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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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Future Erasure



What is the future of heritage when there is no universal canon to distinguish what is worth remembering and preserving from what is not? This is the pressing question that guided our creation of Future Erasure, a futurescaping workshop we made at CIID Research (DK) together with partners at the Media, Culture, Heritage at the University of Newcastle (UK).

The workshop is built to engage museum leaders in the possible future scenario where there is no longer enough space nor ability to store all of the heritage objects. 



Based on research about current trends, indicators and technologies, we imagined a future where museums are so overwhelmed by the amount of items that should count as heritage; they can no longer keep their full collections and must delete 20% of it every year. To figure out what to delete and how this challenge would affect the museum experience of this future, we invited a group of heritage experts from different museums to form the “Deletion Bureau. The experts came from European museums, thus the activities focused around issues regarding European heritage and personalised the materials around the scenario and the problems their institutions face.

We used speculative design and design fiction methods to create content and materials for this future, such as newspapers, films and a series of physical and digital prototypes to immerse our participants in this future scenario.



The experience centered on three major tasks in order to stimulate debate and push our participants to articulate their values and visions for the futures of their institutions' heritage: creating an algorithm for deletion, prototyping devices for experiencing deleted objects, and envisioning systems for the public to interact with deleted heritage. 

An interface to delete the museum archive based on values Participants worked on a matrix to capture their ideas of valuable heritage A future museum where humans carry heritage within them The chips to carry heritage and a portable viewer to see the contents of the chip We brought a machine to compress participants' heritage objects into their constituent values

One concept pictured above envisions a future museum where "every human's obliged to carry condensed info of 5 objects of their choice. With your device you can re-experience your objects or retrieve objects from other people. To enhance your objects, use the central museum enhancer and share object data with other visitors."

The members of the Deletion Bureau ended with provocative discussions of where they want their institutions to go, what prevents them from arriving there in the present, and how they will take steps to get there in the near future.

Date: 2018
Details: Project link

Role: Principal Investigator
Technologies: d3.js

Collaborators: Monika Seyfried, Calle Nordenskjöld, Peter Kuhberg
Partners: University of Newcastle & Research Center for Material Culture

Awards: Recognised for Strategy & Research and Design Education Initiative in Core77 Design Awards 2018
Shortlisted for Disrupting in IXDA 2019

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