2022 Teachers Summit

Critical second steps to an experiment involve analyzing data and displaying this information as a means of reporting outcomes. Historically, designers have created elaborate information systems for storing information, which in turn required time intensive procedures for sifting and addressing each point of data. Contemporarily, systems like GIS and algorithmic methods have allowed designers to step into a new frontier of visualizing and examining large quantities of data to draw conclusions. This panel will showcase three designers who are using data gathering and visualization digital techniques such as social media photography analysis, and Geographic information systems towards addressing geo-political and infrastructural climate oriented problems.

The first step of action in a design experiment might include gathering data and information. Historically data gathering has been conducted as an empirical process of deriving knowledge from sensorial recorded observations. Such observations might have been either taken from visual examinations of the natural world or within a model environment constructed by the designer. Contemporarily, digital technology has opened up several new avenues for obtaining information. This panel will present design researchers who are engaging in new technologies of information gathering, and data retrieval utilizing the benefit of live digital sensors. These presentations will showcase how these methods result in new opportunities for climate sensitivity and environmental response, and will discuss the implications of sensor technology within our cities.

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