
Map of allies
Post by Alex Gil and Roopika Risam
Torn Apart / Separados, which launched on July 25th, is a set of rapid response data visualizations created by a small team of researchers using data they collected on immigrant detention over a 7-day period. The team behind the project is Manan Ahmed, Maira Alvarez, Sylvia Fernandez, Alex Gil, Merisa Martinez, Moacir de Sa Pereira, Roopika Risam, and Linda Rodriguez.
Torn Apart/Separados homepage and map
Invested in mobilizing new teams of researchers, Gil and Risam held a design sprint and hackathon at the Digital Humanities 2018 conference in Mexico City, thanks to the generous support of HASTAC.
The design sprint brought more than 20 participants together to dig into the data on ICE detention aggregated by Torn Apart / Separados. Team members introduced the project and its ethical imperatives to the designers, then split the group into teams to imagine new directions and projects based on the original team’s work.
The result was a compelling list of short- and long-term project ideas. These included: aggregating immigration laws to track the criminalization of immigrants over time, outreach to activists and lawyers to better understand how the team might help them, developing pedagogical modules to encourage scholars to begin working with data, exploring the boom in job ads associated with immigrant detention, adding a page to the Nimble Tents toolkit on data visualization in a crisis, visualizing local media coverage and gaps on family separation, and identifying the role of military bases in immigration enforcement.
Using the results of the design sprint, Risam and Gil held a hackathon and HASTAC meetup on the last night of the conference. More than 25 participants set to work on rapid prototypes from the design sprint. One team set to work identifying sources demonstrating readiness of military bases for detention, while another created a survey for activists and began mapping the list of allies. A third team began scraping job advertisements, as another drafted a document on mobilizing researchers to respond quickly to a developing crisis. Still another team of intrepid coders began digging into local news sources, working past 1am to put all the wheels in motion to continue the project after the hackathon was over.
The Torn Apart / Separados project is looking forward to sharing the outcomes of the hackathon. For those who are asking how to contribute, we have several ways. You can learn more about them in this call by Sylvia Fernández right here on HASTAC. We are grateful to all of the México participants, who came out on a Friday night, after a rich and intense conference to join us in our efforts.
Explore Torn Apart/Separados and read Emily Dreyfuss’ coverage in Wired.
México Design Sprint
Elizabeth Grumbach
Jacqueline Wermimont
Isis Campos
Annette Zapata
Gabriela Baeza
Carolina Villarroel
Lorena Gauthereau
Purdom Lindblad
Brandon Locke
Alex Galarza
Rachel Hendery
Isis Campos
Sylvia Fernández
Annette Zapata
Vika Zafrin
Roopika Risam
Alex Gil
Hannah Alper-Abrams
México Hackathon
Rachel Hendery
Kristen Mapes
Emily Esten
Megan Senseney
Patrick Juola
Christina Bell
Danica Savonick
Angelika Strohmayer
Brandon Locke
Kathi inman Berens
Christina Boyles
Andrew Petersen
Erin Glass
Greg Palermo
Isis Campos
Annette Zapata
Zachariah Stern
Brian Rosemblum
Lisa Tagliaferri
Jodi Mikesell
Alex Galarza
Hannah Alper-Abrams
Vika Zafrin
Vinicius Marquet
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We apologize if this list is incomplete or overcomplete. If you were here and did not make it to the roster, or if for any reason you would like to remain anonymous, please send us a line to tornapartseparados@gmail.com.
Tweet from Alex Gil (@elotroalex) with map of allies
Pedagogy toolkit module group
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