hometown 4.6.8+hometown-1.3.0Hello 👋 I do stuff like data visualisation, digital cultures, complexity, collaboration, biodiversity, more than human worlds, designing our way out of this mess… Professor of Design, ANU. http://mtchl.net
New work out! Mosaic uses images, sound, video and data to build a portrait of a western NSW wetland.
It's an experiment in environmental data-storytelling and using #conservationtech for public engagement. With waterbirds galore, feral critters and livestock, it's also an attempt to show the complexity of our "patchy" landscapes.
Made for Flow-MER and the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office:
TIL George Shiras invented the camera trap in the 1890s, using tripwires, remote shutter releases and a magnesium flash. Astounding shots from around Whitefish Lake, a Michigan wetland, all documented in his book: https://archive.org/details/HuntingWildLifeWithCameraAndFlashlight.Volume121935Copy/
New paper! "The Sound of Water: sensing a wetland intervention through interactive environmental audio" just out in cultural geographies: reflecting on making an audiovisual environmental data-story.
A joy to work with collaborators Skye Wassens and Adrian Mackenzie on this. This article will be part of a "Digital Ecologies" special issue coming soon 👀
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14744740231197813
#ecoacoustics #dataviz #scrollytelling #morethanhuman #wetlands
Re-upping Zach Lieberman's new Atlas of Blobs (via @golan@mstdn.social). Worth your time: https://atlasofblobs.cc/
It's totally delightful to see Zach's ultra "retinal" work narrated, because he's mostly quite reticent.
For me the most exciting thing about generative systems is their ability to create and visualise *other* worlds: things, relations, ways of being. These texts show this exactly - the poetry of blob worlds reveals and opens up (blobby) ways of feeling and being.
Cobeo uses design methods, new conceptual frameworks, workshop settings and reflective practice to support #collaboration.
A project led by my friend and colleague Maya Haviland, after years of development it’s starting to go public. Working on this with Maya and Sejul Malde has been a rewarding collab in itself.
