How your food is heating more than just your plate
A tangible data visualization comparing national income disparity within countries.
Objective: To understand and explore tangibility of data visualisation with the aid of physical space and materials.
Year: 2024
Duration: 2 weeks
Nature: Academic
Limitations: All data explorations were bounded by data encircling the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
I did this project as a part of a Tangible Data Visualization course offered as a part of my post-graduate program. The primary goal was to explore data visualization beyond the traditional scope of paper and screen. Challenging at first, it slowly taught me to look at sensory and spatial dimensions of data critically along with it's ability to be seen.
How can data be felt ?
Can you hold data?
Can data be inhabited?
This meant engaging with materiality, context, physical interaction and a generous amount of trial and error!
ideation
Wading through possibilities
When I believed that the data was more or less ready to be visualized, I went straight into ideating. The ideating phase involved- looking at inspiration, working with available resources, understanding limitations of time and a lot of back and forth feedback.
Although ideal, there was very little scope for prototyping due to the kind of timeline I was working with.
View the data Story here (View this on a desktop):
Explore the making of this narrative here :
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