Media
Awards
2013: NBC Universal Rev Up Change Challenge Runner-Up
2013: Netexplo 100 2013 for the Public Lab DIY Spectrometry Kit
2011:Prix Ars Electronica Runner-Up in Digital Communities
2011: Knight Foundation Knight News Challenge
Publications
"Grassroots Mapping: Creating a participatory map-making process centered on discourse" Journal of Aesthetics and Protest: Issue 8- Grassroots Modernism- Shannon Dosemagen, Jeff Warren, & Sara Wylie, 12/1/11
"From Grassroots Mapping to a Public Laboratory" Citizen Science Quarterly vol. 1 - Adam Griffith, Jeffrey Warren, & Sara Wylie, 3/29/11
"Neogeographic approach to inexpensive oil spill mapping" Directions Magazine - Jeffrey Warren & Stewart Long, 9/1/10
Articles
"Detritivore Design: How to use trash to create scalable solutions" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Mathew Lippincott, 4/30/2013
"How Public Lab Turned Kickstarter Crowdfunders into a Community" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Jeff Warren and Becki Chall, 4/2/2013
"How Public Lab Creates Memorable Field trips for Students" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Adam Griffith, 3/15/2013
"Public Lab's 'Spectral Challenge' Promotes Open Source Spectrometry" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Shannon Dosemagen and Chris Fastie, 4/7/2013
"Balloon Mapping from the Ground Up: Public Lab's field techniques" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Stewart Long, 1/2/13
"EcoHack Highlights: Sewage, Pedal Power and Cotton Candy" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Liz Barry, 12/19/12
"Public Lab Taps into Community with Annual Barnraising in Louisiana" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Shannon Dosemagen, 11/15/12
"Public Lab Uses Kickstarter to Bring DIY Spectrometry to the Masses" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Jeff Warren, 9/13/12
"High altitude Balloon mapping with Public Laboratory, Hak5 1202.1"Hak5 - Mathew Lippincott, 8/29/12
"Movement Based Arts Inspire Public Lab's DIY Environmental Science" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Liz Barry, 8/13/12
"How Public Lab Drafts the Public with its Open-Source Tool Development Process" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Sara Wylie, 6/20/12
"Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science" Anthropology News - Christine Walley, 5/12
"Public Lab's Keys to Developing Low-Cost Science Tools" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Mathew Lippincott and Adam Griffith, 5/22/12
"How we got here: the road to Public Lab's map projects" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Stewart Long, 5/3/12
"First aerial maps produced by citizens featured on Google Earth and Google Maps" Knight Foundation Blog - Shannon Dosemagen, 4/18/12
"Public Lab's Community Created Maps Land On Google Earth" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Shannon Dosemagen, 4/19/12
"Water Hackathon Aims to Understand Brooklyn's Water Pollution" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Leif Percifield, 4/9/12
"The Faces Behind Public Lab's Grassroots Research Community" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Shannon Dosemagen and Sara Wylie, 3/12/12
"Why Collaborative Development Works in a Proprietary World" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Jeff Warren, 2/15/12
"How Public Lab's Thermal Flashlight Could Improve Home Insulation" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Sara Wylie, 1/17/12
"Public Lab Produces Wetlands Maps from Balloon and Kite Flights" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog- Stewart Long, 1/4/12
"Public Laboratory: Don't Just Report Science, Do It!" PBS MediaShift - Shannon Dosemagen, Jeff Warren and Sara Wylie, 11/23/11
"Flying High:KITE MAPPING A CHEAP WAY TO CAPTURE IMAGES FROM ABOVE"Montana Standard Video - Mathew Lippincott and Olivia Everett, 11/20/11
"Public Lab's 'Barnraising' Focuses on DIY Infrared Camera Development" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog- Adam Griffith, 11/16/11
"Public Lab Aims for Affordable Hydrogen Sulfide Sensors" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog- Sara Wylie and Shannon Dosemagen, 10/25/11
"With Public Lab, a Camera Flies in Brooklyn to Monitor Pollution" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog- Liz Barry, 10/3/11
"Taking Steps Toward DIY Spectrometry, So Citizens Can Test for Pollutants" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Jeff Warren, 9/8/11
"Public Lab Helps Communities Do 'Civic Science' Investigations" PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Blog - Shannon Dosemagen, 8/17/11
"Seed Grant Voices: Grassroots Mapping Kit" MIT Legatum Center - Jeff Warren, 5/27/10
"DIY Mappers offer remarkable images of Gulf Coast oil spill" PBS IdeaLab blog - Jeff Warren, 5/12/10
Opensource.com - Jeff Warren, 6/3/10
Presentations & Events
April 6, 2013 - New York - Liz Barry. iLAND Symposium: Embodied research.
