chemicalatlas

Chemical Atlas is an interdisciplinary multimedia platform mapping chemical pollution through data, maps, ethnography, and media. It brings together scientists, artists, and citizens to explore environmental harm across scales—combining cartography, storytelling, and collaborative insight.

https://github.com/lucyrose93/chemicalatlas

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Chemical Atlas is an interdisciplinary multimedia platform mapping chemical pollution through data, maps, ethnography, and media. It brings together scientists, artists, and citizens to explore environmental harm across scales—combining cartography, storytelling, and collaborative insight.

Basic Info
  • Host: GitHub
  • Owner: lucyrose93
  • Language: JavaScript
  • Default Branch: main
  • Homepage:
  • Size: 242 MB
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  • Stars: 1
  • Watchers: 0
  • Forks: 0
  • Open Issues: 11
  • Releases: 0
Created about 1 year ago · Last pushed 11 months ago
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README.md

Chemical Atlas

Chemical Atlas is an interdisciplinary multimedia platform that begins to map (or explore ways of mapping) the sprawling, complex, and ongoing reverberations of chemical pollution. This is not a comprehensive atlaspollutants operate across too many spatio-temporal scales. Instead, this project focuses on cross-disciplinary collaboration, methodological resources, and storytelling to better understand and communicate uneven chemical relations.

Available here: https://lucyrose93.github.io/chemicalatlas/

Project Goals

  • Create an interactive, online platform that maps chemical pollution
  • Integrate insights from:
    • Ethnography
    • Natural sciences
    • Visual arts
    • Citizen science
    • etc.
  • Go beyond 'conventional' cartography to include:
    • Air quality and extraction maps
    • Ethnographic narratives
    • Audio-visual documentation
    • and more!

Why It Matters

Mapping pollution is more than plotting data on a map. It's about making sense of harm across spatiotemporal scales through multiple ways of knowingscientific, social, legal, and artistic. This project invites contributors from all fields to co-create a richer, more-than-human view of environmental degradation and modes of resistance.

Community of Practice

The project is in its early stages. We held a workshop on June 6, 2025, at UCL with researchers and journalists to gather ideas from our community of practice. Based on this input, we are currently creating a proof of concept. As the project gains momentum, we welcome expressions of interest from any discipline:

  • Filmmaker or artist
  • Natural scientist
  • Social scientist
  • Community organizer or citizen scientist
  • Other interested party

Contact: Andrew Barry, Olwenn Martin, Lucy Sabin

Repository Structure

bash /workshop/ # powerpoints, notes, resources June 6

License

This project is licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Licence. Attribution is required and other restrictions apply. Last updated: June 9, 2025.

Owner

  • Name: Lucy Sabin
  • Login: lucyrose93
  • Kind: user
  • Location: Brighton and London
  • Company: Self-Employed

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GitHub Events

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  • Issues event: 20
  • Watch event: 1
  • Issue comment event: 4
  • Member event: 1
  • Push event: 49
  • Public event: 1
Last Year
  • Issues event: 20
  • Watch event: 1
  • Issue comment event: 4
  • Member event: 1
  • Push event: 49
  • Public event: 1