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Public Lab friends, partners and collaborators

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Thanks to the collaboration and support with the following organization and individuals, the work of Public Lab is made possible.

  • Al Houla Association and Beit Atfal Assumoud are two non-governmental organisations based in Bourj Al Shamali refugee camp in south Lebanon and who work with youth and on improving living conditions in the camp. (since 2015)

  • Appalachian Mountaintop Patrol A collaborative, environmental watchdog and multimedia education initiative that works with environmental activists and other community members in the Coal River Valley and Kanawha forest regions of West Virginia to use documentary filmmaking, video surveillance, aerial photography and citizen science to chronicle and take action against the ongoing environmental contamination and the public health crisis caused by Mountaintop Removal and Hydrofracking in the area. (since 2015)

  • Basurama (Spain) is a non-profit organization that raises awareness of waste production and studies waste as a resource through a series of workshops, public art interventions and multimedia projects where participant-users take active part in the search, selection of waste, as well as in the collaborative process of design and construction. (since 2013)

  • Ben-Gurion University in the Negev (Beer Sheva, Israel) (2013)

  • Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Jerusalem, Israel) Architecture department, civic architecture unit.

  • BIMKOM – Planners for Planning Rights is an Israeli non-profit organization formed in 1999 by a group of planners and architects, in order to strengthen democracy and human rights in the field of planning. (since 2015)

  • Civic Hall (New York, New York) a new home for civic tech. (since 2014)

  • Concerned Chippewa Citizen (Wisconsin) CCC provides information and resources to those fighting the rapidly proliferating Frac Sand Mines and Processing Facilities in Wisconsin. (since 2014)

  • Crawford Stewardship Project (Wisconsin) Crawford Stewardship Project works in Wisconsin to protect the environment of Crawford County and neighboring regions from threats of polluting and extractive industries, to promote sustainable land use, environmental justice, and local control of natural resources. (since 2014)

  • DFR Robot is a world-leading robotics and open source hardware provider with a large community catering to future creators. We keep creating innovative, user-friendly hardware & software products that become the building blocks in all kinds of electronic projects and fostering a strong community of learners around it. (since 2016)

  • Dredge Research Collaborative (United States) The Dredge Research Collaborative investigates human sediment handling practices, through publications, an event series, and various other projects. (since 2014)

  • Environmental Data Governance Initiative The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) is an international network of academics and non-profits addressing potential threats to federal environmental and energy policy, and to the scientific research infrastructure built to investigate, inform, and enforce. Dismantling this infrastructure — which ranges from databases to satellites to models for climate, air, and water — could imperil the public’s right to know, the United States’ standing as a scientific leader, corporate accountability, and environmental protection. (since 2016)

  • Farm Hack Farm Hack aims to nurture the development, documentation, and manufacture of farm tools for resilient agriculture. (since 2011)

  • Forensic Architecture, a research consultancy undertaking spatial and media analysis for the investigation of human rights violations. (since 2015)

  • The FracTracker Alliance, studies, maps, and communicates the risks of oil and gas development to protect our planet and support the renewable energy transformation. (since 2016)

  • Gathering for Open Science Hardware (since 2016)

  • Gowanus Canal Conservancy (Brooklyn, NY) The Gowanus Canal Conservancy is a community-based non-profit organization that serves as the environmental steward for the Gowanus Canal Watershed. (since 2010)

  • Gowanus Dredgers (Brooklyn, NY) The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club is a volunteer organization dedicated to providing waterfront access and education related to the estuary and bordering shoreline neighborhoods. (since 2010)

  • Green Community Garden (Newark, New Jersey) (since 2014)

  • Greenovation Hub 创绿中心 (Guangzhou, China) Water shortage and pollution is a critical problem in many Chinese villages. Teaming up with experts and scholars, we have invented water testing packs to enable citizens to gather and upload data for water quality map, as well as low-cost DIY drinking water kits for villagers to tackle this vital issue. (since 2016)

  • Groundwork New Orleans Green Team Groundwork USA is the only network of local organizations devoted to transforming the natural and built environment of marginalized communities — a national enterprise with local roots, working at the intersection of the environment, equity and civic engagement. Groundwork New Orleans and their Greenteam has worked with Public Lab since 2015 including work on mapping for the Urban Waters project, work on the oil testing kit and the stormwater workshop series of 2017. (since 2015)

