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Annelie Berner


Projects

    1. Plant Futures

    2. Diverse Futures

    3. Clouds above, clouds below

    4. Futurescaping Climate

    5. Ethics Fingerprint

    6. Escaping the Strange Loop

    7. Crossing Disciplines

    8. Future Erasure

    9. The Ethical Stack

    10. AiryLight

    11. Visualising Research

    12. The Synapse

    13. Radials

    14. Life Centred

    15. Cupcakes Index


Courses

    1. Interactive Data Visualisation

    2. Designing Ethical Futures

    3. Poetic Data

    4. Eccentric Interfaces, Environmental Interventions


Talks & Workshops

    1. Index Space

    2. ITU

    3. RISE Research Institute

    4. NYU IMA Low-Res

    5. New School

    6. Hyper Island

    7. TED X CPH


Annelie Berner —

Annelie Berner is an interaction designer specialised in data visualisation.
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Diverse Futures


How do we visualise the many dreams and perspectives people have about the futures? As part of an upcoming exhibition by the LAB at Rockwell Group, the Smithsonian and Institute for the Future, I designed a series of data visualisations to bring together the answers that visitors leave as they move through collections of 150 ideas, objects, and technological innovations. 

The questions ask visitors to give their input on hope and power with regards to topics that range from climate change to world peace. Visitors also leave their opinions about time travel, AI doctors and free education, among many more. 

Image from exhibition opening - a visitor giving input to one of the many interaction beacons installed throughout the show - “Start shaping the future you want for yourself, your community and the world”

Image from exhibition opening
Image from exhibition opening - another interaction beacon - “How much power do you have to make the world more peaceful?”

However, when I joined the project, the exhibition had not yet launched (the above images are post launch). Thus I did not yet have the mass of visitor data we expected to collect over time. Yet through discussions with the question creators (IFTF) and surveys shared internally, I identified themes and possible patterns that might occur once the exhibition launched and the data was gathered. I came up with these themes and the concepts that would support them.





I handed over my prototype code of one of the data visualisations (Diverse Futures) and fullly fleshed out legends and sample datasets for the other visualisations. These were then implemented by the LAB once the exhibition was up and running, as shown below:




Exhibition link: Futures

Role: Designer, prototyper.
Technologies: d3.js

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