What is it about?
Data physicalisation is seen as way to increase engagement with complex issues and topics such as climate change and environmental data. In this paper, we report on a Research-through-Design (RtD) project that tries to design and evaluate a data physicalisation for supporting collective sense-making of the climate impact of food. Throughout the design process, we explore the materiality of CO2 emissions and ways to design with less resource use.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that collective sense-making can be enabled through interactive data physicalizations and that this can lead to carbon literacy. We expand on a) sustainability through design by arguing for the value of artifacts that let people stay in the interaction as this can support collective sense-making and b) sustainability in design by showcasing the value of designing with an interaction-first and materials-second mindset.
Perspectives
This article is intended to provide a new perspective on interacting with environmental data such as carbon emissions. We hope that by physicalising such data, it can lead to increased engagement and better relatability to such concepts, and by engaging with such installations in group settings, it can lead to collective sense making about such issues.
Arjun Rajendran Menon
Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan
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This page is a summary of: Carbon Scales: Collective Sense-making of Carbon Emissions from Food Production through Physical Data Representation, July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3563657.3596043.
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