Carbon Scales is a low-tech data physicalisation of carbon emissions acribed to different phases of food production - agriculture, processing, packaging, and transport. People use Carbon Bits (i.e., 80-100g blocks made from wood, screws, bolts, and a binding agent) to touch and make sense of carbon emissions and place these bits on each platform of Carbon Scales to try and guess the emissions it takes to make and transport a specific food product. Source: Lindrup, M. V. A., Menon, A. R., & […]
Carbon Scales is a low-tech data physicalisation of carbon emissions acribed to different phases of food production - agriculture, processing, packaging, and transport. People use Carbon Bits (i.e., 80-100g blocks made from wood, screws, bolts, and a binding agent) to touch and make sense of carbon emissions and place these bits on each platform of Carbon Scales to try and guess the emissions it takes to make and transport a specific food product.
Source: Lindrup, M. V. A., Menon, A. R., & Biørn-Hansen, A. (2023). Carbon Scales: Collective Sense-making of Carbon Emissions from Food Production through Physical Data Representation. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 1515–1530.
Added by: Martin Lindrup.
Category:
Passive physical visualization
Tags:
sustainability, climate change, low-tech, food production, wood, pollution