A virtual data visualization exhibition responds to the opportunities for social and urban change leading up to NYC 2021 election.
#DataVisualization
#UX
#SocialEquity
#Sustainability
Team
Sarah Williams, MIT CDDL Researchers
Role
Research, Exhibition Curation, Content, Lead Data Visualization Design, Data Parsing, UX Design
For
Center for Architecture NYC, AIA NY
The COVID19 pandemic has laid bare the City’s existing social inequities and limitations, opening up conversations about how we might envision a better NYC for all. In parallel, the local elections in November 2021 will see an unprecedented amount of turnover. In addition to the mayor, 41 elected officials will reach term limits, including four borough presidents and up to 35 City Council members and the comptroller. The number of open positions creates a singular opportunity for change in the five boroughs, and the incoming civic leaders will have the potential to remake the political landscape.
The Civic Data Design Lab worked to curate the exhibition and explore how data can illuminate the tensions and opportunities in issues that will be central in the 2021 elections. Students in the MIT Spring 2020 course, “Big Data, Visualization, and Society” worked on data visualizations across five key topics: climate change, housing, public realm and streets, and neighborhood health.
An accompanying crowdsourcing site asks visitors what they want to see for the future of NYC. Anyone who comes to the site is presented with questions related to climate change, neighborhood health, the evolving public realm, and the right to housing. The resulting visualizations paint a crowdsourced picture of New Yorkers’ wants, needs, concerns, and dreams.
Taken together, Visualize NYC 2021 and its mini-site offer a playful and insightful look at NYC’s immerse opportunities for change in the coming year.
*description credit to: Civic Data Design Lab
*The project is a nominee of the 2021 Webby Awards - Websites and Mobile Sites for Activism Section
The Civic Data Design Lab worked to curate the exhibition and explore how data can illuminate the tensions and opportunities in issues that will be central in the 2021 elections. Students in the MIT Spring 2020 course, “Big Data, Visualization, and Society” worked on data visualizations across five key topics: climate change, housing, public realm and streets, and neighborhood health.
An accompanying crowdsourcing site asks visitors what they want to see for the future of NYC. Anyone who comes to the site is presented with questions related to climate change, neighborhood health, the evolving public realm, and the right to housing. The resulting visualizations paint a crowdsourced picture of New Yorkers’ wants, needs, concerns, and dreams.
Taken together, Visualize NYC 2021 and its mini-site offer a playful and insightful look at NYC’s immerse opportunities for change in the coming year.
*description credit to: Civic Data Design Lab
*The project is a nominee of the 2021 Webby Awards - Websites and Mobile Sites for Activism Section
January Workshop Documentation
*Purple = data visualizations made during summer 2020
Green = student work from MIT Spring 2020 Course
UX & Data Viz initial sketches
