The Public Lab nonprofit filed 501(c)3 papers in Massachusetts, January 2, 2012. The current board members of Public Laboratory include:
Eymund Diegel is a South African trained urban planner who first became interested in real time mapping technologies when creating maps for constantly changing informal settlements in Africa. With the digital technology revolution, he is exploring how personal media devices, such as cell phones, can create network maps of how people live in their communities, and how those ?density trails? can provide more accurate mapping. He lives by the Gowanus Canal, a polluted Superfund site in Brooklyn, NY, where he works with community groups to create time lapse ?digitally transparent? maps, for neighbors to better understand what was historically under their feet, and what they can do about it.
Bobbie King Jr.
Micah Sifry
Dr. Christine Walley is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. She conducts research on environmental politics in both East Africa and the United States. Her first book Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park (Princeton University Press, 2004) explored contestation over Tanzania?s first national marine park as well as competing conceptions of nature and development found among international environmental organizations, island residents, and national government officials. Her second book Exit Zero: An Anthropologist?s Account of Family and Class in Southeast Chicago (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press) considers the environmental implications of the rise and fall of the steel industry on Chicago?s Southeast Side and engages with questions of environmental justice.
Past Board Members:
Mikel Maron, 2011-2012