Framing our research by selecting 16 climate change comunication projects and mapping them according to their Context and Message.
A week overview of the quantitative data from the diary study, for each day is displayed which activities have been performed.
An exploration of 5 different ways to represent personal environmental behavior.
The 3 design elements of Ecorbis: a smartphone application, physical data sculpture, and printed receipt.
Impression of the smartphone application and the printed receipt.Overview
- Conference: DIS 2022
- Type: Pictorial
- Goal: Explore how a shared data sculpture on the climate impact of day-to-day activities could create environmental awareness.
People
Brigitte Stegers, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
Kim Sauvé, Lancaster University, UK
Steven Houben, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
Abstract
We are in the middle of a climate crisis. Never before has the impact of climate change been this visible, problematic, and timely. While most people have a basic awareness of the enormous potential impact of climate change, the reality is that only a few people have a detailed understanding of how their own (combined) personal activities − including food, transport, energy − impact the climate. In this pictorial, we explore the design process and principles of a data sculpture − Ecorbis − that is designed to help people reflect on how their day-to-day activities translate to climate impact. Ecorbis provides abstract and numerical weekly feedback on the overall environmental behavior of households and allows for in situ reflection and comparison. We conducted an initial 8-day field study with two families that highlighted that Ecorbis raised environmental awareness on climate impact and that the layered design of Ecorbis facilitated reflection.