January 28, 2023
Week 13
A busy week of deconstructing SVGs, relief printing, planning our final major project, gathering context about challenges women entrepreneurs face, studying the visceral qualities of a leaf, and going on a data dérive.
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In an introductory session to D3, we focused on drawing and understanding SVGs.
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We did a quick exercise to get started on our final major project proposal, which I've been looking forward to since applying to the program.
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We had a briefing session as part of a collaborative project with UN Women to understand the challenges women face in entrepreneurship. I am excited about working on this brief alongside my creative peers. Peter Levin’s Successful Teamwork has been a great starting point to understand the ethos of teamwork and collaboration in an academic setting. As a group, we visualised the skills that each of us possessed by using Lego blocks as an analogy for indicating strength in combination.
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Finally, the Data Visceralisation session I have been eagerly waiting for. As an experiment, our team depicted the temperature levels in the UK as a soundscape using audio samples from leaves. We studied the leaf with our senses and explored how it could possibly embody our data in non-visual ways.
We arrived at a sonic vocabulary by touching and feeling the leaves and recording through sound attributes like soft, rough, dry, fresh, etc. I wonder how this could be extended to understand drought levels globally.
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In the spirit of dérive, we went on a data walk to study sounds in our neighbourhood. The goal was to keep an open mind and record our observations of the various sources of sounds we captured.
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More on this next week!