Adam Pantkowski has been involved in the open-source electricity map project as a junior researcher. Among other things, he contributed by putting his own country of origin, Poland, on the map. Read on about his experiences of being part of the electricity map...
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A tale from a data sprint series
Written by Göde Both, who visited ITU Copenhagen and University of Copenhagen from August until November 2016. Rather than working with historical data, he usually engages in ethnographic research on the realities of self-driving car research. He is a member of...
Minna Jensen – Electricity Map
Minna has done a project about the optimisation of data visualisations. Using questionnaires and interviews with a variety of different interest holders, laymen and experts, her research sheds some light on some different views on data visualisation. Below, you...
Viktor Hargitai: LoL-app
Viktor has been working with the the subject of privacy in learning apps of Danish primary schools. In the following writings, Viktor reflects on the challenges of running a research project, where stakeholders interests and would-be simple practicalities are...
Expecting Everything
Written by Jan Redzisz. Jan has a background in applied cultural analysis, and has been a visiting researcher at ETHOS Lab. Here, he worked on speculative games for engaging future users of robots and artificial intelligence. As part of his visit Jan has written a...
Interview with Rachel Douglas-Jones
Rachel Douglas-Jones is one of the three Heads of Lab in ETHOS Lab, and a member of the ETHOS Lab research group. We asked Rachel some questions about her research and about her visions and hopes for the ETHOS Lab. Here is what she replied: 1:...
Data Power? What The Foucault!
Data is power. What does this mean? The following scribbles will be an attempt to shed some light on this question. Now, to do this, we will need to introduce a little bit of French culture, but not in the form of croissants or red wine. Instead, we will be using the...
Good luck…
....your feed is now controlled by a capitalistic, populistic dictatorial algorithm! “All I will ever see in my newsfeed are puppies and food". Get a peek into this and other narratives through which users depict the perceived negative influence of algorithms in their...
Pictures from “Representing History Through Data” Part 1
The first part of the datasprint in collaboration with HUMLab and The Royal Danish Library as viewed through a camera lens.
ETHOS Summer Lab Retrospective
Written by Michael Hockenhull, ETHOS Lab manager. As the almost indian summer of the last couple of weeks transitions into proper cool danish fall, it seems fitting to think back on the summer that passed in ETHOS Lab. Normally the ITU, and by extension the lab, falls...