Explore the cases
To summarise and synthesis information on the creative methods these projects use in creating data publics, projects have been shared as cases.
Following a scoping review, 15 projects from Canada and 15 projects from the UK were identified for closer exploration. These projects were selected at the meeting point of creative methods and citizen participation in place-based decision-making.
Each case is an interactive visualisation using the stages and arrows of Sabina Leonelli’s cycle of knowledge production (from the article ‘what distinguishes data from models?’).
Keywords
Artist-in-residence Audio narratives Blog book-sharing Citizen Jury Co-creation Co-design Community walk Craft Dance Data visualization Data workshops Drawing Exhibition Film Film interviews Handbook Installation Interviews Mapping mural Origami Painting Participatory methods Performance art Photography Photography murals Play Poetry Pop-up event pop ups Probes Public art Sculpture Sentiment surveys stories Story Surveys Toolkit Toolkits Video visualisation Visualization Walk / Tour Zines

UK 7 Led by Professor Nick Henry
(Coventry University)
City Change Through Culture: Securing the Place legacy of Coventry City of Culture 2021

UK 10 led by Professor Nicky Marsh (University of Southampton)
Feeling Towns: Place, Identity
and Local Governance

UK 11 Led by Professor Andrew Wilson (University of Bradford)
People, Heritage, and Place:
Using Heritage to Enhance Community and Well-being in Saltaire, Bradford
Project Team
Creating Data Publics for Governance is a collaboration between researchers at Simon Fraser University (Canada) and University of Southampton (UK):
- Dr Frédérik Lesage (Principal Investigator; Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University)
- Professor Dan Ashton (Co-Investigator; Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Southampton)
- Xiaosu Li (Research Assistant, Simon Fraser University)
- Shafira Rezkita Vidyamaharani (Research Assistant, Simon Fraser University)






























