Tools/Tech

Data collection for the Climates of Inequalities studies vary depending on the situation.

In the case of the Philadelphia Exhibit, a lot of the research was conducted via interviews and word of mouth. Students and researchers worked with Eastwick, Philadelphia residents to get their first hand accounts.

Audio recordings were the most important tool to the Eastwick project. These interview records were then studied to present a story. Recordings these days are often done on a smartphone, but the original tool would be an audio recording device. witch serves as a key tool for collecting, preserving, and analyzing human experiences, stories, and voices in digital form. A prime digital humanity.

Presenting the data and conveying a message of environmental and local community wrong doing requires a large screen, interactive maps, and data sets simplified for everyone to understand. These are only possible through the audio that is studied and transcribed into this presentation style.