Medialab-Matadero Madrid
Visualizar'11: Links and references
Energy Infrastructures
Zoom into Your Roof
http://zoominopuwdak.antwerpen.be/
During the winter of 2009, a small airplane with an infrared scanner made a wide sweeping thermal scan of a large part of Belgium, which resulted in the largest thermographic map currently available online. Inhabitants living within this area are able to select their home address and answer a few question in order to determine for themselves how their own roofs actually preserve energy.
Watson Energy Monitor
http://www.diykyoto.com/uk/aboutus
This device looks at the energy your home is using, show you usage in graphs and charts, and help you figure out ways to save electricity.
Art and Energy
http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/art-and-energy/
Pixelache and Helsingin Energia are collaborating to produce artworks related to collective energy consumption in Helsinki area. The artworks will be located in public space in Helsinki and/or presented as online projects. The proposals were made public in October 2009 so that citizens of Helsinki, energy consumption experts and the electronic art community could give feedback on them
Mobility Infrastructures
Flight Patterns
http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/
Data from the U.S. Federal aviation administration processed to create animations of flight traffic patterns and density.
Rodalies.info
Rodalia.info offers real-time information on trains that provide service users via Twitter. The project wants to take advantage of the potential and agility that offers 2.0 tools and Twitter to "centralize" the incidents, breakdowns and delays in Rodalies daily services in the Barcelona area.
The Morphing City
http://mondeguinho.com/master/information-visualization/the-morphing-city
The Morphing City is a visualization study where a city mutates its shape accordingly with the traffic on its main arteries. Those morphs tend to traduce the actual perceived distances within a city, bypassing the common perception based on its geographical mapping.This visualization model was executed for the city of Lisbon.
Information Infrastructures
Atlas of Electromagnetic Space
A 3D navigable representation of the services that use our electromagnetic radiospectrum, ranging from 10Khz "radio navigation" to 100Ghz "inter-satellite communication".
the "services" view shows the range of applications (e.g. mobile, satellite, broadcasting) sorted by electromagnetic frequency, while the "projects" view documents different art works that have been based on specific spectrum zones (with accompanying descriptions & videos).
Open 311
This website is meant to facilitate an international effort to build open interoperable systems that allow citizens to more directly interact with their cities. Many 311 systems provide a broad range of information and services, but currently the primary focus here is coordinating a standardized, open-access, read/write model for citizens to report non-emergency issues.
Removal Chain Infrastructures
Flush Tracker
Flush Tracker is an interactive Google-based website that gives insight in how far your waste travels before it arrives at the sewage treatment plant.
Trash Track
http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/
TrashTrack uses hundreds of small, smart, location aware tags. These tags are attached to different types of trash so that these items can be followed through the city’s waste management system, revealing the final journey of our everyday objects in a series of real time visualizations.
Spermola
The Spermola project is a network that intends to save all those objects that we throw to the garbage can and that can still be useful for other people. A project by Basurama that puts in contact users that have objects to give away with people who could use them, creating a parallel removal chain that recicles and preserves the utility of things that otherwise would end up in a waste dump.
Urban and Social Infrastructures
SeeClickFix
Citizens report issues on the go, and set up watch areas to monitor their block (aka "eyes on the street").Neighborhood groups and advocates follow reports of blocked bike lanes, broken windows or idling vehicles. Media outlets and local bloggers are the first to know when issues "pop up" in their areas.
Parker App
http://www.streetlinenetworks.com/parker
Streetline’s Parker app saves you the frustration of circling the block by guiding you directly to available parking—even in congested neighborhoods and tourist destinations. Just start it up to see how many spaces are available on nearby blocks.
Schooloscope
Schooloscope is an honest, independent, straightforward guide to how your local schools are getting on. We take official Government-backed information about state schools in England and try to tease out something interesting from the dry tables of statistics.Our aim is to show what each school feels like. Are the kids happy there? Is the teaching good? If you were thinking of sending your child to this school, what would the parents there tell you about it?