This PECE essay contains a collection of photo essays that represent the digitial component of Visualizing Toxic Subjects. Visualizing Toxic subjects a year-long collaborative design project hosted by the Center for Ethnography as part of its 2018-2019 annual program, Visualization in Ethnography.
In this photo essay, I explore how different kind of civic data infrastructure support efforts to improve environmental public health and governance. Civic data infrastructure, in my reading, is infrastructure that enables collaborative effort to advance the public good. As an anthropologist, I’m interested in how people design, access, use and think about the value of such infrastructure, especially in effort to address problems that resist representation and public recognition.