  • Gulf Monitoring Consortium (Gulf Coast US) The Gulf Monitoring Consortium is a rapid response alliance that collects, analyzes and publishes images and other information acquired from space, from the air, and from the surface in order to investigate and expose pollution incidents that occur in the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf Coast region. (since 2013)

  • Gulf Restoration Network (Gulf Coast US) The Gulf Restoration Network is committed to uniting and empowering people to protect and restore the natural resources of the Gulf Region. (since 2010)

  • Institute for the Monitoring and Surveillance of Contaminated Areas (From the Spanish Instituto de Monitorización y Vigilancia de Espacios Contaminados, IMVEC) (since 2016)

  • InfoAmazonia Provides timely news and reports of the endangered Amazon region. A network of organizations and journalists deliver updates from the nine countries of the forest. (since 2015)

  • iSeeChange is a community science and weather journal. ISeeChange Joined Public Lab for the New Orleans Depth Sensing event in (since 2016)

  • LUMCON (Cocodrie, LA) The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) was formed in 1979 to increase society's awareness of the environmental, economic and cultural value of Louisiana's coastal and marine environments by conducting research and education programs directly relevant to Louisiana's needs in marine science and coastal resources and serving as a facility for all Louisiana schools with interest in marine research and education. (since 2012)

  • MEJAC The Mobile Environmental Justice Action Coalition was formed in 2013 with the mission to engage and organize with Mobile’s most threatened communities in order to defend the inalienable rights to clean air, water, soil, health, and safety and to take direct action when government fails to do so, ensuring community self-determination. (since 2017)

  • MIT Center for Civic Media (Cambridge, MA) The MIT Center for Civic Media works hand in hand with diverse communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy, and assess civic media tools and practices. (since 2010)

  • Mystic River Watershed Association (Arlington, MA) The Mystic River Watershed Association (MyRWA) works to protect and improve environmental conditions for the more than one half million residents within the 22 community Mystic River Watershed. (2014)

  • Northeastern University Social Science and Environmental Health Research Institute (Boston, MA) The mission of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute is to conduct social science-oriented research, teaching, community engagement, and policy work in the area of environmental health.

  • Parts and Crafts (Somerville, MA) Parts and Crafts runs hands-on creative arts, science, and engineering programs for kids and adults to help people learn and do and make things. (since 2011)

  • Propeller- (New Orleans, LA) Propeller is a New Orleans-based nonprofit organization founded in 2009 that incubates and launches socially minded ventures from its coworking space on Washington and Broad, where workspace and event space are available for rent. (since 2014)

  • Save the Hills Alliance (Wisconsin) help educate the public about the environmental impact of the silica frac sand industry and silica dust air pollution and diesel emissions, surface and groundwater contamination, and truck traffic safety issues. (since 2014)

  • Southeast side coalition to ban petcoke Residents of the South East Side of Chicago who have come together to rid the neighborhood from the fugitive dust from Petcoke stored in their neighborhood. (since 2015)

  • Aeroscene and Studio Tomas Saraceno for work on the Aerocene. The Aerocene manifests as a series of air-fuelled sculptures that will achieve the longest, emission-free journey around the world: becoming buoyant only by the heat of the Sun and infrared radiation from the surface of Earth. The sculpture floats without burning fossil fuels, without using solar panels and batteries; and without helium, hydrogen and other rare gases. Aerocene holds a message of simplicity, creativity and cooperation for a world of tumultuous geopolitical relations, reminding us of our symbiotic relationship with the Earth and all its species. (since 2016)

  • Surfrider Emerald Coast Chapter We are the beach people. The surfers, paddle boarders, kayakers, fishermen, swimmers, beach runners, and walkers. We are activists who want to protect the ocean environment, and our access to it! The ocean and beaches are our playground! (since 2015)

  • Tidmarsh Farms (Manomet, MA) Tidmarsh Farms, a 577 acre private farm situated in historic Plymouth, Massachusetts, combines a large wetlands restoration and conservation project with an operating cranberry bog, a stewardship and technology program and limited low-impact residential living. (since 2013)

  • UC-Davis Center for Community and Citizen Science (Davis, CA) The Center for Community and Citizen Science is a home to programs and partnerships that revolutionize how—and with whom—science gets done. Based on a foundation of research excellence, the Center helps scientists, communities, and citizens collaborate on science to address environmental problems as a part of civic life. (since 2016)

  • UCL ExCiteS (London, UK) ExCiteS brings together scholars from diverse fields to develop and contribute to the guiding theories, tools and methodologies that will enable any community to start a Citizen Science project to deal with issues that concern them. (since 2012)

