Understanding Risk Field Labs

The 2019 and 2024 Understanding Risk Field Labs are one-month long arts and technology un-conferences that explore critical design practices in disaster and climate risk management, using collaborative methods to produce new datasets, tools and technologies, conduct research, create art and craft new approaches to storytelling.

CROSSING DISCIPLINES

Artists, engineers, geographers, hydrologists, hackers, practitioners and mappers learnt about each other’s methods and tools to develop deeper collaborations.

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OUTPUT ORIENTED 

Make something, document what you did, and share your work. Participants developed new flood models, exhibited art projects, mapped information flows, and so much more.

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GLOCAL PARTICIPATION

Bringing skilled and passionate collaborators everywhere from Chiang Mai to Mexico into a single space and enable meaningful participation.

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FLUID TIMEFRAME

come when you want, stay as long as you need — the field lab’s timetable is defined by its participants, who self-initiate their projects and deadlines.

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