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The book provides a snapshot of practices used by contemporary designers, researchers, and artists who create objects, spaces, and experiences imbued with data. They draw from a range of domains and traditions, and represent a fascinating, inspiring, and revealing cross-section of contemporary maker and data culture.
List of contents
1. Handcraft - Introduction by Sheelagh Carpendale and Lora Oehlberg. 1.1 Snow Water Equivalent by Adrien Segal. 1.2 Life in Clay by Alice Thudt. 1.3 V-Pleat Data Origami by Sarah Hayes. 1.4 Anthropocene Footprints by Mieka West. 1.5 Endings by Loren Madsen. 2. Participation - Introduction by Georgia Panagiotidou and Andrew Vande Moere. 2.1 Cairn by Pauline Gourlet and Thierry Dassé. 2.2 SeeBoat by Laura Perovich. 2.3 Let’s Play with Data by Jose Duarte and EasyDataViz. 2.4 100% [City] by Rimini Protokoll (Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel). 2.5 Data Strings by Daniel Pearson, Pau Garcia, and Alexandra de Requesens. 3. Digital Production - Introduction by Yvonne Jansen. 3.1 Chemo Singing Bowl by Stephen Barrass. 3.2 Wage Islands by Ekene Ijeoma. 3.3 Data That Feels Gravity by Volker Schweisfurth. 3.4 Orbacles by MINN_LAB Design Collective (Daniel F. Keefe, Ross Altheimer, Andrea J. Johnson, Mahdieh Mahmoudi, Patrick Moe, Maura Rockcastle, Marc Swackhamer, and Aaron Wittkamper). 3.5 Dataseeds by Nick Dulake and Ian Gwilt. 4 Actuation - Introduction by Pierre Dragicevic. 4.1 Tenison Road Charts by David Sweeney, Alex Taylor, and Siân Lindley. 4.2 LOOP by Kim Sauvé and Steven Houben. 4.3 AirFIELD by Nik Hafermaas, Dan Goods, and Jamie Barlow. 4.4 EMERGE by Jason Alexander, Faisal Taher, John Hardy, and John Vidler. 4.5 Zooids by Mathieu Le Goc, Charles Perin, Sean Follmer, Jean-Daniel Fekete, and Pierre Dragicevic. 5. Environment - Introduction by Dietmar Offenhuber. 5.1 Perpetual Plastic by Liina Klauss, Moritz Stefaner and Skye Morét. 5.2 Dataponics: Human-Vegetal Play by Robert Cercós. 5.3 Solar Totems by Charles Sowers. 5.4 Staubmarke (Dustmark) by Dietmar Offenhuber.
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Samuel Huron, Till Nagel, Lora Oehlberg, Wesley Willett
Summary
The book provides a snapshot of practices used by contemporary designers, researchers, and artists who create objects, spaces, and experiences imbued with data. They draw from a range of domains and traditions, and represent a fascinating, inspiring, and revealing cross-section of contemporary maker and data culture.
