The disaster and climate change artathon: Staging art/science collaborations in crisis informatics

Robert Soden; Perrine Hamel; David Lallemant; James Pierce

doi:10.1145/3357236.3395461

The disaster and climate change artathon: Staging art/science collaborations in crisis informatics

Robert Soden, Perrine Hamel, David Lallemant, James Pierce

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Abstract

Information systems increasingly shape our knowledge of crises such as disasters and climate change. While these tools improve our capacity to understand, prepare for, and mitigate such challenges, critical questions are being raised about how their design shapes public imagination of these problems and delimits potential solutions. Prior work in human-computer interaction (HCI) has pointed to art/science collaboration as one approach for helping to explore such questions. As an attempt to draw on this potential, our team designed and facilitated a 2-day "artathon" that brought together artists and scientists to create new works of art based on disaster and climate data. Reflecting on the artathon and its outcomes, we contribute two sets of findings. First, we articulate opportunities, suggested by the artwork, for expanding research and design in crisis informatics. Second, we offer suggestions for HCI researchers seeking to stage successful art/science collaborations or similar inter-disciplinary events.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	1273-1286
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450369749
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395461
Publication status	Published - Jul 3 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020 - Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: Jul 6 2020 → Jul 10 2020

Publication series

Name	DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Conference

Conference	2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Eindhoven
Period	7/6/20 → 7/10/20

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Human-Computer Interaction
Software

Keywords

Art/science collaboration
Crisis informatics
Critical data studies
Workshops

UN SDGs

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Soden, R., Hamel, P., Lallemant, D., & Pierce, J. (2020). The disaster and climate change artathon: Staging art/science collaborations in crisis informatics. In DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 1273-1286). (DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395461

Soden, Robert ; Hamel, Perrine ; Lallemant, David et al. / The disaster and climate change artathon : Staging art/science collaborations in crisis informatics. DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2020. pp. 1273-1286 (DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference).

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Soden, R, Hamel, P, Lallemant, D & Pierce, J 2020, The disaster and climate change artathon: Staging art/science collaborations in crisis informatics. in DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 1273-1286, 2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 7/6/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395461

The disaster and climate change artathon: Staging art/science collaborations in crisis informatics. / Soden, Robert; Hamel, Perrine; Lallemant, David et al.
DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2020. p. 1273-1286 (DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference).

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Soden R, Hamel P, Lallemant D, Pierce J. The disaster and climate change artathon: Staging art/science collaborations in crisis informatics. In DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2020. p. 1273-1286. (DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference). doi: 10.1145/3357236.3395461

The disaster and climate change artathon: Staging art/science collaborations in crisis informatics

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