Meet Steffen Fiedler and Stephan Thiel, the co-founders of the Berlin-based design and data visualization studio NAND. We invited them to host a data visualization workshop and public discussion at Medialab in Katowice, Poland, as part of Shared Cities: Creative Momentum project.
Studio NAND works at the intersection of new modes of visualization, and technology development. They explore original and innovative ways of how to communicate things differently and/or from upside down angle. Their projects involve creating explorative studies and looking directly at the data, without filters. They talk to scientists, policy makers and politicians, artists and communities about the content that can be a subject of visualization.
They try to understand ever-changing processes, e.g.energy consumption in a city like L.A. with all its complexity. Apart from data visualization, they work in the area of speculative design. They imagine and create physical aspects of the content, make use of a rich scale of means and they design objects that are explaining their function through their form.
They highlight the growing effect of the social phenomena, politics and social economics on the various design processes. They also explain the reasons why designers have to be concerned with the complexity of our (urban) world in the future, and have to find alternative ways how to communicate their ideas.
This video was made possible thanks to the project Shared Cities: Creative Momentum co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
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reSITE is an international nonprofit platform based in Prague. We work at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, politics, culture, and economics. We act as a catalyst for social action and innovative leadership.
We encourage an exchange of ideas about making cities more livable, competitive and resilient. We protect and promote public space, architecture, and sustainable development in cities.
Why? To stimulate action for sustainable urban design and therefore better cities. We stand for public space.
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Shared Cities: Creative Momentum is a European cultural platform addressing the contemporary urban challenges of European cities. SCCM is a joint project of Goethe-Institut (DE), Czech Centres (CZ), reSITE (CZ), Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (SK), Association of Belgrade Architects (RS), Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre – KÉK (HU), Katowice City of Gardens (PL), KUNSTrePUBLIK (DE), Mindspace (HU), Old Market Hall Alliance (SK), Res Publica – Cities Magazine (PL). Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
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