Envisioning Situated Visualizations of Environmental Footprints in an Urban Environment

TL;DR

This paper explores the potential of situated visualizations to enhance understanding of urban environmental footprints through a workshop in Bordeaux, proposing design concepts for embedding environmental data in city spaces.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach of brainstorming and designing situated visualizations for environmental awareness in urban settings, with specific concepts tested in a real city environment.

Findings

Four targeted purposes for situated visualizations identified

Four methods for visualizations proposed for further testing

Design concepts aimed at environmental protection

Abstract

We present the results of a brainstorming exercise focused on how situated visualizations could be used to better understand the state of the environment and our personal behavioral impact on it. Specifically, we conducted a day long workshop in the French city of Bordeaux where we envisioned situated visualizations of urban environmental footprints. We explored the city and took photos and notes about possible situated visualizations of environmental footprints that could be embedded near places, people, or objects of interest. We found that our designs targeted four purposes and used four different methods that could be further explored to test situated visualizations for the protection of the environment.