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Making with Data
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The AirFIELD is a dynamic sculpture synced to real-time flight data reflecting the heartbeat of the world’s busiest air travel hub, the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. View Project
Understanding Future Change through three Orbacles.
Orbacles makes scientific data tangible via a site-specific triad of sculptures that connect visitors to the reality of climate change through the story of changing Minnesota bird populations given current and future predicted climate scenarios. View Project
Snow Water Equivalent Cabinet is a data sculpture illustrating snowpack measurements.
Snow Water Equivalent Cabinet is a data sculpture illustrating snowpack measurements recorded at Ebbetts Pass in the Sierra Nevadas of California, from 1980 - 2010. View Project
Tangible apparatus exploring experiential alternatives to traditional surveys
Cairn is a tangible apparatus that explores experiential alternatives to questionnaires and other traditional survey techniques, and enables data collection, visualization, and analysis within a community of practice in a French FabLab View Project
How can we give data physical form? And how might those creations change the ways we experience data and the stories it can tell?
Making with Data: Physical Design and Craft in a Data-Driven World provides a snapshot of the diverse practices contemporary creators are using to produce objects, spaces, and experiences imbued with data. Across 25+ beautifully-illustrated chapters, international artists, designers, and scientists each explain the process of creating a specific data-driven piece—illustrating their practice with candid sketches, photos, and design artifacts from their own studios. Featuring influential voices in computer science, data science, graphic design, art, craft, and architecture, Making with Data is accessible and inspiring for enthusiasts and experts alike.
Making with Data, edited by Samuel Huron, Till Nagel, Lora Oehlberg, Wesley Willett, has been released in the AK Peters Visualization Series at CRC Press / Routledge.
Huron, S., Nagel, T., Oehlberg, L., Willett, W., editors. Making with Data: Physical Design and Craft in a Data-Driven World. First edition, AK Peters: CRC Press, 2023
ISBN 9781032182223 (Paperback), ISBN 9781032207223 (Hardback)