Host: Erin McElroy & Anti-Eviction Mapping Project This workshop will focus upon collaborative work of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) to better visualize complex landlord and property ownership networks. McElroy will share more about a recent tool and graph database built by the AEMP called Evictorbook which merges numerous datasets together to provide tenants and […]
Host: William Carroll & Corporate Mapping Project This online, open lecture will cover how to map corporate power using social network analysis. This talk will first review the development of power structure analysis in sociology and related fields, highlighting key advances and advantages that have been realized with the development of this approach in the […]
Host: Parc Ex Anti-Eviction Mapping This bilingual presentation and interactive workshop will guide attendees through working with their own anti-eviction data. From the Parc Ex Anti-Eviction Mapping Website: The Parc-Ex Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a nonhierarchical and autonomous collective aiming to raise awareness about the effects of gentrification in Parc-Extension and other neighborhoods in Montreal. […]
Host: Munira Lokhandwala & LittleSis This training will focus on teaching participants the basics of how and why engaging in "power research" can be a useful methodology for organizers challenging power and working toward justice wherever they are. We’ll share inspiring examples of how “power research” can support long term challenges to corporate power and […]
This roundtable discussion is open to in-person attendees to think, talk and work through the day's mapping workshops. This roundtable is about taking stock, asking questions, and putting stuff to work.
Host: Kevin Walby & Centre for Access to Information and Justice This in-person lecture, Q& A and workshop will provide information on how to use Freedom of Information requests. This paper/presentation draws from the results of research on ATI and FOI in Canada to reflect on ways of making sense of disclosures and turning these […]
Host: Lucy Parsons Lab This interactive workshop will cover inverse surveillance techniques, including leveraging public records and open source intelligence tools. From the Lucy Parsons Lab website: Lucy Parsons Labs is a charitable Chicago-based collaboration between data scientists, transparency activists, artists, & technologists that sheds light on the intersection of digital rights and on-the-streets issues. […]
Host: Patricio Davilla, Philip Zigman & RenovictionsTO This in-person lecture will cover participatory data reporting. RenovictionsTO is a volunteer-run project that asks tenants to anonymously report their landlords to help document eviction-by-renovation practices. In this workshop, participants will learn to develop and use the tools and information they need to share anonymous eviction data on […]
Host: A.J. Withers & ImpacToronto This in-person lecture and interactive workshop will show how to use freedom of information requests to uncover and mobilize state knowledge. Information Mobilization and Public Accountability Collective of Toronto (IMPACT) is a grassroots collective that organically emerged to conduct Freedom of Information (FOI) research about homelessness and strategically make it […]
This roundtable discussion is open to in-person attendees to think, talk and work through the day's lectures and workshops. This roundtable is about taking stock, asking questions, and putting stuff to work.
