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Author: Artemis

Spilling the Truth: Rethinking River Lea’s Storm Overflow Crisis Maps

by Jakleen Al-Dalal’a and Artemis Skarlatidou When a combined sewer overflow releases sewage into a river, how do people actually … More

climate change, environment, nature, water

Rethinking Crisis through the Humanities – Reflections from Paris

This week we had the opportunity to attend the “Living with Permacrisis: Care, Responsibility, Agency and Art” conference organised by … More

Citizen science, crisis, environment, maps, Technology

Stories from the River Lea: community voices shaping understanding of environmental change 

Environmental crises are often monitored through technical indicators, datasets, and institutional reporting. Yet they are also lived, sensed, and negotiated … More

#dirtywater, community mapping, crisis, environment, London, participatory mapping, pollution, river lea, storm overflow releases

Mapping the barriers and drivers of digital action within Higher Education Institutions [Project HEIDI]

In October and November this year, for our Erasmus+ Heidi project, which UCL coordinates, we carried out a set of … More

“Geographic Citizen Science Design: No one left behind” Book Launch Event

On February 4th 2021, the book “Geographic Citizen Science Design: No one left behind”, edited by Dr Artemis Skarlatidou and Professor … More

Call for Special Issue on “GeoWeb and GeoMobile Applications for Public Engagement Emerging Trends and Novel Approaches”

A new call for a special issue with the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information is out, on the topic of … More

Using a Mental Model Approach to understand and compare expert and lay knowledge surrounding knife crime and trust in policing

How do young people understand and experience trust in the police in the context of knife crime?  How does their … More

Civic Innovation In Community: Safety – Policing and Trust with Young People

Not a day goes by without another tragic incident: Knife crime has become one of the most pressing issues that … More

Life Lessons: Exploring Participatory Design for Environmental Monitoring Citizen Science Projects with Third Age Users (London-experiment 2)

Between April and June of this year, Sanayah Malik (MSc in Digital Anthropology at UCL) and Carol Iglesias (currently completing … More

ECSAnVis, ERC

‘Understanding Interaction Design Challenges in Mobile Extreme Citizen Science’

Extreme Citizen Science Initiatives often face severe challenges as pre-designed technological solutions prove to be non-transferable to peculiar environments of … More

ECSAnVis, ERC

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  • Spilling the Truth: Rethinking River Lea’s Storm Overflow Crisis Maps September 16, 2026
  • Report on the 2nd Citizen Science Africa Conference September 1, 2026
  • Rethinking Crisis through the Humanities – Reflections from Paris May 9, 2026
  • Stories from the River Lea: community voices shaping understanding of environmental change  March 5, 2026
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  • Reflections on Urban Gardening Workshop in London’s Chinatown November 16, 2024
  • A desert as a garden: The International Society of Ethnobiology conference in Marrakech, Morocco July 19, 2024
  • WhatsApp Maps? Connecting users and producers of ground information June 26, 2024

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