In the last few weeks we have done four workshops at Happisburgh primary school, Ellingham primary school, Hopton primary school and Thurlton primary school which have all gone brilliantly. In January we’ll be doing workshops with Ludham Primary, Rockland St Mary primary, Kinsale Junior School, Coltishall primary, and Ormesby Junior School. Finally, in February we’ll [...]
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The Butterfly Effect Introductory Workshops
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Comparing Apples To Oranges
After two years of ‘life documenting’ it’s clear Lauren Manning is meticulous about collecting data on her food consumption. As part of a larger daily data project Lauren noted down every meal she ate for a year. She then used that data set to make over forty different visualisations using a “variety of methods, techniques, styles, [...]
The Black Cloud Citizen Scientist League
Thanks to a tip off from @hugh_knowles of Forum For The Future we’ve been looking at the intriguingly named Black Cloud Citizen Scientist League, which examines pollution through collecting a variety of data. We’ve learned from the Citizen Sensing blog that the project is headed by Berkeley Art Studio Professor Greg Niemeyer. He has designed a small box called [...]
Invisible Dust Project – Double Pendulum
More news on creative air quality projects today. We mentioned the Invisible Dust series yesterday in our post on Helen Storey’s Catalytic Clothing. Here’s a bit more info on what it’s all about. The project, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Arts Council England, includes a number of public art installations aiming to highlight [...]
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Catalytic Clothing Improves Air Quality
While working on our London Air Quality project we’re excited to see fashion is also getting involved in finding solutions. In an amazing piece of high tech innovation, Helen Storey and Tony Ryan have brought science and art together to explore how clothing and textiles can be used to purify air as we walk. The [...]
Chromaroma – London Underground Visualisation Game
We’re excited to have found the Chromaroma project, a game that makes travelling in London engagingly colourful. Released by digital production company Mudlark, it tracks journey data from Oyster cards on the London Underground. Every time people use their oyster cards, data is recorded by TFL. When you tap in and out at stations your [...]
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Data Design at Goldsmiths BA Design Show 2011
Among my graduating year group was a great breath and variety of work across disciplines. Of the fellow projects from the show here are some innovative examples of representing information in interesting ways. Rosann Ling – “Ink Stained Verses”: Rosann Ling‘s project “Ink-stained Verses” used chromotography to express time in an alternative measurement (see film). Inspired by [...]
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Nike+ Chips Highlight Urban Running Routes
Being fans of the Nike Grid project in London it was great to see, last week, Nike’s running chips creating another fantastic visualisation on the other side of the pond. Graphic designer Nicholas Felton (yes he of the Feltron Report) enlisted 14 of his students at Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts to analyse the metadata collected [...]
What Does London’s Tube Map Really Look Like?
We came across this interesting article in the Daily Mail (unlikely, I know!) comparing the perceived journey distances using the tube map compared to what the real map looks like and what the actual distances are. According to research by Zhan Guo, a professor of urban planning and transportation policy at New York University, up [...]