Barnraising 2017
Public Lab hosted the 2017 Barnraising November 3rd-5th at LUMCON in Cocodrie, Louisiana. The event drew 36 people from 12 states, and event brought participants from Germany and China.
Session topics for this Barnraising included:
- "Getting started" the beginnings of organizing in the face of environmental issues
- Facilitation techniques and Codes of Conduct
- Louisiana and coastal wetlands
- Existing data and citizen science
- Living with water
- Disaster response and recovery
- Community science for direct intervention/remediation
- Science in the face of denial
- Illustrated guides
- Underpinnings of technical development
- Building an antenna
- Methods and strategies for monitoring H2S
- The Public Lab website
- Microscopes and "how can communities visualize pollutants"
- Exploring problems can crowd sourcing assist
- Funding strategies for environmental monitoring
- Creating tangible games with environmental data
People coming to the Barnraising often want to share on deep topics of interest with each other. Lightning talks have become a way to engage with people's individual projects or topics of expertise that are more about decimating information (rather that requiring a sessions space where we build a collaborative environment of learning).
Lightning talks topics at the 2017 Barnraising included:
- Invasive species in Louisiana
- Exploring leaked emails
- Water born illnesses
- How codes of conduct affect email lists
- An oil monitoring project on Louisiana Beaches
- Games and building to promote learning about the environment
Questions
The Barnraiser
The Barnraiser is a daily paper print publication participants in the Barnraising work together to produce. Below are copies of the Barnraiser that came out of this event:
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