DACA Day 2 Keynote by Moritz Stefaner

Moritz Stefaner, keynote

As it seems, we have hit a wall in the visual rhetorics surrounding global warming. What comes after “red” and “very red” in the color scale? How many ice bears can we show on shrinking sheets of ice? How can we move beyond those visuals cliches? Moritz Stefaner investigates how we can make global warming sensually more accessible through data visualization — and thus, hopefully, more graspable. His course Beyond heatmaps at HfK Bremen resulted in climate sonification, data sculptures and ice interfaces. Project Ukko presents a novel visual language for seasonal wind forecasts, used in expert tools as well as ambient data installations. And as the winner of National Geographic Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge with Perpetual Plastic — a 46 ft data sculpture made from beach debris, showing the fate of all plastic ever produced — raised awareness for the huge challenge of ocean pollution in South-East Asia. Finally, with Susanne Jaschko he investigates how food can be a medium for information, in their workshop series Data Cuisine.
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