- Public Lab Helps Communities Do ‘Civic Science’ Investigations | MediaShift Idea Lab • by shannon
- The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) is a community which develops and applies open-source tools to environmental exploration and investigation. Resonating with Public Laboratory’s vision of community engagement and leadership, a little over a year ago — during the BP oil spill — I began working with upwards of 100 Gulf Coast volunteers, as well as fellow team members Jeff Warren and Stewart Long, on Grassroots Mapping, a project to create aerial maps hand-in-hand with Gulf Coast residents that documented ecologically vulnerable sites before, during and after oil hit. …
- So how are we re-imagining civic science? PLOTS argues that civic science places scientific inquiry at the heart of civic life. The ability to test the coherence of ideas about the world is no longer limited by technical barriers to recording, validating, analyzing or sharing data which originally necessitated the “professionalization” of science.
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