🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 “Reframing data activism: Towards a broader understanding of datafied social movements” by @juliettedavret.bsky.social, @danihynes.bsky.social, S. Mutter, and J. Somers Donnely. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #dataactivism #datafiedsociety #socialmovements

📢 New post on the Data Stories blog: Read about my recent presentation at the RC21 Conference in Vienna. I presented my work, co-authored with Rob Kitchin, during a session on Digital Frontiers organised by Ayona Datta and Justus Uitermark. See: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=976

Data Stories team have a new book chapter out on "The nature and development of a planning data ecosystem" in the new Research Handbook on Digital Data, edited by Aaltonen, Stelmaszak and Lyytinen. Read more on our blog: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=932

New post on Data Stories - Find out about Carla's visit to Zurich for a workshop on tech in planning followed by her presentation of our Unreal Homes project at BeNeLux Geography 2026: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=920

📢 Appel à communications | "Géonumérisation du Monde : infrastructures, pratiques et enjeux politiques" 🗓️ 6-8 octobre 2026 à la Maison des Sciences Humaines de Bordeaux. Plus d'information et modalités de communications : www.mshbx.fr/2026/02/27/g...

🗺 New paper out in Geoforum! Thrilled to share our latest research: "Unpacking map authority in marine spatial planning: a stakeholder perspective on map making and map use in ocean governance", co-authored with Matthieu Noucher and Brice Trouillet. 📄 Full paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

The digital turn in planning and the production of ‘good enough’ planning systems by Carla Kayanan, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Sam Mutter & @robkitchin.bsky.social, now published in issue 34(4) of European Planning Studies. Access PDF at www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2CZIS...

The digital turn in planning and the production of ‘good enough’ planning systems

The digitalization of planning has taken place in a context where planning work is on-going and cannot be halted, and in which there are embedded institutional and technical systems and practices, ...

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CFPs inbound! Data Stories are announcing calls for participation in two separate sessions on policy making and arts-based methods at University College Cork for CIG 2026 (6th – 8th May). Check posts below and our blog for full details: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?page_id=33

CALL FOR PAPERS (2/2) - Conference of Irish Geographers. Session: Arts-based and experimental methods in geographical investigation See details: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=902

CALL FOR PAPERS (1/2) - Conference of Irish Geographers. Session: Geographers in the policy arena: Building bridges between academia and evidence-based policymaking See details: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=900

Read our project's latest blog post by Juliette on participation in 'Boundaries & boundary concepts in/as datafication' organised by Yana Boeva, Louis Ravn and Sarah Davies at the University of Amsterdam: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=896

🗓️ Last month I attended the "Boundaries & Boundary Concepts in/as Datafication" workshop at the University of Amsterdam, organised by Yana Boeva, Louis Ravn and Sarah Davies. I just published a blog post about it. Read the full post here: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=896

📢Read our new paper "The temporal organisation and practices of planning work: The temporalities of digital infrastructure, the digital infrastructuring of temporality" co-authored with @robkitchin.bsky.social, Carla Kayanan and Samuel Mutter. www.francoangeli.it/riviste/arti...

New housing and planning resource for Ireland – a publications hub. >1,800 academic, policy and sector publications relating to housing, property and planning in Ireland. Access at www.zotero.org/groups/55867... if there are pubs missing you want us to add, please send them to us and we will do so

📃 Through an Irish case study, our paper argues that planning digitalisation inevitably produces "good enough" rather than optimal systems due to institutional path dependencies and data frictions. If you want to know more, see our paper in European Planning Studies Link: doi.org/10.1080/0965...

The digital turn in planning and the production of ‘good enough’ planning systems

The digitalization of planning has taken place in a context where planning work is on-going and cannot be halted, and in which there are embedded institutional and technical systems and practices, ...

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📖 Happy to see "Grounding Digitalization" published (online and open access) with a chapter written by Danielle Hynes, @robkitchin.bsky.social and myself: 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀: 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴. Link: www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index...

📢 Read my latest article on "The Politics of Counting Homelessness: The Case of Ireland" published in Housing Policy Debate, which reveals how Ireland counts its homeless population, a good reminder that numbers are never neutral, but always political: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BVBSY...

The Politics of Counting Homelessness: The Case of Ireland

Homelessness remains a critical social issue in Ireland, yet its true scale is systematically obscured by definitional limitations, methodological inconsistencies, and political interference in dat...

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Data Stories were busy during Maynooth Research Week. Check out our involvement in Maynooth Sparks 2025, and our workshop session 'Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland’s property market by spoofing property websites': datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=834

We have just published a blog post about our latest workshop on data and urban planning:

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Read our latest blogpost on workshops engaging Collaborative Urban Planning with Data by @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Helen Shaw and Carla Maria Kayanan. Also features real-time illustration by Eimear McNally: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=826

Data Stories recently held a two-day workshop on #ResearchCreation and the application of arts-based methods. The talks and workshops covered a wide range of approaches. Check out our summary and all of our participants' slides on the Data Stories blog: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=768

New report: ‘The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues’ New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets) mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20... Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO

New paper - 'Urban digital twins: Digital twins for participatory steering' with @robkitchin.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... The paper appears in the latest special issue of New Media & Society on 'Digital Twinning': journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8

New from Data Stories - Carla and I recently visited Oxford Brookes to participate in the Tiny House Games workshop with Mel Nowiki and our collaborators Ella Harris and Hannah Mumby. Check out the post and video for more on #ResearchCreation with games: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?page_id=33

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New paper (OA): Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla Kayanan and Sam Mutter in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Read about my recent paper presentation of 'Data mobilities: rethinking movement and circulation of digital data' on behalf of our team at SAGEO conference in France: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=734

Latest from Data Stories: Read about Danielle and Sam's recent presentations on ‘Creative Methodologies’ with artists and ‘Critical Geographies of Housing’ on eviction data for CIG2025 at Queens University, Belfast: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=727

Read our latest blog update by Sam Mutter about the recent Community Action Archives Event in Dublin, hosted by Tom O’Dea with the Liberties Community Development Project and CATU: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=723

New paper. Genealogy of a data ecosystem: The digitalisation of planning development and control in Ireland, 2000–2024 by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla Kayanan & Sam Mutter in Digital Geography and Society, www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Genealogy of a data ecosystem: The digitalisation of planning development and control in Ireland, 2000–2024

In this paper, we document how a data ecosystem emerges and evolves as a socio-technical assemblage over a 25 year period charting its digitalisation …

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Curious about how planning systems are moving from paper to digital? Our new article charts 25 years of digital transformation in the Irish planning ecosystem, revealing how visioning, scaffolding and politics shape technology adoption. See: doi.org/10.1016/j.di...

Stakeholder participation is key to effective #Marine #Spatial #Planning (MSP) decisions. Various #data/information tools can aid MSP processes. Davret & Trouillet studied how #stakeholders use #maps & found they “take a critical approach to maps” @juliettedavret.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.en...