The Why and How – Reflecting and Synthesizing
Some questions and considerations influencing my data collecting:
- What data is being collected from us?
- What information is considered most valuable?
Basic information, personal details, accounts, locations, likes/dislikes, behaviors, interests, beliefs.
- How is this being used and by whom? i.e are we being unconsciously manipulated to stay on our devices for advertising dollars?
- More insidiously, how might our values and belief systems be manipulated for the gains of others using this information?
What personal data is of interest to me and why?
- How do I spend my time….where does it go?
- What results does this create…relationships, productivity, income, wellbeing – purpose, health, happiness?
- Can I see patterns emerge – day to day, month to month, season to season?
- Does this help me to know and understand myself better and to use this knowledge to live in harmony with natural rhythms?
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A chance to reflect and analyze.
Looking into The Maramataka- the Māori lunar calendar and how this knowledge might help me understand rhythms of seasons and life and how these naturally affect actions and energy.
- How might playing with 3D data visualizations help me see patterns emerge?
- Can I layer information to discover relationships between data sets?
Using technology to help record, visualize and analyze data in various charts and diagram formats.
- How might this influence the 3D forms?
Translating two dimensional data drawings into digital visualisations, into three dimensional adornment -exploring time and experience.
- How might these be wearable?
- What do they offer the wearer?
- Why would we wear our data?
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Perhaps wearers could collect their own data for translation into adornment, therefore reclaiming personal data by wearing this valuable asset.
Using knowledge gained of our rhythms and cycles we might live in better alignment to ourselves and the natural world?
Displaying this data on our bodies we can choose to decode the information to others, sharing something of ourselves and communicating through adornment.