Final Project, The Plant Project

Summary The Plant Project is an experimental, community-reliant collection and visualization of municipal water quality using mung bean sprouts. Across several neighborhoods and cities, volunteers germinate and  record the growth rate of mung beans in a controlled environment. They submit time lapses

R3 – Empathy in VR

Empathy and VR Summary: In “Conceptualising and Measuring Empathy,” Gerdes describes the disparate research methods and results of empathy. There are empirical methods and “social cognitive neuroscience” methods, ie observing the way people act and measuring ‘mirror neurons’ amongst other

R2 Reading Response

Conveniently, each reading itself exemplified that which it described. Chater and Loewenstein’s The Under-Appreciated Drive for Sense-making described how “Curiosity may, of course, be unsatisfied if we are unable to perform the relevant action …, in which case we would expect the

R1- Response to Readings

Contemporary Data and Storytelling A common distinction made in our readings was between the possible outcomes of our increased access to data. According to Schmidt and Slaney, all of this information is either going to be humanity’s savior or ruin. The

“On Journalism #2 Typewriter” by Julian Koschwitz

Literally taking on the notion of data being translated into a story, “On Journalism #2 Typewriter” writes the stories of those who died writing stories for us. The piece honors deceased journalists by writing what they never could’ve written for themselves. Using

The Gangster Gardener of South Central: Ron Finley

In Los Angeles, South Central is infamous for gang violence and poverty. Though no longer as dangerous as its reputation, South Central is still impoverished in terms of access to recreational parks and healthy foods. mediad.publicbroadcasting.net – via Iframely Because of