April 4, 2013 - New York, NY - Liz Barry. NY Tech Incubator Citizen Science Panel: How is data visualization and citizen science driving new technologies and improving life on Earth? With CartoDB and Foursquare
March 29, 2013 - Jersey City, NJ - Shannon Dosemagen. Advance Publications. Grassroots Science and Civic Media Collaborations
February 28, 2013 - Washington, D.C. - Liz Barry. FedGeo Day: Visions for improving federal geodata, AKA, "gov can dish it, but can they take it?"
November 16, 2012 - Baltimore, MD - Liz Barry. University of Baltimore, Maryland Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education Seminar Series
November 11, 2012 - London, UK - Shannon Dosemagen. Science Online London: Public Participation in Research.
November 9, 2012 New York, NY - Liz Barry. EcoHackIII aerial microbes
October 19, 2012 - Copenhagen, Denmark- Sara Wylie and Shannon Dosemagen, Society for the Social Study of Science, Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science: Open-source development of tools for grassroots science
October 16, 2012 - Copenhagen, Denmark-Sara Wylie Digital STS Workshop
October 13, 2012 - Portland, Oregon - Mathew Lippincott and Liz Barry. State Of The Map US
September 28, 2012 - New York, NY - Liz Barry and Shannon Dosemagen. Open Hardware Summit "Supporting Community Advocacy"
September 22, 2012 - New York, NY - Liz Barry. Informal Waste Sector Conference, Communities: Big Data and Mobile Governance Panel. "Big Participation: Public Laboratory and OpenStreetMap"
September 20, 2012 - Lexington, KY- Shannon Dosemagen, Department of Geography.
September 1, 2012 - Linz, Austria- Jeff Warren. ARS Electronica Festival 2012. The Big Picture: Concepts for a New World
August 5, 2012 - Portland, OR- Shannon Dosemagen and Mathew Lippincott. Public Participation in Scientific Research conference poster
July 3, 2012 - Cape Town, South Africa- Shannon Dosemagen. Understanding Risk Forum: Mapping Global Risk: Applications of crowdsourcing for development and disaster response
June 27, 2012 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Jeffrey Warren. "Citizen Science: for whom?" Citizen Science on the Move (conference), Waag Society/University of Utrecht.
June 28, 2012 - Troy, NY- Shannon Dosemagen, Mathew Lippincott, Sara Wylie. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Triple Helix, Technoscience as Activism conference: Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
June 27, 2012 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Jeff Warren. Waag Society: Citizen Science Presentation
June 19, 2012 - New York, NY - Liz Barry. EPA Region 2 Citizen Science Conference. "Civic Science: An Open Research Model"
June 13, 2012 - New York, NY - Liz Barry. Urban Design Faculty Seminar at Columbia University Graduate School for Architecture Planning and Preservation.
May 19, 2012 - Houston, TX - Shannon Dosemagen. Environmental Justice Encuentro: Community Generated Air Column Monitoring
May 11, 2012 - Providence, RI - Sara Wylie. Society for Cultural Anthropology: Practicing Cultural Critique of Science: How helium balloons and digital cameras can rival satellites
April 20, 2012 - New York, NY - Liz Barry and Shannon Dosemagen. EcoHack II: Air Column Monitor
April 2, 2012 - San Francisco, California - Mathew Lippincott, Stewart Long.
Where 2.0, O'reilly Media: "Grassroots Mapping Flight Demo"
March 24, 2012 - Boston, MA - Liz Barry. Harvard Landscape Infrastructure Symposium: Citizen Cartographies.
