Challenge 01.

Traditionally we used to think in future times. Calendars, schedules, and notebooks allow us to plan seconds, hours, and days. The act to turn pages giveS us a feeling of release, things are done, but data remains. We hide the past days as they are worth nothing but the reality is that remembering our days gives as a context a base to build above and a source of reflection. This device allows us to see our data, translate it into an image, and to better understand the flows of our behaviour. We turned upside down the traditional way of visualizing our time to bring the opportunity to be in the context. During this week, I have made both the physical prototype with parametric design and the simple mechanism to extract the fabric. I have made some details that I am very happy with since they are specific details such as the tabs that join the plotter with the base. This challenge has helped me to frame my interests and skills to focus on my final master's thesis as well as the skills to communicate with my group.

Prototyping

It was great to work with people that at first glance we didn’t find so many common points but at the end emerged some ideas in which I didn’t think in that way. Grow data and the analog visualization of them interested I had but with Aparna and Paula, we started the idea of wearables and alive data as a way to see the capture of data along the days.

You can find more information about the project here: Data growing