Welcome to Chemical Atlas

Chemical Atlas is a multimedia platform that explores ways of mapping the sprawling, complex, and ongoing reverberations of chemical pollution. This is not a comprehensive atlas, but a digital prototype, bringing together methodological resources and storytelling to better understand and communicate uneven chemical relations. Mapping pollution is more than plotting data on a map. It's about making sense of harm across spatiotemporal scales through multiple ways of knowing: scientific, social, legal, and artistic.

This project invites contributors from all fields to co-create a more-than-human view of environmental degradation and modes of resistance by thinking with and beyond chemicals. In collaboration with Andrew Barry and Martin Olwenn, Lucy facilitated a co-design workshop on June 6, 2025, to exchange ideas among our community of practice. The workshop inspired the design and development of a prototype, which is now hosted open source on GitHub Pages. This project was generously unded by UCL Grand Challenges Small Grants.