Speculative Landscape

An infographic about the nightlife of EH2.

It’s interesting to see how people personalize a space which without anything is just the same as all the houses along the street.

Final data analysis of the percentage of children in Museum of  Childhood and Game

When I was in Dr Neil’s Garden, everything is so quiet including the visitors. There are only a few people I met, everyone seems has their own story. They came to the garden with different purpose. What I do is capturing the moods of them.

Zoe Zhou

Rebecca Sheerin @illusheerin

Kat Cassidy

I based my visual data around the movement of the swans around the Loch for an hour. From this I created a map and a comic that visualised this movement. Whilst the comic is intended to be humorous, it also effectively captures the behaviour of the swans and the motivation for their movement across the map- based on a real life encounter. All it takes for the swans to swarm is the slightest crumb to fall or the rustle of a wrapper. This documented movement, however, is a continuous pattern and a routine the swans repeat daily, if not by the hour. The combination of behaviour, routine and aesthetic lead me on to my final idea, a snapshot of what the future may look like for St. Margaret’s Loch…

Geraldine Sawyer

The day I went to the Meadows, the grass had been freshly cut for the new season. The lines of the grass followed a direct pattern and so did people’s conversations. Collecting extracts of people’s conversations and creating data out of this allowed me to place the subject within the framework of the grass and play around with the noise of which I heard it at.

For data stories I studied Dalry Road and have created four abstracted images which I have put together. Each one is made up of all the typography, colours and patterns from the road.

-Hannah Riordan

A study by Heidi Tamminen

A map of the places and the number of people I encountered in Cramond village, on a rainy Tuesday afternoon.

Hollie Joiner.

The 19th September 2018 was a very windy day. Storm Ali took down a multitude of branches and leaves, three umbrellas, two huge trees and one chair in the Meadows. Please see my handy map of the Meadows below to see where tragedy struck…

Melanie Grandidge

A data collection of the most unusual plants of the Royal Botanic Garden. I took photos of the plants I saw while walking through the different areas of the garden and used them as references when creating the final illustration.

Illustrated data collection of Cruise Liners that launched from Leith Docks in August 2018. Showing crew size, tonnage, and the number of times launched through the size of drawn ships, lines to the dock, and the distance away from the dock.

A cryptic data visualisation documenting the shapes, sizes, localities or varieties of various holes and passages in Cramond that lead to the hollow world below us. Use this data as a guide if you should decide to make the journey into the bowels of the earth to discover the wondrous and advanced civilisation that lives there. Make sure to pass through Cramond Inn and  Cramond Gallery Bistro on the way back- but be wary of how much of the details of your journey you disclose to the locals! They are very protective of their beloved portals and the world beneath….

Simple drawings of dogs i saw while getting a hot chocolate and soup in the outside sitting area in the Boardwalk beach club(very dog friendly) in Cramond.

Paula Convery.

A noisy sound map from a walk  around the Marchmont area. Each mark informed by the different sounds recorded. Conclusion, cars and school children are the loudest noise makers.

I rooted myself to one spot in Inch Park and recorded what I could see. The result is ambiguous maps, personal to my experience of the park and only useful from one very specific place.

Individual perspective always finds its way into a drawing. If this happens literally, the drawings can become tools to discover interesting details about a place, and someone’s experience of it.

Miranda Smith

It started off pretty standardly boring: confused and dazed in all the information given, I drew the strangers that walked by, things that stood out about them: hat, hands. To compensate for the lack of enthusiasm in the first part, I ended up conducting a social experiment that tests levels of morality in each EH. I dropped a fiver before a group of strangers and saw who gave it back to me, if at all. Here is a postcard with results on them for each location.

These are the shapes I spotted when traveling around the Grange. These places included: the playground, the cemetery, Warrender Crescent and the New Leaf Co-op on Argly place. I found these represented the places well and made it easier for me to look back and think about what I had observed.

I sat on a bench in the middle of a crossroads in the freezing cold drawing the noses of people who walked past. I found that the older generation seemed very concerned for my wellbeing and some even looked mildly inconvenienced by my drawing. I managed to make many young men feel very uncomfortable by my prolonged stares, but I managed to draw some fantastically odd shaped noses. As I recall the middle aged women were very snotty when they walked past and realized what I was doing many of them turned their noses up when I looked at them so I have many underside drawings of their faces. Kids, on the other hand took no notice of what I was doing and because they weren’t looking at me, I found it much harder to draw them.

People use the road along the canal for several different things. For jogging, cycling, to have a walk with their babies  or dogs, to chat with someone. But which is the most common use? Let’s count!

On an average Thursday between 10.20 am and 1.30 pm.

If you look down as you walk around Edinburgh, you’ll see all the unwanted plants, leaves pushing through concrete, striving to grow in environments designed to keep them out. The only plants welcomed in urban spaces are those pre-selected and cultivated by humans. Plants alone had this land for millions of years before we were here, and when I see a rebellious little dandelion growing where it shouldn’t, I see that as them trying to take the landscape back.

Fiona Barron

Hello! Welcome to my weird little zine book about swimmers at the commonwealth pool! So as you can see my final piece was this little book! (I’ll put the full pages below). I wanted to get as far away as possible as i could from visualizing data in charts so i came up with this:

I began by collecting data by taping questionnaires at the bus stop at the commonwealth pool to be filled out by swimmers, I then collected them up and analysed the responses and drew funny conclusions from what was said to illustrate.

I wanted the reader to look for the link themselves between the image and the text below and have it being quite ambiguous and dreamy.

by Felicity Hamilton

The Royal Mile can take you all the way back to when it was still
SMELLY AND HORID
and brimming with shit and poor people (if you let it).
The Royal Mile can tell you stories of witchcraft and wizardry. The Royal Mile is swarming with murder victims singing Auld Lang Syne and brave warriors in ORIGINAL BATTLE KILTS, designed by Victorians in draughty turrets. Let the Royal Mile tell you its SECRET stories, HIDDEN histories, GORY GHOST TALES and favorite bits of David Hume’s body.

Let us all come together and stroll up the cobbled street to the castle on tired, tired feet, take some nice photos of bad weather and consider buying a gold-plated deep-fried mars bar

WRITE HOME

TELL THEM ALL ABOUT IT
spread the image

I DID and you can SEE IT HERE:

post-kitschpocalyptic-cards

Lots of Love xxx

Jo Rüssmann

A graph showing the relationship between Rubbish and Nature walking through a cross section of zone EH4 from Dean Village to Cramond Beach.

Upon reaching Cramond Beach, I ventured to Cramond Island and discovered some WW2 ruins.

All the dogs which I spotted during my walk.

Orange is probably my favorite color because it reminds me of my favorite season, Autumn. I was surprised that it is however the least liked color between men and woman according to a color survey.

You can check out the link to the results here: http://www.joehallock.com/edu/COM498/preferences.html

I wanted to contrast these results by collecting data of how many people had orange objects while walking around the Meadows in Edinburgh, Scotland.

A very basic map showing the graves with flowers/nurtured vs. the graves that seemed neglected in the Grange cemetery. Even the neglected graves seemed peaceful/pretty to me though.

(as represented by Balerno-ese hay bales)

The five species of weed I found in this corner of a carpark (chickweed, daisy, bramble, buttercup and dandelion) were too charming and perfect in their own uniqueness and delicateness to represent with a mere pie chart or line graph and deserved to represent the data with their own leaves and petals.