This action is inspired from the book Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. Keywords: Data Exhaust, Behavioral Surplus, Behavioral Conditioning After visualizing and annotating the consent forms Pinterest and WhatsApp in an attempt to provide users an agency to understand their data and how it is used, I realized that consent forms are no good to …

This action is based on the paper Visualizing text-based data: Identifying the potential of visual knowledge production through design practice, by Dr Jacqueline Kasunic & Dr Kate Sweetapple. Keywords: Visualization, Digital Humanities, Design Research, Design Methods, Visual Epistemology Abstract: As increase in the availability of digitized data coupled with the development of digital tools has …

For this action, I wanted to visualize data that was complex. I wanted to explore how can something complex be presented in an engaging fashion. While reading an article on data visualization, I got the idea of visualizing the value of ‘Pi (22/7)’. I chose the value since it is a non-repeating irrational number. The …

From the last action, the data visualization I did, brought out a certain pattern in my location history. So for this action I wanted to explore if these patterns can help make data inviting and engaging. For this action I did two different visualizations; the percentage of males and females in my cohort and distance …

Since the last action, my research took a new direction. After meeting with my supervisor, I started following Giorgia Lupi’s work on Data Visualization. I wanted to explore it and see where it could take my research. I have already been reading a lot about data and ethics, but never really figured out how to …

Since I got to Vancouver, I have been using the Google Maps a lot. It is the best and the easiest way to find my way around this new city. Although, I have started to recognize the streets, bus routes  and a few buildings, I am still not comfortable going out without looking up the …

Not the perfect title for the first blog of the Spring Semester, but that is what my life has been for the last few weeks. I got out of quarantine on the 10th of February and it has been a roller coaster ride since then. I have been running around the city just to get …

The semester of Fall 2020 started with a lot of excitement but with a little bit of disappointment. I was excited to be finally starting my master’s but at the same time, was bummed to start it online due to the pandemic. There was a lot of uncertainty, but I had no choice other than …

For the final blog before the end of this semester, I want to reflect on all my actions I have done so far. Through Action 1, I got to know a new culture. Talking to Iris for a week I learnt how our cultures are very similar in some aspects and though very different in …

This action started while I was reading a book on Type Exercises and came across a very interesting section about Form and Counter form of alphabets. Right after reading that, I just wanted to try to play with the negative spaces of the letterform myself. To do so, I first made an illustrator file with …