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Papers by Giles Lane

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

This paper presents a new methodological approach, TrustScapes, an open access tool designed to i... more This paper presents a new methodological approach, TrustScapes, an open access tool designed to identify and visualise stakeholders’ concerns and policy recommendations on data protection, algorithmic bias, and online safety for a fairer and more trustworthy online world. We first describe how the tool was co-created with young people and other stakeholders through a series of workshops. We then present two sets of TrustScapes focus groups to illustrate how the tool can be used, and the data analysed. The paper then provides the methodological insights, including the strengths of the TrustScapes and the lessons for future research using TrustScapes. A key strength of this method is that it allows people to visualise their ideas and thoughts on the worksheet, using the keywords and sketches provided. The flexibility in the mode of delivery is another strength of the TrustScapes method. The TrustScapes focus groups can be conducted in a relatively short time (1.5–2 hours), either in p...

ACM eBooks, 2017

is paper explores the challenges around fair information access when the limits of human a ention... more is paper explores the challenges around fair information access when the limits of human a ention require algorithmic assistance for ' nding the diamond in the coal mountain'. While o en demanded by users, the seemingly intuitive concept of fairness has proven to be very di cult to operationalise for implementation in algorithms. Here we present two pilot studies aimed at ge ing a better understanding of the conceptualisation of algorithmic fairness by users. e rst was a multi-stakeholder focus-group discussion, the second a user experiment/questionnaire. Based on our data we arrive at a picture of fairness that is highly dependent on context and informedness of users, and possibly inherently misleading due to the implied projecting of human intentions onto an algorithmic process.

Leonardo, 2021

The authors discuss a series of artworks produced since 2009, including The Southern Ocean Studie... more The authors discuss a series of artworks produced since 2009, including The Southern Ocean Studies (2012), The Northern Polar Studies (2014) and Carbon Topographies (2020). Through this work they explore how climate models can be employed to develop data-driven imaginaries of climate change, its impacts and causes. They argue for the experiential potential of this information for producing differently situated ways of knowing climate, framing this through a methodological approach described as “data manifestation.”

Journal of Visual Art Practice

AI4DM is a practical and pragmatic suite of critical thinking tools ... more AI4DM is a practical and pragmatic suite of critical thinking tools enabling cross-organisational stakeholders to implement transdisciplinary ethical and governance assessments of planned or existing AI and automated decision-making systems. It naturally fosters participation, bringing people together to map AI systems, existing and proposed, against the organisation's own mission, vision, values and ethics. It uses a whole systems approach to analyse organisational structures and operations, illuminating to participants the breadth of issues beyond their individual responsibilities. The tools are intuitive, practical and can be used for: revealing where and how a system is either in alignment, and where it is (or could be) misaligned with the organisation's mission, vision, values a...

A bookleteer.com booklet : Hiding in Plain Sight is an essay that traces the... more A bookleteer.com booklet : Hiding in Plain Sight is an essay that traces the various strands of research, projects and activities led by Giles Lane over a 15 or so year period. These strands fed into the development of the transdisciplinary research group, Manifest Data Lab, which he co-founded with Professor Tom Corby at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2019 and to the 3 year AHRC-funded project, "Materialising Data, Embodying Climate Change Change". Browse the online version: https://bookleteer.com/book.html?id=3474#page/1/mode/2up Download the PDF: https://bookleteer.com/publication.html?id=3474

A text exploring physical manifestations of digital data in the Lifestreams project by Proboscis.... more A text exploring physical manifestations of digital data in the Lifestreams project by Proboscis. Published in Blowup: New Materials, New Methods, edited by Michelle Kasprzak (V2_, Rotterdam 2014).

A report for the UK Ministry of Justice. Social Tapestries: Conversations and Connectio... more A report for the UK Ministry of Justice. Social Tapestries: Conversations and Connections was a project led by Proboscis and Local Level with residents of the Havelock Estate in Southall, West London (2005-07).

Final updated report (version 2) of the Urban Tapestries project (2003-04). Urban Tapestries expl... more Final updated report (version 2) of the Urban Tapestries project (2003-04). Urban Tapestries explores the convergence of mobile technologies with geographic information systems from the point of view of people going about their everyday lives. Proboscis identified this as a crucial area to develop as a majority of research projects focused on tourists as the main user group and replicated nineteenth and twentieth century print and broadcast communications methods. Urban Tapestries builds upon the distributed nature of twenty first century network communications. [First version June 2005]

A bookleteer.com booklet describing the author's approach to 'People Centred Practices&#3... more A bookleteer.com booklet describing the author's approach to 'People Centred Practices': a set of principles, tools and frameworks for designing and implementing projects from a people-centred perspective. It looks at practical methods for engaging people, and considers not just humans, but peoples as including other living beings and ecosystems (i.e. all life). Read Online Version : https://bookleteer.com/book.html?id=3454#page/1/mode/2up Download PDFs for printing : https://bookleteer.com/publication.html?id=3454

A bookleteer.com booklet containing two essays: The Data Sublime – explores ... more A bookleteer.com booklet containing two essays: The Data Sublime – explores artistic practices and the category of the sublime as methods for working with 'Big Data' that draw on alternative knowledges and world views than those based solely on science. A Poetics of Data – an essay exploring how we might work with data as a poetic material and explore its qualities, not just its quantities. Browse the online version : https://bookleteer.com/book.html?id=3472#page/1/mode/2up Download the PDF: https://bookleteer.com/publication.html?id=3472

A bookleteer.com booklet containing a proposal for an artwork that recasts privacy and the role o... more A bookleteer.com booklet containing a proposal for an artwork that recasts privacy and the role of individual or personal data. Originally commissioned by the Open Data Institute for the Data as Culture research theme, "Copy That? Surplus Data in an Age of Repetitive Duplication". Browse the online version: https://bookleteer.com/book.html?id=3473#page/1/mode/2up Download the PDF: https://bookleteer.com/publication.html?id=3473

Text developed from a talk given at the Banff Centre, Canada in 2002

This is a co-creative and participatory toolkit of relevance to researchers, civil society and in... more This is a co-creative and participatory toolkit of relevance to researchers, civil society and institutions working with newcomers, migrants, refugees and those supporting them (citizen actors and organisations). The City of Refuge Toolkit aims to explore the needs these actors have: such as the resources they need, and the obstacles they face when they try to build inclusive, safe and equitable local and national communities and spaces. The toolkit brings people together to discuss and share their experiences, to build connections and find common ground. It asks participants to identify what an ideal City of Refuge would need to be a reality (the 'ideal' city of refuge could be adopted from neighbourhood-level to national level). The toolkit contains: Individual Tasksheets Group/collaborative Worksheets A Workshop Facilitation guide for working with refugees/newcomers A Workshop Facilitation guide for working wi...

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

ACM eBooks, 2017

Leonardo, 2021

Journal of Visual Art Practice

Text developed from a talk given at the Banff Centre, Canada in 2002