Room 138, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths
Tuesday 10th July 2018, 2-4PM
How might citizen-generated data contribute to rethinking the fundamental assumption in official statistics that residence, home and work are aligned in a single state? This is the question of an ongoing experiment being conducted by ARITHMUS at the Department of Sociology on the category of ‘usual residents’, an international standard for defining a population base. We are inviting colleagues from CISP and other departments and centres to help us think through this question by drawing on our experiences as internationally mobile academics.
The informal workshop is part of the design of a citizen data app that can contribute to reimagining this international standard by experimenting with digital technologies to account for the multiplicity of lived experiences and ‘modes of living’.… Continue reading