Unfolding the City

Till Nagel

Mapping the Urban Now

Mapping the Urban Now

Mapping the Urban Now

•  Understand data

•  Analyse data

•  Confirm hypotheses

•  Communicate stories

Goals of Data Visualization

E. J. Muybridge

Shape of Song

Martin Wattenberg

Chopin,  Mazurka  in  F#  Minor  

Shape of Song

London Cholera Map

London Underground Map

Urban Visualizations •  Splendor

Aggregate crowd-sourced data

•  Venice Unfolding

Engage local stakeholders

•  LiquiData

Expand the social space

Chris Grabert klara.kristina

Gerd Waloszek

Splendor

http://schwinki.de/splendor

Sebastian Schwinkendorf, Matthias Löwe

Splendor

FH Potsdam & IUAV, 2009/2010

Venice Unfolding

•  116 architectural projects

•  Metadata and media files

•  Selected terms from an architecture taxonomy

Urban transformation of the City of Venice

Jula  Lakritz,  Nadine  Patzig,  Stefan  Rechsteiner,  Mar:n  Schissler,  Stephan  Thiel  

Interactive Tabletop

Polyhedron to explore faceted data

Facetted Browsing

Display of facets

Tilt to select facet

Rotate to select term

Lock term to highlight matching results

Browse through media files

Pete Warden, Alasdair Allan

iPhone Tracker

LiquiData

Guy Debord, 1957

The Naked City

LiquiData

Gunnar Friedrich, Luis Grass, Christopher Pietsch, David Ikuye, Pierre La Baume

http://vimeo.com/43120464

LIVE Singapore! Provides people with access to a range of useful real-time information about their city by developing an open platform for the collection, elaboration and distribution of real-time data that reflect urban activity. Giving people visual and tangible access to real-time information about their city enables them to take their decisions more in sync with their environment, with what is actually happening around them.

http://senseable.mit.edu/livesingapore/

Human-Human Interaction

•  Existing infrastructures and systems

•  Sensor networks

•  User generated data

Data Sources

Open platform for real-time urban data

Urban Demos

LIVE Singapore!

Public transit in Singapore

Summary  

AM peak

PM peak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQpTM7ASc-w

My research •  Visualization techniques for tempo-spatial data

•  Engage large audience (urban demo, exhibitions)

•  Information aesthetics & Fluid interactivity

•  Support students and researchers with tools

My bike rides in Berlin

One year of Biking

Tracked on smart phone as GPX files

http://tillnagel.com/2013/08/one-year-of-biking/

http://tillnagel.com/2013/12/shanghai-metro-flow/

Shanghai Metro Flow

https://vimeo.com/82303397

Aims of Urban Data Visualization •  Represent the city

•  Raise awareness

•  Support decision making

•  Improve daily life

Smart cities need smart citizens

Till Nagel mail@tillnagel.com – twitter: @tillnm

Thank you.

RCA 7th January 2014, London

http://tillnagel.com