A Living Atlas: Community-sourced Design for Citizen Science Public Forum + Workshop

Image of a bridge over a bay with sailboats. A Living Atlas: Community-sourced Design for Citizen Science, Open to the public.

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Cruess Hall, Rooms 1103 + 1105 | 375 California Avenue | Davis, CA 95616

Hosted by: the Design Makerspace at the UC Davis Department of Design 

Presentation Panel: Rm 1003, 2:30 -3:30 pm 

PlanktoScope Demo + Workshop: Rm 1105, 3:30-5:30 pm 

  • Join us for presentations and a workshop. 
  • Bring your own freshwater samples to examine and view on the big screen  
  • Learn how to build and use a PlanktoScope (open-hardware microscope)  
  • Try out sustainable materials from the UC Davis Eco-Material Library. 

The SeaShift Collaborative is an interdisciplinary team designing for where architecture, product design, material science, marine biology, and microbiology meet. SeaShift set out to design a floating research device to aid citizens and scientists in studying microplastics in the Bay. This device, the Living Data Pod, placed at urban shorelines accessible to schools and the public, puts the collection of water quality data in the hands of citizens. In conjunction with the team for PlanktoScope, a project by Plankton Planet and the Prakash Lab at Stanford University, designers and scientists meet to discuss opportunities for open-source design and environmental stewardship through citizen science. This collaborative project is a resident at the San Francisco Autodesk Technology Center 

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