A one-month long arts and technology un-conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand exploring critical design practices in disaster risk management, collaborative technology production, hacking and art. The event took place between June 2-28, 2019. The event design, outputs and participants are documented here.
CROSSING DISCIPLINES
Artists, engineers, geographers, hydrologists, hackers, practitioners and mappers learnt about each other’s methods and tools to develop deeper collaborations.
Read moreOUTPUT 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.
Explore moreGLOCAL PARTICIPATION
Bringing skilled and passionate collaborators everywhere from Chiang Mai to Mexico into a single space and enable meaningful participation.
Explore moreFLUID 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.
Read moreWhat is the field lab?
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Project Themes
Each week has several guiding themes. Attendees, however, are also encouraged to propose new themes, bring their own projects or, support the work of other participants.
Featured Outputs
Living with Water in Chiang Mai
A Medium blogpost that discusses experiences in risk communications. The blog post served also as an entry to the #vizRisk challenge, organized by UR with Mapbox and the Data Visualization Society.
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SEADRIF User Experience Sprint
A user-design approach was used to create a website prototype for the SEADRIF platform. The platform aims to inform users of real-time flood risks of participating countries.
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Living with Water Art & Science Exhibition Write Up
During June 24-28, the Chiang Mai Urban Flooding Field Lab held a collaborative arts workshop on the theme “Living with Water.” This write up describes the process and outputs of the workshop
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Field Lab Zine: Deconstructed Field Lab
A zine is an independently published magazine that aims to disseminate information widely through inexpensive and effective means. A group of participants came together to create a Field Lab Zine that captures the fun moments of the un-conference
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Persona Cards for Nature-based Solutions
Persona cards designed to help users understand the complexities of urban flooding have been created during the workshop. These personas were based of people, animals, and environments of Chiang Mai.
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What is the Field Lab?
In this video participants explain the intent behind the event, their motivation for attending and some of the projects they worked on over the course of the month. Watch this video to learn more about the event and its sponsors.
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