A really exciting call is presently making the rounds courtesy of Medialab-Prado in Madrid. VISUALIZAR'08: Database City sets out to curate a body of work which mines both contemporary urban informatics and artistic visualization - hopefully producing projects with the same kind of mojo as Stamen Design's Oakland Crimespotting (pictured above). An excerpt from the call:
Urban environments, which are becoming increasingly dense, complex and diverse, are one of contemporary society?s largest ?databases?, daily generating volumes of information that require new methods of analysis and understanding.
How can we use the data visualization and information design resources to understand the processes governing contemporary cities and better manage them? What can we learn from studying traffic and pedestrian movement flows through the streets of Madrid? What would happen if we filled the streets with screens providing information updated each moment about water and electricity consumption?
There are calls for project and paper proposals, both of which are due on October 5th. Invited participants will attend a workshop and production crunch at the venue running from November 3rd to 18th.
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Extensive information on the call is available at here. If you'd like more information on the Medialab Prado VISUALIZAR initiative, Regine Debatty has an excellent series of posts on various past workshops and projects.
