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AI in the street: creating everyday observatories of AI in city streets

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 05:07:00 GMT

Public AI observatories launched in UK and Australian cities engaged communities in exploring AI’s real-world impact. Findings are now guiding local governments on inclusive and responsible AI governance.

Trust Mapping workshops: Exploring the social distribution of knowledge

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:54:00 GMT

Trust Mapping workshops are a method used to encourage reflective learning within a system or organisation. Workshop participants work together to create a visualisation of social relationships, which can help to examine issues and potential improvements. The Scaling Trust project conducted trust mapping workshops with security practitioners working in cyber security.

Imagining and Mapping UK Green Economy Futures

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 02:19:00 GMT

The Complexity Appropriate Participatory Techniques Utilised for Reimagining Energy policy Design (CAPTURED) project is a futures study that uses participatory methods to envision alternative UK green economy futures leading up to 2050.

Transnational Participatory Action Research with Young Adult Key Populations

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 01:01:00 GMT

The Digital Health and Rights project (DHRP) promotes digital equity by engaging young key populations in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, and Vietnam to co-produce research on barriers to online health access. The project findings highlight how stigma, digital exclusion, and inadequate infrastructure hinder the right to health in the digital age.

Co-designing data visualisations with grassroots mapmakers

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:25:00 GMT

For the ESRC-Digital Good Network project, we teamed up with Geochicas, a feminist map-makers grassroots, to co-design data visualisations as a method to surface how neutrality operates in a particular digital good.

Visualisation and Interactive Simulation for Education and Engagement

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:09:00 GMT

This project explores the use of data visualisation and interactive computational simulations as methods for engagement with complex subjects and as methods to support learning and developing awareness.