March 11, 2012 - Austin, Texas - Shannon Dosemagen, Mathew Lippincott, Jen Hudon, Greg Foster, SXSW Interactive- Public Laboratory panel
March 9, 2012 - Houston, Texas - Shannon Dosemagen and Mathew Lippincott, Tx/Rx Labs- "Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Sceince"
March 9 - April 19, 2012 - San Francisco, California - SOMArts - "I Am Crime, Art on the Edge of Law", http://www.somarts.org/iamcrime
February 17, 2012 - London, United Kingdom - Shannon Dosemagen and Sara Wylie, 2nd Annual Citizen Cyberscience Summit- Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science: Open-source development of tools for grassroots science
January 15, 2012 - New York, NY - Liz Barry. Energy! A New School Moment Panel. "Spectroscopy and the Thingness of Energy"
December 13, 2011 - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Liz Barry, Eye on Earth Summit. Civic Science vs. Crowdsourcing". Presenters at Innovation Forum- Liz Barry and Shannon Dosemagen
November 16, 2011 - Montreal, Quebec - Shannon Dosemagen and Jeffrey Warren, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting:
Panel: Prototype
Paper: Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science: Open-Source Development of Tools for Grassroots Science
November 4, 2011 - Cleveland, Ohio - Shannon Dosemagen, Society for Social Studies of Science:
Panel: STS in Practice: Science, Engineering and STS as Partners in Social Justice and Sustainability.
Paper: Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science: Environmental Justice, Citizen Science, and Participatory STS in Monitoring of Disaster Landscapes.
October 13, 2011 - New York, NY - Liz Barry. Mobility Shifts @ The New School "DIY-U Civic Science: tools for learning, tools for research"
Sept 16, 2011 - Denver, Colorado - Stewart Long, Shannon Dosemagen FOSS4G 2011: "Beyond vectors: Adapting remote sensing research for environmental monitoring with open source hardware and software: Citizen mapping the BP oil spill with balloons and kites
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Sept 15, 2011 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - "Creating cheap open source aerial imagery and data for community efforts to cleanup a polluted neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, USA" (slides)- Eymund Diegel, PICNIC 2011
Sept 15, 2011 - Denver, Colorado - Jeff Warren, Adam Griffith, FOSS4G 2011: "Crowdsourcing Aerial Image Mapping with MapMill.org and MapKnitter.org"
Sept 11, 2011 - Denver, Colorado - Shannon Dosemagen, Jeff Warren, State of the Map 2011 - "Developing an Ethics of Data Openness and Community Participation"
Sept 8, 2011 - Boulder, Colorado - Jeff Warren, Mapping Democratization Conference, CU Boulder - "Situating activist mapping technology"
Aug 13, 2011 - Lima, Peru - Jeff Warren, Open Data conference
June 22, 2011 - Cambridge, Massachusetts - Shannon Dosemagen and Adam Griffith, talk and workshop at the MIT Knight conference
June 6-7, 2011 - New York City - Personal Democracy Forum 2011, Jeff Warren and Liz Barry - "Open Source Aerial Imagery"
May 6-7, 2011 - Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis, Jeff Warren
- Cambridge, Massachusetts - Liz Barry and Jeff Warren, talk & workshop, "Community-based approaches to high-resolution multispectral imaging with balloons" & "How to make your own aerial imagery for $100"
April 7, 2011 - University of Georgia Athens, Roosevelt Institute for Public Policy, Shannon Dosemagen keynote and panelist on emergency preparedness and policy response
Mar 25, 2011 - Trade School @ the Whitney Museum of American Art
- New York City: Public Laboratory will be teaching a class on DIY Spectrometry at the Whitney starting at 7pm.
March 4, 2011 - BLUE on Tour- Auburn University, Alabama
- 1:00 - 2:30pm, Shannon Dosemagen - "Master Class: Innovations in Aerial-Mapping Technology"
- http://publiclaboratory.org/event/3-4-2011/blue-tour-auburn-university-a...
