What tool features may support greater accessibility to kelp canopy response and recovery data to support ocean scientists? The Client The Nature Conservancy The Challenge Objectives Results The Work The History Kelpwatch emerged from a collaboration between scientists, conservation practitioners, and technologists seeking to operationalize decades of satellite-derived kelp canopy data. The platform visualizes 30+…
Gathering for Open Science Hardware
What can open-source designs, collaborative research, and new manufacturing techniques unlock in the near future? Client The Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) Role Lead Visual Designer, Contract Team Shannon Dosemagen, Luis Felipe, and Jenny Molloy from Gathering for Open Hardware. My Work I worked with the core team between 2017 and 2021 to develop…
Jellyfish – Cell Magazine Visual Abstract
How might I illustrate how an experiment using a new jellyfish genetic model can help scientists understand the evolution of nervous systems and the brain? The client Brandon “Brady” Weissbourd, Caltech. Background Brady uses jellyfish to study nervous system evolution, development, regeneration, and function. In 2021, while at Caltech, Brady published a landmark study in Cell…
ArtEverywhere
Where would teens like to see public art in the City of West Hollywood? Client WeHo Arts Division, a department of the City of West Hollywood in Los Angeles County that promotes the arts as the creative engine of the City through a diverse portfolio of art and cultural programs. My Work I was commissioned to…
The Cultural Policy Convivial Action Card Deck
Part of the multiplatform project, Convivial Actions, by María del Carmen Lamadrid, and Staff of the LA County Department of Arts and Culture.
Convivial Strategies @ Equity Summit 2019
Activity 1 and Activity 2 of Convivial Strategies was a way to record the voices and experiences of County of Los Angeles leadership and staff working on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion issues as part of the LA County Equity Summit 2019. The goal was to kickstart the LA County Department of Arts And Culture’s new…
Community Science Forum
SuperCommunity worked with the Public Lab to redesigned multiple publications, including the Community Science Forum, a zine/research journal with the latest in the DIY environmental science sphere.
Futuro de Frogtown
How can we minimize displacement pressures in Frogtown as investment grows in the LA River while simultaneously giving us, the researchers, the ability to try different approaches to creating together? The client LA-Más staff project funded through a neighbor donation. The Work Futuro de Frogtown was a ten-month co-visioning process to understand what community members…
DIY Oil Testing Toolkit
SuperCommunity worked with the Public Lab to the DIY Oil Testing workbook.
Talleres Públicos Yes to ADU
The workshop explored the elements of what makes a house feel like a home hosted by Big City Forum and the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture Civic Art Program.
PathHack
a fun afternoon of free STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts and Math) workshops to create a community-inspired safe zone for pedestrians on the The Los Angeles River Trail (Greenway/Bike Path). In partnership with the Elysian Valley Neighborhood Watch in collaboration with the Center for Performance and Civic Practice.
Collaborative Stations for the Social Design Toolkit
The Social Design Toolkit is a critical speculative design object. It was created by a group of community leaders in Latin America who want to use post-colonial theory to help social designers understand how human-centered design promotes unequal power dynamics, disenfranchisement, and hegemony. Collaborative Stations expanded on the toolkit by creating objects where people could…
Tools for Stalling: Balloon Mapping
Balloon mapping as a tactic for people-led data collection to challenge land eviction in Uganda.