This episode of Data Remediations features the voices of residents of South Philadelphia, long home to what was, until it blew up last year, the world’s longest continuously operating petroleum refinery. Residents talk about life with the refin

Environmental Justice in Gray's Ferry

Apr 27th, 2020

Midnight Oil: Futures Beyond Refining

Mar 27th, 2020

This episode of Data Remediations features a special interview with Philadelphia-based documentary filmmaker, Bilal Motley. For nearly 15 years, Bilal worked in management at the Philadelphia refinery. He offers us a glimpse into the everyda

Missing a Script on Altering Shores

Feb 20th, 2020

In Episode 7, Bethany Wiggin, Katie Collier, and Piotr Wojcik speak with Nathaniel Popkin to talk about their participation in the live performance of a data storytelling and climate sensing art work, a hybrid virtual reality and live performan

Episode 06: Recovery and Climate Research in Houston

Nov 16th, 2019

In Episode 6, Bethany Wiggin and Meg Arenberg discusses the ways that academics and activists in Houston, a “city entwined with petroleum,” address environmental and climate (in)justices. First, Dominic Boyer considers the emergency of Houston

Episode 05: What's Your Climate Story?

Sep 26th, 2019

What’s your climate story? In Episode 5, hosts Patricia Kim and Bethany Wiggin discuss the kinds of stories we need to compel climate action and introduce Data Refuge’s new climate storytelling campaign. Since late 2016, Data Refuge has deeply

The Lifecycle of Data

May 10th, 2019

What’s the lifecycle of data?In this episode, hosts Patricia Kim and Bethany Wiggin explore the liveliness of government data—its lifecycle from birth through its death, or afterlives. Listen to librarians and government data experts Jefferso

Ground-truthing in Philly (part 2)

Apr 17th, 2019 21m 18s

In part 2 of episode 3, host Patricia Kim and student intern Grace Boroughs talk to Philly-based scientist Peter DeCarlo and artist Roderick Coover about the ways that they address issues of data poverty and patchiness by ground-truthing. Altho

Ground-truthing in Philly (part 1)

Apr 2nd, 2019 20m 28s

In this two-part third episode, we learn about “ground truthing” in the city of brotherly and sisterly love, Philadelphia. In Part 1, we talk to scholar Candis Callison, artist Roderick Coover, and Sustainability Director Christine Knapp about

Data Poverty and Data Love

Feb 27th, 2019 13m 19s

In this episode, hosts Patricia Kim and Bethany Wiggin talk to Daniel Castro, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Christine Knapp about concepts like “data poverty,” and what cities are doing to gather emissions data—and how we can improve. Also, we welc

Welcome to Data Remediations

Dec 14th, 2018 19m 4s

In this episode, hosts Patricia Kim and Bethany Wiggin introduce Data Remediations, a podcast connecting data with people and places through stories and art. Interviews with Eric Holthaus, Michael Halpern, Denice Ross, Margaret Janz, and the En

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