Everyone keeps talking about climate protection, but noone gets going. Even though our energy consumption is known to be a little over budget (with 11t per capita and year, 2008), it does influence our day to day decisions in prominent ways. The climate, and even more its slow and gradual change, is just too abstract [...]
Tag Archives: information design
Visual Voltage Workshop
Power Aware Cord by Interactive Institute Together with Interactive Institute Sweden, IxDS will start the new year with a design challenge: how can we make energy consumption more experienceable, and thereby motivating people towards a change in behaviour? We will host the Visual Voltage Workshop from 22 – 23 January 2010 as part of the [...]
Framework for Eco Viz revised
Last week Reto Wettach, design director at IxDS, submitted an application for a research grand. The topic of the proposed research project is “Experience the Energy – Visualizing Energy Consumption to support a Change of Behaviour”. In this application we outlined a new model for info viz of energy consumption, based on the wonderful paper [...]
Pre-Work Talks: Living with Energy Harvests
The event season is getting up to speed again, and IxDS members are actively participating. Myriel Milicevic and Hans Kadel are reporting from Art+Communication 09 in Riga, Latvia, where they exhibited their Energy Harvests project. Brendan Howell organized the “Innovation through Design” panel at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, an annual event to bring [...]