What is the definition of drought? The drought problem due to climate change is frequently in the news. But what exactly is drought? When I consult the site of KNMI (The Royal Netherlands...

What happens when the maps that millions of Americans rely on to make informed decisions about flood risk are rife with inaccuracies? "Outdated and Unreliable: FEMA's Faulty Flood Maps Put...

A mere 1% of the world’s habitable land is human built-up urban area which includes cities, towns, villages, roads and other human infrastructure. While agriculture takes up half of the world’s...

A view of Japan's lights at night with satellite F18 in 2013.

Climate change is a very hot topic nowadays. We are facing extreme weather events more and more frequently. Unusual temperatures, excess rainfall or extremely strong winds, forest fires disrupt our...

Visualizing the most recent earthquakes to have struck the Philippines.

Multiple time lines represent a layering of forces, actions and reactions that shape the identity and character of a place both physically and experientially. In order to successfully plan for the...

An immersive exhibition focussing on the use data as a creative medium to tell stories about people & place. Our brief was to design an immersive permanent exhibition space that uses data to...

A data visualization that presents the global distribution, across continents and countries, of minerals using the periodic table of elements. There is strong competition among producing...

Series of infographics on the lack of sustainability of nuclear energy for the magazine "Energy & Environment". On six pages, the graphics are devoted to exciting facts and problematic aspects...

How independent is the German media industry? Who owns the most outlets and publications? This visualisation offers an overview of the entire industrial landscape, with its main actors, its...

​​Sankey diagrams show the distribution of households according to security experience and household income, the frequency of interruption of water supply according to income, and the frequency...

This graph illustrates the nine major landforms and five major terrain types in China in the form of an infographic, also showing the formation of each landform and partial area ratio of terrain to...

A research project exploring the potential of walking to gather environmental data and through multiple walks and visualisations build a rich picture of that area. The project examines creative...

This deeply researched piece debunks the popular myth of the Northern route becoming a global shipping artery through the Arctic. Detailed shipping, bathymetric and ice coverage data, presented in...

This is an information visualisation of the upcycle yard at our design college. Its official purpose is to collect scrap from around the college and then engage in recycling activities but it has...

A map of Senja, Lofoten & Vesterålen with touches of personal data to remember the five months I traveled through Norway in 2022 with my partner. I loved the whole country, but these locations...

Goal 11 of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development is to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. This project starts with UN Goal 11 and...

The Arctic seascape plays an important role in North American trade and defense; however, in recent years, the Arctic has undergone radical changes, altering current shipping routes and opening up...

A lot of people move to Dubai, an emirate in United Arab Emirates, to start their own business and live the entrepreneurial life, given the relatively low corporate tax rates as well as the 0% tax...

Navigating around town, you're probably aware of road designations: Avenues and Boulevards and Streets and Roads and so on. However, it's hard to get an overall view of the patterns they form as...

This exploration is done as a school project for the data analytics and visualization program at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art). This work is not affiliated with the Bird Life...

Our transport system generates huge amounts of data. For instance, on a typical weekday, we collect 19 million smartcard ticketing transactions that offer a valuable insight into the number of...

Using a Node-Link diagram, I decode a dataset and explore the connections between why certain species are disappearing in the North. This includes exploring the different animal attributes, and...

An imaginary world map where the continents, countries, cities, oceans, rivers and landmarks are made up from the titles of over 1,000 songs.

Shooting stars, or meteors, are bits of interplanetary material falling through Earth's atmosphere and heated to incandescence by friction. Make a wish.

​The Sankey-bump chart visualises the global agricultural land use by regions and consequently the increasing impact of us humans reflecting the rising population figures over the last decades and...

Queering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping project that locates queer moments, memories, and histories in relation to physical space. As queer life becomes increasingly less centered...

"Interactive map of the Gulag" is a visual representation of the history of the Soviet camp system, which was included in the world history under the name "GULAG". 

Plastic is ubiquitous in our everyday lives – so much that we cannot imagine living without it, nor see how dependent we have become on it. Plastic is in almost everything. Plastic production...