations in small groups:
- Creating Music from Data (15 min)
- Activity: Learn the process of ‘sonification’ using voice, body, and instruments.
- Outcome: Acquire skills to run similar workshops in local communities, inspired by the ‘Slow the Smoke’ project led by a data artist and resulted in music created from air quality data.
- Creating Power from Soil (15 min)
- Activity: Make mud batteries and discuss soil life and earth care.
- Outcome: Engage in hands-on learning about soil ecology and sustainability, inspired by the ‘Garden Lab’ project. A project led by an artist and disabled creatives.
- Collecting Through Nature Diaries (15 min)
- Activity: Participate in a sensing challenge and explore nature diaries.
- Outcome: Learn to shape citizen science questions and discover the local area through different collection practices, inspired by the EU Impetus funded ‘Collect to Connect’ project.
- Closing (15 min)
- Feedback, reflections & questions
- Check out
SPEAKER BIOS
Martha King
Creative Co-Director, Bristol Living Lab (KWMC)
Martha King
Creative Co-Director, Bristol Living Lab (KWMC)Martha King is the Creative Co-Director at Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC). She has over 10 year’s experience of producing citizen led participatory arts and digital projects. At KWMC she has developed and delivered co-creation programmes exploring, data ethics, AI, commons-based approaches and citizen sensing. She is co-author on HCI published paper 'A City in Common: A Framework to Foster Technology Innovation from the Bottom up' and co-author of the chapter ‘We Can Make: Co-Creating Knowledge and Products with Local Communities’ in ‘Co-Creation in Theory and Practice Exploring Creativity in the Global North and South’.
Clara Collett
Data and Insights Lead
Clara Collett
Data and Insights LeadClara is a socially engaged practitioner with over 10 years’ experience specialising in working with young people and the community. Clara is a reflective practice advocator and champions data collection and embedding creative evaluation in programme design. Passionate about accessibility in the arts, tech and digital sector and ensuring participants voices are amplified throughout the programmes at KWMC and beyond.
Julia Costa Carneiro
Research Lead, Knowle West Media Centre
Julia Costa Carneiro
Research Lead, Knowle West Media CentreJulia works with organisations and initiatives to design processes and interventions for civic innovation for over 10 years. In her arts-based approach on collaborative action research she applies systems thinking and knowledges for social-ecological transformation to build capacity for experimentation and collective learning towards just urban futures.