2009 9.Dec.09 Arlene Birt named Artist in Residence at MEDEA in Malmö, Sweden for Fall 2010. 22.Dec.09 Arlene Birt selected for the 2010 Art(ists) on the Verge fellowship for a project on Visualizing Grocery Impacts. 22.Oct.09 short presentation for Packaging Sustainability: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Package Design launch party at MCAD. 07.Oct.09 "Water […]
Arlene Birt is artist in residence at MEDEA Malmö in Fall 2010, where she will collaboratively develop an interactive information design project to help people experience their social and environmental footprints: by making the ‘stories’ of these impacts visible and interactive – in the context of the city of Malmö.
Carbon foot-printing has made its way onto the plates of people living in Sweden. These ‘climate labels’ list kg of CO2 per kg of product: which results in a decimal like .3498 or .7612. The problem with this approach is that it provides no frame of reference for the consumers to understand…
Arlene Birt is selected for the 2010 Art(ists) On the Verge fellowship program for a project on Visualizing Grocery Impacts
Pranav Mistry combines standard, everyday gestures with digital information. His solutions -which include the SixthSense wearable computer – have potential to bring real transparency into sustainability, and enable people to literally immerse themselves in their own ecological footprints.
Twin Cities Metro Transit now links carbon footprint data with bus schedules when you plan a trip online. The website averages bus CO2 emissions over the distance of your journey to show the visitor what positive impact they can contribute (in terms of carbon saved) for each public-transit journey made. This is a great tool […]
This nifty flash tool from the University of Utah’s Genetic’s lab lets viewers zoom into an image to experience the size of increasingly small cells relative to each other. Such an interactive and immersive experience helps people understand more about the world around them – the very, very small world. A useful application based on […]
Colombia Sportswear is asking you to ‘Consider the box’ with their project: A Box Life. A Box Life brings awareness to an often-overlooked part of mail-order products’ life-cycles: the packaging. Not only is it a clever way to encourage people to reuse packing materials, but telling the stories behind the travels of things also acts […]
Short presentation for Packaging Sustainability: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Package Design launch party at MCAD.
Sourcemap, developed by an MIT-based team, uses Google Earth to map the origins of materials in products. A view inside the open-source application also showcases each ingredient’s carbon footprint – which I hope is an indication that it is only a matter of time until tools like this will expand to highlight other Life-Cycle Analysis […]