Prescriptive data publics
This formation of data publics is achieved through datafication processes often prescribed by governmental agencies and/or third sectors that construct publics in and out of digital data flows.
Limited active civic engagements of individuals are involved in the data collection, production, and representation.
CAN 4 by STEPS Public Art
Inspired Art Impact: A Toolkit for Mainstreet Cultural Tourism
CAN 10 Calgary Municipal
Land Corporation
Werklund Centre Transformation (WTC)
CAN 8 by Calgary Municipal
Land Corporation
Touch Traces project from Jack & Jean Leslie RiverWalk Murals
CAN 11 Calgary Municipal
Land Corporation
Olympic Plaza Transformation (OPT)
CAN 12 Calgary Municipal
Land Corporation
Tomorrow’s Chinatown: Chinatown Cultural Plan
CAN 13 Led by Dr. Tara Mahoney
Creative Publics
UK 7 Led by Professor Nick Henry
(Coventry University)
City Change Through Culture: Securing the Place legacy of Coventry City of Culture 2021
UK 9 by Design Innovation and Land Assets (DI&L) Network
Design Innovation and Cultural Resonances (Resonance): Place-based Collaboration
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
Local data publics
This formation of data publics is grounded in the local and is often initiated by local residents, community groups, property and business owners, BIA/BIDs, etc., for the purpose of improving their shared place.
This community-led approach welcomes and invites local individuals to see themselves as civic public actors engaged in shaping local place-making.
CAN 1 by STEPS Public Art
STEPS Public art strategy plan for Downtown Stratford, Ontario, Canada
CAN 2 by STEPS Public Art
I HeART Main Street
CAN 4 by STEPS Public Art
Inspired Art Impact: A Toolkit for Mainstreet Cultural Tourism
CAN 5 by ReDefine Arts
The Countdown Public Art Project
CAN 6 by Greater Victoria
Placemaking Network
CAN 9 by Calgary Municipal
Land Corporation
Bridge project from Jack & Jean Leslie RiverWalk Murals
CAN 14 by Deer Crossing The Art Farm
Copper Circle project
CAN 15 by Calgary Arts Development
Northeast Mini Galleries Program: Building Community Pride Through Public Art
UK 1 by Creative Peninsula
The Saltmarsh Project
UK 2 by Whitworth Art Gallery
Age Friendly Programme
UK 4 by Nottingham Contemporary
First Waves
UK 5 by Nottingham Contemporary
Narrow Marsh Residents Group
UK 6 by Measuring Humanity
Art is Everywhere
UK 13
by Citizens in Power
UK 14 by Primary
Build Create Play – Contemporary Visual Arts Network England
UK 15
by Homebaked Community Land Trust
UK 16 by GREENGAGE
East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood
Pilot Project
Participatory data publics
This formation of data publics is often led by third-sector/publicly-funded organizations and it welcomes individuals and/or community groups to participate in their data publics programs.
Participants are involved in some degree of the data collection, production, and representation processes of data publics configuration.
CAN 1 by STEPS Public Art
STEPS Public art strategy plan for Downtown Stratford, Ontario, Canada
CAN 2 by STEPS Public Art
I HeART Main Street
CAN 3 by STEPS Public Art
and ReDefine Arts
Accessible Art and Placemaking
CAN 5 by ReDefine Arts
The Countdown Public Art Project
CAN 13 Led by Dr. Tara Mahoney
Creative Publics
UK 3 by Castlefield Gallery
The Ageing in Place Micro-residency Project
UK 7 Led by Professor Nick Henry
(Coventry University)
City Change Through Culture: Securing the Place legacy of Coventry City of Culture 2021
UK 8 by The Glass-House
Community Led Design
Cross-pollination: Growing Cross-sector Design Collaboration in Placemaking
UK 10 led by Professor Nicky Marsh (University of Southampton)
Feeling Towns: Place, Identity
and Local Governance
Counter-data publics
This formation of data publics is reactionary and serves the purpose of enabling disadvantaged and underrepresented communities to reclaim political power in configuring their own data publics.
It emphasizes the strategic use of data to benefit the political and social emancipation of communities in counter to data misrepresentation and extractive data publics.
CAN 3 by STEPS Public Art
and ReDefine Arts
Accessible Art and Placemaking
CAN 7
by Walk With Me
CAN 14 by Deer Crossing The Art Farm
Copper Circle project
UK 5 by Nottingham Contemporary
Narrow Marsh Residents Group
UK 7 Led by Professor Nick Henry
(Coventry University)
City Change Through Culture: Securing the Place legacy of Coventry City of Culture 2021
UK 8 by The Glass-House
Community Led Design
Cross-pollination: Growing Cross-sector Design Collaboration in Placemaking
UK 9 by Design Innovation and Land Assets (DI&L) Network
Design Innovation and Cultural Resonances (Resonance): Place-based Collaboration
UK 10 led by Professor Nicky Marsh (University of Southampton)
Feeling Towns: Place, Identity
and Local Governance
UK 12 Led by Dr. Elizabeth Craig-Atkins (University of Sheffield)
Roots and Futures: Scaling Up and Sustaining Co-produced, Place-based Heritage with Underserved Communities
UK 14 by Primary
Build Create Play – Contemporary Visual Arts Network England
UK 16 by GREENGAGE
East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood
Pilot Project
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)
