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Student Name Surname Exercise #2: Case Studies in Data Analysis (5 Ways to Make a Story out of Numbers). Real-Time Cities: an Introduction to Urban Cybernetics Harvard Design School: SCI 0646900 Spring 2014. Urban Civic Innovation. 1 | burble. 2 | thingful. 3 | Facebook. 4 | Marling.
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Student Name Surname Exercise #2: Case Studies in Data Analysis (5 Ways to Make a Story out of Numbers) Real-Time Cities: an Introduction to Urban Cybernetics Harvard Design School: SCI 0646900 Spring 2014
Urban Civic Innovation 1 | burble 2 | thingful 3 | Facebook 4 | Marling 5 | BBVA ATM Transactions
1 | burble In Open Burble, members of the public come together to compose, assemble and control an immense rippling inflatable form that changes colour in response to the crowd interacting below. This massive structure, the form of which the public has themselves designed, exists at such a large scale that it is able to compete visually in an urban context with the skyscrapers that surround it. http://umbrellium.co.uk/portfolio/burble/
1 | burble As well as designing Burble’s structure, participants also collectively fly it, generating colourful forms and patterns through a combination of the crowd’s movement/desires and the impact of the environment on the three-dimensional shape of the Burble. http://umbrellium.co.uk/portfolio/burble/
2 | thingful Making your “things” available to third parties. The Public Internet of Things, providing a geographical index of where things are, who owns them, and how and why they are used. http://umbrellium.co.uk/portfolio/thingful/
2 | thingful Greater London with several connected things spanning across categories. http://umbrellium.co.uk/portfolio/thingful/
3 | Facebook In 2012, Facebook visualized connections among its 500 million users, creating an incomplete but still impressive world map.
4 | Marling Marling is a mass-participation interactive urban spectacle, sited in a public square in Eindhoven, Netherlands, brought to life by the voices of the public. http://www.haque.co.uk/marling.php
4 | Marling http://www.haque.co.uk/marling.php
5 | BBVA ATM Transactions Examines the purchasing patterns in Spain around Easter time. http://senseable.mit.edu/bbva/