January 2017
Rejoice, it's January, it's 2017!
While January is usually means dark, cold winter nights and the never-ending, ever-threatening exams, we at ETHOS Lab also find reasons to rejoice as a new semester starts, expectations are in the air and new beginnings are forming.
Projects from both Junior researchers and the Datasprint 'Representing Data through History' are continuously being revealed on our website and [drumroll..] ETHOS lab will soon be recruiting junior researchers and therefore we made a Q/A:
What can students use the ETHOS Lab for?
Just to mention a few..... Idea generation from experimental inquiry, research and tinkering with data visualizations and qualitative research tools. Being part of a community with students, alumni and research faculty. Get support and supervision from faculty and assist in generating ideas, projects and problematisations. For example, tie your student research work into existing research topics and projects. Find relevant empirical partners or sites/events for participatory observation and get hands on experience within the setting of collaborative, interdisciplinary experimentation through data sprints. The Lab may not serve everything on a silver platter, as it is very much up to the student to create their own interests and make them grow but we all learn in the collaborative process.
Read more about the mission.
Who is the ETHOS team?
The ETHOS daily team consists of Lab Manager Marie Blønd, Assistant Cæcilie Laursen and also Rasmus Rosendahl in charge of Communication. Behind the scenes, research faculty are managing, collaborating, influencing and supporting the Lab's research, datasprints and experiments. Primarily, what 'makes the lab', are the amazing Junior Researchers and curious, active and engaged community affiliated with the Lab. Many of the ideas for workshops, datasprints and talks are initiated and sometimes performed by these people.
Read about getting involved.
When can I come by?
Our opening hours are from Tuesday - Thursday from 12.30-16:00 and you are also welcome to drop us an email on ethos@itu.dk
What is the kind of data that you scrape and tinker with it?
We tinker will ALL kinds of data - also the participatory ethnographic ones.
On Twitter, we announced the interesting article by the Computer magazine Version 2 on the journey of ETHOS Lab community member Jesper Henrichsen who scraped Denmark's Financial Budget 2017 to make a better visualisation. The scraping was mistaken as a DDoS [hacker] attack by the Danish Agency for Modernisation and his IP-adresses blocked.
This is is a great example of the experimental approach you may take within the lab or how we may use these experiences as ethnographic stories begging relevant questions.
See you at 'What kind of Futures do we want to live in' on Thursday!
Best wishes,
ETHOS Lab