This pro­ject was about visu­al­ising sci­entific data from a recent urban eco­logy and soci­ology sur­vey. Biod­iver­City is a research pro­ject that involves sci­ent­ists and research­ers from the Uni­ver­sity of Berne, the Research Group for Urban Eco­logy, Wild­life and Com­mu­nic­a­tion in Switzer­land, the Swiss Fed­eral Research Insti­tute WSL among oth­ers. The aim was to dis­play the research res­ults in an inter­est­ing and access­ible way to the cit­izens. Together with Angela Geben­roth (Inter­ac­tion Design, Zurich) I designed 3D install­a­tions that—placed in urban green spaces—raise aware­ness, inform and increase attractiv­ity of biod­iversity in urban spaces.

The doc­u­ment­a­tion shown here was pro­duced as a 52 page per­fect bound book­let and can be viewed online as both PDF file and Flash page flip applic­a­tion. To present the pro­ject to the depart­ment of design at the Zurich Uni­ver­sity of the Arts, we also cre­ated a short video sequence. The whole pro­cess of is also doc­u­mented in this Blog post.

This piece shows six ‘chess pieces’ that rep­res­ent the dif­fer­ent stages in foetal devel­op­ment up to three months gest­a­tion, which is the time span in which most abor­tions in Bri­tain are car­ried out. The brief for this ‘Design & Applied Arts’ pro­ject was to identify vari­ous hier­arch­ies and to visu­al­ise them in a three-dimensional chess set.

I always wanted my own think­ing chair—a place to sit down, relax and think up new great ideas. So I made one! Could there be any shape that bears any more inspir­a­tion, a let­ter­form that car­ries any more cre­at­ive poten­tial than a ques­tion mark? Hardly. So here it is, my final piece in product design—a think­ing chair with type influ­ences.
 
“Lauan” wood and suede fab­ric with mov­able side table and foot rest
 
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