  • Voices of St. Tammany A group of proud and engaged citizens from Abita Springs, Covington, Lacombe, Mandeville, Madisonville, Slidell, Pearl River, Folsom, Bush, Sun and all the gorgeous country in between! (since 2015)

  • Waycross Silent Disaster We are a small neighborhood community located in Waycross, GA. Everything was going fine until one day we began to notice that people within our neighborhood were being diagnosed with weird conditions. Some were told they had some an unknown form of cancer, another discovers tumors within their body’s organs and/or muscles, while other people developed respiratory, cardiac, muscular problems, problems with their feet, overall pains and many numerous other symptoms. (since 2016)

  • Zochrot ("remembering" in Hebrew) is an NGO working since 2002 to promote acknowledgement and accountability for the ongoing injustices of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. (2015)


One-time Collaborations, Workshops and Visits

2017

Appalachia Barnraising: * West Virginia University Reed College of Media, at the Media Innovation Center Partnered with Public Lab hosting the 2017 Appalachia Barnraising.

Other participants in Appalachia Barnraising were from:

2016

  • CCEJN The Central California Environmental Justice Network joined Public Lab for the 2016 Regional Barnraising in Val Verde, CA. July 2016

  • C4CCLC Citizens for Chiquita Canyon Landfill Compliance partnered with Public Lab for the 2016 Regional Barnraising in Val Verde, CA. July 2016

  • Middlebury College Studio Art Department's Class "Magic & Mystery: the Science of Art", January 2016.

  • SCOPE Santa Clarita Organization for Planning and the Environment partnered with Public Lab for the 2016 Regional Barnraising in Val Verde, CA. July 2016

  • ZKU, the Center for Art and Urbanistics in Berlin for an artist residency and exhibition. The residency was possible thanks to the generous support of the Andrea Von Braun Foundation. Workshops with young refugees in Berlin were held with the support of the Kreuzberger Kinderstiftung. July and August 2016

2015

  • Civic Lab hosted the 2015 Regional Barnraising. (2015)

2014

  • Barataria Bay Mapping Project (Barataria Bay, LA) Boat captains that donated their time and resources include: Richie Blink, Captain Jody Donewar, Zach Mouton and David Bourgeois of Big Dog Fishing Charters, 2014

  • Guardians of the Land and Water (Grand Bois, LA), 2014

  • Hundredth Monkey Maker Space (Menomonie WI), 2014

  • Propublica ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. 2014

  • Rosa F. Keller Library- (New Orleans, LA) Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center is one of the many branches of the New Orleans Public Library System. We are located in the heart of the Broadmoor Community. (2014)

2013

  • Belize Open Source - Sustainable Development (Belize) BOSSD is a non-profit that promotes environmentally and socially sustainable development. It is based on an open source approach to plan, implement, and participate in a land-based learning and community outreach center and working farm on a 40 acre property in northwestern Belize, near the village of August Pine Ridge. (2013)

  • Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation (Brooklyn, NY) With community residents leading the way, the mission of CHLDC is to build a strong, sustainable Cypress Hills and East New York, where youth and adults achieve educational and economic success, secure healthy and affordable housing and develop leadership skills to transform their lives and community. (2013)

  • Ironbound Community Corporation (Newark, NJ) ICC’s mission is to engage and empower individuals, families and groups in realizing their aspirations and, together, work to create a just, vibrant and sustainable community. (2013)

  • Proteus Gowanus (Brooklyn, NY) Proteus Gowanus is an interdisciplinary gallery and reading room. Named for the Greek sea god of change and the adjacent Gowanus Canal, Proteus Gowanus acts as an interpreter of culture and place, deepening the community’s sense of context and connection. Proteus Gowanus, where Board member Eymund Diegel serves as Archivist, hosts a physical archive of Public Lab Gowanus data. (2011)

2011

  • Madaa Silwan - Creative Center (Silwan, East Jerusalem) The mission of Madaa Silwan is to build a strong, knowledgeable and involved Arab Palestinian community in Silwan, and to provide educational and recreational activities and courses mainly for children, teenagers and women as well.

  • Mamuta Art and Media Center (Jerusalem, Israel) The goal of the Mamuta Project is to advance art projects and to create a framework for artists from different media, as well as curators, architects, designers, and researchers, who wish to create in the spirit of cooperation, dialogue, and technological innovation. See website: mamuta.org.