Feb 11, 2011 - Tech@State Open Source conference
- US Department of State - Jeffrey Warren, ""
- Subsequent unconference organized by US Dept. of State - Liz Barry, Leif Percifield, "Citizen Science"
Jan 22, 2011 - California Map Society
- UCLA Clark Library - Stewart Long
Nov 18, 2010 - Personal Democracy Forum Latin America
- Santiago, Chile - Jeff Warren
Nov 12, 2010 - Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science
- Pittsburgh - Jeff Warren http://www.cmu.edu/events/gigapixel-science/
Oct 31-Nov 3, 2010 - Geologic Society of America, Denver Annual Meeting
Oct 1-3, 2010 International Conference on Crisis Mapping
- Boston - Jeff Warren - http://www.crisismappers.net/page/iccm-2010-agenda
Aug 12, 2010 - Ignite Spatial
- Boston, MA - Jeff Warren http://ignite.oreilly.com/2010/07/ignite-spatial-boston-2.html
June 3-4, 2010 - Personal Democracy Forum
- New York, NY - Jeff Warren
May 19 2010 Crisis Mappers Network Webcast
- GeoTime webcast - Jeff Warren - [http://www.geotime.com/cmnet.aspx](Mapping the Gulf Oil Spill With Balloons & Kites)
Press and Public Lab Mentions
Trajectory Magazine.com: Friday's Food for Thought: DIY aerial mapping, Lindsay Tilton, 5/3/13
Atlantic Cities: DIY Mapping Goes Mainstream, Emily Badger, 5/1/13
NextCity: DIY Science for Civic Good, Nancy Scola, 4/16/13
Wired UK: How to Make Balloon Maps, Madhumita Venkataramanan, 3/22/13
Storify: What is Critical Citizen Science? A Dialogue: Part 1, dan mcquillan, 3/27/2013
Wired.com: Analyze This: Design Contest Seeks Your Cheap, Open Source Spectrometers - Nathan Hurst, 3/7/2013
Teach STEM Now: Turn a School Laptop into an Inexpensive Spectrometer - Al Chirinian, 1/5/2013
FastCompany.com: A DIY kite to determine if your water is contaminated - Emily Badger, 1/8/2013
* Also linked to in http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/
Boston.com: Massachusetts' Biggest Kickstarter Campaigns, Alli Knothe, 1/8/2013
Kickstarter: Best of Kickstarter 2012 - Kickstarter, 1/8/2013
Popular Mechanics: 9 Disaster-Relief Inventions - Laura Kiniry, 12/31/2012
Popular Mechanics: Seeing the Light - Adam Hadhazy, January 2013 print edition
Chemical and Engineering News: Do-it-Yourself Spectrometer, Lab in the City - Deirdre Lockwood, 11/19/2012
Homeland Security Today Crowdsourcing Volunteers Contribute To FEMA's Sandy Response - Dan Verton
11/09/12
MAKE: Raspberry Pi in the Sky! - Kevin Osborn, 11/8/2012
FEMA: FEMA thanking those who adapted MapMill for Hurricane Sandy 10/7/12
Slashdot: All Over but the Funding: open hardware spectrometer kit - MyBlueVan, 9/22/12
The Wall Street Journal: The Apple/Google Map Wars: what comes next? - Tom Gara, 9/20/12
Kickstarter blog: Case Study: Grassroots Mapping - Diana Kimball, 9/13/12
The Powerbase: The State of Open Source Spectrometry - Tom Nardi, 9/5/12
Sunlight Foundation blog: Filming OpenGov Champions: Liz Barry - Tiina Knuutila, 9/5/12
Dickinson et. al. 2012. The Current State of Citizen Science as a Tool for Ecological Research and Public Engagement. In Ecological Society of America, frontiersinecology.org.
New York Times: Seeking Brooklyn's Lost Mass Grave - Justin Burke, 8/25/12
Atlantic Cities: The Future of Aerial Mapmaking: Cheap helium balloons - Emily Badger, 8/30/12
Kickstarter Blog: Citizen Science and the Spectrometer: A Love Story - Cassie Marketos, 8/30/12
New York Times: For local residents, a mission to clean up the Gowanus Canal - Peter Moskowitz, 7/16/12
MarthaHenson: blog: Notes from #SXSWi: Public Lab: Mapping, DIY Activism & Civic Science #PublicLab - Martha Henson, 5/21/12
CassandraDaily: All Mapped Up - 5/18/12
LifeHacker: How to balloon map your neighborhood Google Maps style - Thorin Klosowski, 5/17/12
Geek.com: Geek projects: Adventures in balloon mapping - Sal Cangeloso, 5/17/12
The Verge: Occupy maps the skies over May Day protests with DIY balloon cameras- Joshua Kopstein, 5/2/12
Google Earth Sightseer: New Balloon and Kite Imagery - featured blog for April 2012 edition
