presentations

Flowing Data – Water Systems

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OOM Creative is excited to part of the Creating Liveable Cities exhibition – as part of the 2010 State of Design festival – sponsored by Melbourne Water. Four innovative design teams Buro North Room 11 I-N-D-J & OOM Creative were invited to develop design responses to the theme of water as a resource within our urban environments.

Design statement:
OOM Creative’s challenge was to present 10 years of data from Melbourne’s water systems in an elegant and memorable information visualisation. We were interested in how the data could tell a story over time – and through some early prototypes – discovered that placing the water data in circular formations generated intriguing and informative shapes; working both as graphics and animations. Each day of the year is arranged clockwise around a circle, and then the values for rain fall, reservoir storage, river level and sewerage are plotted on these days. Immediately you see how the seasons shape our water supply, the amount of variation there is in a decade, and how our behavioural patterns effect the water output from the city. As designers we’re interested in how people take away their own readings of the graphics, by understanding a decade of information, a year, or simply a day in the life of Melbourne’s water systems.

OOM Creative developed a realtime HD screen & print installation, and 10 large poster designs (2.3X1.6 M) on show in Melbourne’s City Square during the festival.

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The image above on the left shows the realtime screen & print installation, with a close up of the screen graphics on the right. Photo © Tobias Titz

Visualisations: Greg More, OOM Creative
Sound design: Marco Cher-Gibard

Images below: 10 posters illustrating a decade of water data; print from exhibition showing data from 2009; detail of print.

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Education Days – Orange Island

It was great to chat with Nick from Extralab at the Orange Island Education Days. This event was simultaneously broadcast through Mogulus as a live video stream allowing for a greater audience, and it has now been broken up into easier to consume segments. Here is the link to the broadcasts: Educational Days – Day 2

The Great 2020 Debate

It was an honor to be on panelist for the Great 2020 Debate – an event organized and hosted by Bruce Joy (CEO Vastpark) – as part of the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds (FCVW), in Washington 2009. The discussion was thoughtful and very insightful. The panel were:

  • Serge Soudoplatoff, founder of Almatropie
  • John Hurliman from Intel
  • Greg More, Director of OOM Creative
  • Gary Wisniewski, cofounder, Treet.tv and SLCN

The videostream has been placed onto vimeo at: http://vimeo.com/4369279

The webpage for the event:  http://fcvw.vastpark.com/fcvw09-the-great-2020-debate.html

Virtual Worlds Down Under

Recently I presented as part of the Virtual Worlds Down Under event hosted by Vastpark. This was a great chance to present our work with architecture & design students at RMIT using virtual environments within design contexts. All presenters had the same avatar, the voice was skype, and a company in NYC filmed the event.


Virtual Worlds Down Under – Part 3 of 4 – RMIT Architecture from VastPark on Vimeo.

Orange Island Architects

Yesterday I was part of an invited panel discussing the role of architecture within Second Life. This discussion was held on Orange’s Second Life Island and was on the third day of events dedicated to thinking about architecture and design in virtual worlds. I was in Antwerp at the time, sitting in a hotel lobby, and given the distractions of the hotel bar in the background the discussion was really interesting, assisted by the 4 layers of skype, Secondlife voice and chat.

Orange Island Architecture Days Link