Come visit the parascope to ‘see behind’ into the sustainability systems in the Västra Hamnen area of Malmö. The installation is accessible today through Monday Dec. 13 [map]. The project was done as part of a artist-residency at MEDEA Collaborative Research Initiative in Sweden. More information here. The parascope itself was developed by a collaboration […]
Arlene Birt presenting at MEDEA in Malmö, Sweden on Dec.10 (15:00-17:00 Central European time). Arlene will present two projects that she’s done as artist-in-residence at MEDEA and a behind-the-scenes view on her work on how to visualize ‘background stories’. One project is a visual mapping of the sustainability-oriented systems at work within the Västra Hamnen […]
Arlene has begun an artist residency at interactive center for new media MEDEA, where she will develop work to visualize the impacts/benefits of bicycling for the Västra Hamnen area of Malmö in order to encourage and celebrate a culture of bicycling. More on the progress of the project, which will run Oct-Dec 2010, is posted […]
TraceProduct.info is a prototype for an in-store, retail-wide system for displaying information on grocery product backgrounds at point-of-sale. Exhibiting Sept. 29-Oct.2 at the Spark Festival.
I, Pencil by Leonard Read, is an essay on the life cycle of a pencil. Written in a way that references all the strings attached and people involved in the back-story of this simple, everyday object; this story is an excellent text to tie products to global social and environmental concerns. And it was written […]
Food retailer Chipotle has an online animated map showing the locality and seasonality of produce used in their menu items. Though buried at the bottom of the page (click ‘integrity’, then scroll down), the graphic is a good educational tool: teaching about seasonality in produce. From the perspective of informational design, it would be great […]
A straw-bale bench and accompanying info-graphic is on exhibit all summer at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. As part of the Powerhouse Plants exhibit showcasing the super-human powers of plants. Entitled ‘Waves of [Multifunctional] Grain,’ this graphic installation shows the life-cycle of grain crops like wheat, barley and rye – and how the waste product from […]
A work-in-progress of the Grocery project is showing at Art-A-Whirl May 14-16. The installation will display a prototype of a system to trace the origins of grocery purchases at the point-of-sale. Preview: In Development: And in-store tracking system that will map a customer’s produce, meat and dairy purchases. An accompanying online portal will allow deeper […]
An Earth Day Campaign by online service yousendit.com calculates the savings of using digital file sharing vs. printing, burning CDs and shipping. Though a bit of a stretch to calculate environmental impacts in this fashion, it’s always good to see dynamically-calculated details on your own impacts (and those of all users of a service).
Arlene Birt will present April 22 at Pecha Kucha night in a joint MCAD/American Swedish Institute event on Earth Day.