Engadget: Google Earth adds balloon and kite imagery, invites you to contribute- Donald, Melanson, 4/17/12
Clubic: Google Earth devient participatif, cerfs-volants et ballons ? l'h?lium requis- Audrey Oeillet, 4/17/12
Gizmodo: Balloon and kite cameras give gorgeous Google Earth- Molly Oswaks, 4/17/12
Google Lat Long Blog: Balloon and kite imagery in Google Earth- Christiaan Adams, 4/17/12
Knight Foundation Blog: Knight News Challenge winners discuss successes, road bumps and challenges - Elizabeth Miller, 4/17/12
Google Maps Mania: Mapping with Drones - Keith Clarke, 3/21/12
UNICEF: In Brazil, adolescents use UNICEF's new digital mapping technology to reduce disaster risks in the favelas - Caparelli, et al., 3/19/12
MAKE zine blog: Alt.SXSW: DIY Balloon and Kite Mapping - Adam Flaherty, 3/16/12
FSG Global Health Blog: Responding To Health Challenges Through Grassroots Mapping - Carina Wendel, 3-7-2012
Le Monde Science and Techno Section: Les Sciences Citoyennes: Les profanes jouent avec les experts- 3-3-12
New Scientist: Thermal Flashlight 'Paints' Cold Rooms with Colour - 3-2-12
NPR On the Media Drones: Coming to a Sky Near You?- 1-13-12
Boston Globe: Knight Foundation Merging Media, Minds and Money- D.C. Denison, 11-11
The Mobile City (also appeared on Data Driven Journalism): How Kite Photography Can Empower Local Communities- Martin de Waal, 10-11
Creative Applications Network: Mediated Landscapes 03: DIY Cartography (Theory)- Greg J. Smith, 8-11
Tech President: How DIY Science is Solving Ecological Mysteries in New York City- Nick Judd, 8-25-11
BBC Click: How to Create Your Own Aerial Map- 8-19-11
BBC Radio: Laura Sheeter Talks About Aerial Photos: Did you know you could now take your own aerial pictures? Join Laura on an aerial view of New Orleans- Laura Sheeter, 8-3-11
Harvard Nieman Journalism Lab: The MacGyver method: With News Challenge funding, The Public Lab is building up its civic media toolkit- Megan Garber, 07-11
Grist: In the future, cleaning robots will sniff out air pollution- Jess Zimmerman, 7-18-11
Technology Review: Robot lights up at pollution- Kristina Grifantini, 7-17-11
PBS MediaShift IdeaLab: MIT Produces a String of Civic Media Success Stories - Chris Csikszentmih?lyi, 3-14-11
Good Magazine: Grassroots Mapping: How You Can Create Aerial Cartography for Under $100, and Use It to Do Good - Ben Jervey, 3-7-11
LifeHacker: Weekend Project: DIY Balloon Aerial Photography on the Cheap - Adam Pash, 2-17-11
Wilamette Week: Local Designer To Build Balloons To Help Document Gulf Oil Spill - Ron Knox, 6-25-2010
SolveClimate News: $100 Aerial Mapping Technique Finding Multiple Uses, Grassroots Interest with slideshow - Lisa Song, 2-15-11
Brooklyn Eagle: D.I.Y Mapping of the Gowanus? - Mike Weiss, 1/27/11
OnEarth Magazine: Mapping the Grassroots - Alan Burdick, 1/27/11
Boston Globe - D.C. Denison, 9/05/10
Associated Press - BARBARA ORTUTAY, 9/19/10
abc.net - (australia) - 9/16/10
Guilty Planet - "Balloon on the Bayou: Grassroots Mapping in Bay Baptiste" - Jennifer L. Jacquet, 7/13/10
france24.com - 6/18/10
Engadget: MIT-based Grassroots Mapping mapping the oil spill with digital camera, kites - Laura June, 6/17/10
The Takeaway - Noel King, 6/15/10
Inhabitat: DIY Kite Photographs the Gulf Oil Spill to Map its True Size - Britt Liggett, 6/10/10
NYTimes bits blog: Taking On the Gulf Oil Spill With Kites and Cameras
green.blogs.nytimes.com - Jeremy Zilar,
WGBH Boston - 6/7/10
WBUR Boston - Andrew Phelps, 5/27/10
JustMeans.com - Marcia Stepanek, 6/5/10
Daily Kos - Crashing Vor, 5/27/10
Earth2tech - Katie Fehrenbacher, 6/5/10
MIT News Office - David Chandler, 5/17/10
PBS IdeaLab blog - Andrew Whitacre, 5/19/10
CNN - John Sutter, 5/6/10
Mashable - Geoff Livingston, 5/15/10
TechPresident - Nancy Scola, May 27, 2010
PopTech - Sloane Berrent, 6/1/10
AOL Autos - Kevin Ransom, 6/3/10
WorldChanging - \WorldChanging Team, 5/25/10
TreeHugger, 8/25/10
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