Project Type
Data Visualisation
Lithuanian Design Association / ICoD
Data Portraits & National Identity – public input as raw data
Public input translated into three tangible data portraits about Lithuanian identity.
During the International Council of Design's international design week, I worked as designer-in-residence at the Museum of Applied Arts & Design in Vilnius, Lithuania. The question: how do you turn intangible public input – emotions, associations, and context around national identity – into usable, visible data?
From public input to tangible data portraits.
Together with three Lithuanian junior designers, I developed an interactive method in which museum visitors and people on the streets of Vilnius contributed live data. We translated the patterns in the data into a visual system of geometric shapes and grids, inspired by Baltic craft traditions and urban patterns. The result: three tangible data portraits that show how information design can be an active research tool.
