Dealing with carbon: physicalisation of academic flying to support collective meaning-making for a low-carbon academia

Today there is a wealth of data available detailing the climate impact of our actions, including the ${\rm CO}_2$ CO 2 emissions from academic flying. Despite this, such data is hard to engage with in the abstract, leading to little practical action. In this paper, we investigate how to support proc...

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Published in:Behaviour & information technology 2024-10, Vol.43 (14), p.3371-3388
Main Authors: Biørn-Hansen, Aksel, Lindrup, Martin V. A., Eriksson, Elina, Pargman, Daniel, Laaksolahti, Jarmo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
academic flying
Art, Technology and Design
carbon emission
data physicalisation
Konst, teknik och design
materialisation
Sustainability
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Summary:Today there is a wealth of data available detailing the climate impact of our actions, including the ${\rm CO}_2$ CO 2 emissions from academic flying. Despite this, such data is hard to engage with in the abstract, leading to little practical action. In this paper, we investigate how to support processes of collectively working through and making sense of environmental data about academic flying through data physicalisation. Drawing on the results from a series of workshops with stakeholders at our own university, in which we have designed and deployed a data physicalisation of flight data, we describe this process and discuss lessons learned with a focus on material, engagement with data and ethics.
ISSN:0144-929X
1362-3001
1362-3001
DOI:10.1080/0144929X.2024.2408366