Looking Outwards 09

For this Looking Outwards post, I found Yoshi’s looking outwards-0 5 post really intriguing. This project is called Building hopes by Giorgia Lupi at Accurat for Google and it is an experimental AR app that is powered by Google trends data to explore the user’s hopes. It is interesting how each rock , which is digitally generated, represents a topic and varies in size and color depending on the user’s desired intensity. Then they are stacked to create a physical representation of the user’s hopes. Like Yoshi, I admire how it is inspired by traditional balancing rock art and how she is available to use generative 3d art to humanize data trends rooted in tradition. Additionally I like how this project incorporates a sense of physicality to hopes which are intangible to enhance a more natural interaction. This project reminds us that there are so many more ways to interpret data.