visualising energy use - using data sculpture
Photo credit: Adam Peacock I've recently become more and more interested in physical objects that encode information - sometimes call "data sculptures". I had the chance to be involved in the creation of one recently. I was working as a "facilitator" for a two week collaborative project at University of Exeter called Grand Challenges involving undergraduate students from a range of courses. My group were looking at "leading to a well world, and specifically enquiring into the question "how much is enough?". I set them the task of helping to write an infographics brief for 2nd year graphic design students at Falmouth - so that both teams of students could get experience of working in a designer / client relationship. The idea was to produce "infographics" that could be used to explain data on energy use around the world at two events - a presentation and an exhibition. The Falmouth students had just 3 days to come up with ideas,