‘Data stories’ could help address Dublin’s housing crisis

A Maynooth University researcher has been awarded a €2.4 million (US$2.5 million) European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for a project to map out property and planning data in Dublin and bring it to life in new ways using creative and artistic approaches.

It is hoped that the new methodology can contribute to tackling issues such as the city’s affordable housing crisis and could ultimately be applied to sectors beyond property.

The five-year ‘Data Stories: Producing stories about and with property and planning data’ project will document in detail how property data is collected and used by different agencies such as government departments, local authorities, homeless organisati...