The Patch Mosaic

Daniel Selden

Patches is a collaboration platform that facilitates public participation in scientific research.

The recent availability of open source hardware and web technologies—specifically tools for data collection and analysis— has created space for new models of collaboration and governance around scientific research. These new practices challenge historical distinctions between credentialed scientists and amateur experts (“citizen scientists”), and increase the tension between these practitioners’ expectations and the groups they represent. Partnerships that manage to succeed in this environment often do so by building their own platforms for knowledge transfer and access to technological tools. Unfortunately, these platforms are usually siloed, fragment the community at large and make it difficult to assess scientific outcomes relative to other projects.

Patches is an online hub for credentialed and non-credentialed researchers, makers, hackers and scientists interested in contributing to environmental science projects . This communal space and its tools facilitates partnership creation, project coordination and discovery within the expanding world of citizen-based science.

Patches
Patches
Governance
Governance
Governance Partnership
Governance Partnership
People Page
People Page
Partnership Page
Partnership Page
Doc Page
Doc Page
Search Page
Search Page
Patches
Patches
Governance
Governance
Governance Partnership
Governance Partnership
People Page
People Page
Partnership Page
Partnership Page
Doc Page
Doc Page
Search Page
Search Page
 

About

Daniel Selden

Design junky and creative technologist, Daniel Selden explores how emerging technologies and new forms of collaboration can impact the design of our urban environments. He is specifically interested in how open hardware and the Internet of Things are changing the way we engage each other and our surroundings. Daniel is currently pursuing an MFA in Design and Technology at Parsons, the New School for Design. Outside of school, he freelances as a web designer and is the Co-Founder and CTO of Loop Attachment Co., a product accessory company based out of Chicago.

Faculty

Thesis Studio

  • Katherine Moriwaki
  • David Carroll

Writing and Research

  • Louisa Campbell
  • Chris Prentice