15 Challenges – visualizing the millennium project. Quite often, it is advised to define clear cut boundaries for a bachelor thesis. The project »15 challenges« tries to do it differently. It visualizes the challenges for humankind during the next decades, as defined in the »The Millennium Project«. In order to do so, visualization has been developed for a dynamic key visual as well as for all »15 challenges«, 7 of which have been worked out fully. This has been done in the framework of a specific website and an exhibition showing the respective posters. All exhibition items are free to download, so a display can take place anywhere anytime. Due to a browser add-on the user does not have to activly return to the website in order to get further information but use this customizable feed while browsing or even using other programs. Information can be transfered more personalized which goes along with a higher emotion, attention and subjective relevance.
The bachelor thesis strives to answer the question how information covering a large range of topics can be visualized and can be made alive. During the development phase and the design process the following challenges have been encountered: in how far is it necessary that design reproduces known pictures in order to get the content across? In how far is it possible to influence societal awareness through modified images and disruption with well-known clichées and stereotypes?
After finishing my bachelor thesis the work with »The Millennium Project« continues.
2016 – March
illustration | infographic
bachelor thesis
tutor: Julia Ochsenhirt & Prof. Raymond Meier
the project 15 challenges has been developed as part of a bachelor thesis
at the medisdesign hochschule for 2016.
how can information cover a wide variety of themes be made both accessible and tangible?
what is the role of design in a post-modern society?
in order to explain content, how far is it necessary that design should reproduce easily recognisable pictures?
and finally, in how far is it possibe to influence public awareness by using modified pictures and by conciously breaking
with entrenched chlichès and stereotypes?
15 Challenges – visualizing the millennium project. Quite often, it is advised to define clear cut boundaries for a bachelor thesis. The project »15 challenges« tries to do it differently. It visualizes the challenges for humankind during the next decades, as defined in the »The Millennium Project«. In order to do so, visualization has been developed for a dynamic key visual as well as for all »15 challenges«, 7 of which have been worked out fully. This has been done in the framework of a specific website and an exhibition showing the respective posters. All exhibition items are free to download, so a display can take place anywhere anytime. Due to a browser add-on the user does not have to activly return to the website in order to get further information but use this customizable feed while browsing or even using other programs. Information can be transfered more personalized which goes along with a higher emotion, attention and subjective relevance.
The bachelor thesis strives to answer the question how information covering a large range of topics can be visualized and can be made alive. During the development phase and the design process the following challenges have been encountered: in how far is it necessary that design reproduces known pictures in order to get the content across? In how far is it possible to influence societal awareness through modified images and disruption with well-known clichées and stereotypes?
After finishing my bachelor thesis the work with »The Millennium Project« continues.
2016 – March
illustration | infographic
bachelor thesis
tutor: Julia Ochsenhirt & Prof. Raymond Meier
the project 15 challenges has been developed as part of a bachelor thesis
at the medisdesign hochschule for 2016.
how can information cover a wide variety of themes be made both accessible and tangible?
what is the role of design in a post-modern society?
in order to explain content, how far is it necessary that design should reproduce easily recognisable pictures?
and finally, in how far is it possibe to influence public awareness by using modified pictures and by conciously breaking
with entrenched chlichès and stereotypes?