Today was the official opening of “Terre Natale” for the Cartier Foundation in Paris, a project to which I devoted the past two months. The architecture agency Diller Scofidio + Renfro was asked to realize philosopher Paul Virilio’s perspective on changing conditions around the world.
The exhibition is a series of data visualizations that weave together a story about population increase, climate change, natural disasters, refugees, and remittances and there affects on global communities. I was brought on to design and program the scenario about natural disasters and had the opportunity to work with three other amazing designer/programmers: Stewart Smith, Aaron Myers, and Bobby Pietrusko. The video was projected on a wall that circumscribes the gallery, surrounding the viewer with and immersive visual and audio experience. All visuals were created using Processing on the Eclipse platform.
The scenario on natural disasters compares the magnitude and frequency of different types of disasters with the population affected by them. Through this, we see that disasters in the “global south” have a greater affect than those in the “global north” or “rich north”. In trying to understand this concept, I created an application that parses a database of disaster data (year, magnitude, location, displacement) and allows you to compare these sets of data at various scales. I hope to post this application shortly, but for now check out the images:
Tags: animation, Cartier Foundation, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, installation, Paris, processing.org, visualizing data