o Data o Design o Environmental science o
Communication o Empowerement o Awareness Key to my values and work ethic, I believe that our environmental crisis is made too complex and inacessible.
Clear, evidential and engaging approaches through design and technological advances are a solution to bring forward narratives to act.
INDEX -> P001 -> The Carbon Box Design Project & Research Thesis Aalto University [FI]
The carbon box is a dual project
-1- Exploratory project developed during a Minor program: Information Design
-2- A research through design tool for a Masters thesis
The Project
How can environmental data be represented in a physical space?
How can tangible interaction enrich the comprehension and experience of complex data such as carbon emissions?
Objective:
Design a tool that encodes carbon emissions data (historical, predictive, and target-oriented) using physicality.
Result:
The Carbon Box invites users to explore emission trends by physically manipulating wooden figures that encode different countries’ emissions over time, comparing them with Paris Agreement targets via an intuitive, puzzle-like interaction system.
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The Research
“Physicalising data has strong potential to increase emotional engagement, accesibility and memorability of data” - Jansen, 2015 .
Objective:
Result:
The research thesis explores how potential opportunities to amplplify the experience of data can be used in a context of climate science where engagement seems to be at a standstill, information is deemed too complex and emotional responses tend to be daunting. To answer this question, 24 participants were invited to interact and make sense of the Carbon Box.