Density Happens, a proposal for Visualizar08 in Madrid
Monday, October 6th, 2008Though dangerously close to the deadline, I have managed to hand in my proposal for Visualizar08 at the last possible moment (hint: my euphemism for having a deadline has become “moving to Hawaii”). It is called Density Happens, and the idea behind it is to employ urban density as the X axis for visualising all kind of measurements related to urban quality of living.
Density exhibit at the 2007 Venice Biennale. Photo by Ben Cerveny
Other projects have focused on density before, but I hope this one is the first that examines how everything else, from abortion rate to sales of icecream, from pollution to food prices, from teenage drunkenness to subjective measurements of happiness, can be related to urban density and its immediate effects.