Category: Citizen Science, Data Collection & Sensemaking

SUPERPOWER! is an initiative that explores our personal agency and responsibility as a citizen and as an individual in our complex interactions with our cities through our subjective perception using digital tools. Through working with communities in different cities over the years, Ling has developed a set of digital toolkits consisting of gesture-sensing wearables, a mobile app, a web platform, and a data dashboard that enables communities to make sense of self-determined issues through collecting data in their own city using their body gestures. Past projects explored topics surrounding air pollution, public safety, wheelchair accessibility, gender representation, cultural diversity, children’s well-being, and perception of safety during the COVID pandemic.

Digital SUPERPOWER! Matsudo

A natural disaster occurs. You are with your loved ones at the time. Where do you feel safe? A group of residents in Matsudo c

Digital SUPERPOWER! London x Johannesburg x Bulawayo

An initiative that aims to empower women and the LGBTQIA+ community (often most vulnerable in the inner city and Southern Afri

SUPERPOWER! Johannesburg

In SUPERPOWER! Johannesburg, we asked students from the University of Johannesburg to consider their role as both the future g

Digital SUPERPOWER! Romania

Digital SUPERPOWER! Romania is a participatory project that explores how people make sense of their built environment during t

SUPERPOWER! Mombasa

As part of the annual African Crossroads, we invite a group of African womxn (women including transgender women) to take part

SUPERPOWER! Liverpool

SUPERPOWER! Liverpool challenges students with low self esteem to express themselves through performing alternative empowering

SUPERPOWER! Finsbury Park

SUPERPOWER Finsbury Park brings together young women from different walks of life to discuss their relationship with the city.

WearAQ

WearAQ combines people’s subjective perception of their environment with wearable technology and machine learning algori

Fakugesi Social Wearables

Fak’ugesi Social Wearables explores how residents of Johannesburg, South Africa perceive their experience of safety