PARTNER
NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics
Made in NY Media Center by IFP
Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University
Carto
Enigma
SUMMARY
Data Through Design is an annual alternative cartography and art exhibition held during New York City’s Open Data Week, an endeavor of the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics. The objective of the exhibit is to enable technologists and designers to create novel methods of map-making, present new narrative perspectives, and develop a deeper understanding of life in the city using data as medium. Each year has a unique theme either around a subject matter or a particular data set, and we commission 8 – 10 related installations. The works can be digital but we encourage physical works of art. The inaugural exhibition took place in March 2018 at the Made in NY Media Center. After a public call, we commissioned eight artists to create original physical maps and data installations, each asking a question of the city to be explored through data. The opening event drew over 300 attendees from a wide range of sectors including art, architecture, public sector, and technology. The works addressed issues such as: what consequences do our choices about zoning have for the people traveling our streets? Or, what do NYC civil servants do? Collectively, these works revealed insights from a cumulative whole and revealed the stories can emerge from data.
The exhibit received coverage from multiple press outlets including Metro, StateScoop, and Data Driven Journalism. See DataThroughDesign.com for press links. Adrienne Schmoeker of NYC MODA told StateScoop that, “This data belongs to New Yorkers and we want it to be back in their hands and we want them to know it’s here for them to use, to build off of but there’s no way they’re going to find out about it if we don’t tell them.”
PROJECT TEAM
Mathura Govindarajan
Jill Hubley
So Yeon Jeong
Ye Eun Jeong
David Lockard
Jeremy Neiman
Seungmin Ellen Oh
James Proctor (Pitch Interactive)
Juan Francisco Saldarriaga
Steven Sanchez
Wenfei Xu (Carto)
Michelle Ho (Carto)
Jeff Ferzoco (Carto)
Stuart Lynn (Carto)
Eve Ahearn (Enigma)
Jessie Braden (SAVI)
Adrienne Schmoeker (NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics)
Photography by Sam Hyatt Photography
YEAR
2018
FUNDING SOURCES
Made in NY Media Center by IFP
Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University
Carto
Pratt Institute SAVI Lab
Enigma
