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Mapping Feminist Los Angeles with the Feminist Center for Creative Work Los Angeles and Camille Nibungco
For Logic School, Camille Nibungco worked with the Feminist Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles to prototype an online database and map of resources for marginalized groups in LA.
Mapping Feminist Los Angeles is a volunteer working group with the goal of building a spatial and digital network called Angelena Atlas, that recontextualizes Los Angeles neighborhoods through the filter of intersectional feminism online, in print and in person. The project began in 2016 by Leana Scott, Angelena Atlas is a digital manifestation of the group’s objective and an online consolidation of resources for marginalized groups in Los Angeles. The core objectives of this project is to share intersectional feminist resources, services, and events for womxn in Los Angeles County. We also want users to be able to crowdsource information from other grassroots collectives and create an easy to use and open-source interactive visual representation of resources with filters.
Coming onto the project, we were starting from a very outdated master database of available resources for different groups accumulated over the years which was unorganized, incomplete, and missing information and overall needed a lot of data cleaning which ended up taking most of the project timeline but was able to create an interactive MVP prototype. On a personal level, this project demonstrated that data itself is not inherently exploitative or inevitably for-profit. It also illuminated how we can be active participants in defining how our data ought to be collected, disseminated, and used to improve their lives. Overall there is a movement of shifting civic data from being a resource for the few (urban planners/academics) to being an exploratory medium for everyday citizens and we can reclaim our own agency for how to figure out the world through communal/collective data-sharing.
Camille Nibungco (she/they) is a queer Filipino-American UX Designer from Los Angeles.
Check out more of Camille’s work at http://camillenibung.co
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