MPM35 - Final Presentation

This is the documentation for my final project

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www.mpm35missing.tumblr.com

MPM35 - Changing Ideas

Instead of having the sheets standing, I've decided it hang them from the ceiling. I want this to have a very clean and simple look. There will still be enough space inbetween each sheet so viewers are still able to walk inbetween each set of data. I have decided to use the Lexan sheets from Active Surplus.to find However still not being able to find a printing shop to print on my 3x3 sheets.

MPM35 - A trip to Active Surplus

I found a new material to work with on my trip to Active surplus. It's called Lexan. It was affordable and there was a lot in stock, so I took advantage and bought 10 sheets. The pieces are about 3 x 3 which I feel are large enough to create the effect I want. However, they are flimsey (as u can see by the way im bending it in the picture) and I am thinking about creating a border out of a thicker plastic so that they can stand like in my previous sketch.

I still haven't figured out what I will use to represent each child missing. Since it will be a large number I have been looking around printing shops, but no one seems to be able to print that large on the sheets that I have.

MPM35 - Changing Ideas

After my presentation, I got to thinking about the different ways I might be able to represent my data still using the plexiglass.

Some new sketches...

The idea is to have large standing pieces of plexiglass with the same effect of the density graph in my prototype. Viewers would be able to around each representation and get a clear view of each year.

I searched mostly hardware stores (Home Depot, Roma, Canadian Tire...) only to find that the large pieces of plexiglass range in cost from $50-100. Knowing that I want to create atleast 5, this is already not going to work out.

MPM35 Prototype

Single slide containing information of abducted children for one year.

Prototype of the final project.

After finishing my sketches and creating a prototype there are already things I found that I would want to change.

1. The wood pieces are a little too distracting. I might use something transparent instead so that it is less visible.

2. Possibly different colours for every year instead of the same blue and pink.

3. Also, depending on my final numbers, instead of 1 person representing 1 person I may have to have each person representing a larger number like 10.

I'm still unsure about how I will be creating the small figures. Stickers perhaps?

I really wanted to use paint. I had an idea to make it a little more abstract and use brushes strokes of pink or blue to represent the children.

DATA SOURCES

here are some of the links where I am beginning to collect my data from.

http://www.gdsourcing.com/works/Missing.htm

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/missingchildren/childmurders.html

http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection-R/Statcan/85-002-XIE/0029885-002-XIE.pdf

http://kidsearchnetwork.blogspot.com/2005/12/missing-children-statistics.html

http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2810

MPM35 - IDEAS

IDEA #1

IDEA #2

For my final project for MPM35 I am almost positive I have decided to go with my 1st idea; that is to collect data of missing children from 5-6 years (ex. collect data from 2001,2002,2003,2004 and 2005). I will display this data on plastic transparent sheets showing the number of boys and girls abducted within that specific year. The sheets will be layered as you can see in the photo above so that as each year gets added on, the past years become less visible, and eventually forgotten; disappearing into the crowded images of boys and girls.

My second idea was to make a map of canada and map out one year of abductions in Canada. This map will show the number of children and the cause of their dissapperance in every province. Everything will be plotted on the map using images and a legend will be provided to explain the significance of each image which will represent a number of children and the cause of disapperance.

The images above will help you get a clearer picture of the kind of project I am trying to attempt

"Mapping 31 Days in Iraq"

“Mapping 31 Days in Iraq” was developed by Adriana Lins de Albuquerque, a doctoral student in political science at Columbia University, and by Adriana Cheng, a graphic designer at Mgmt. Design in Brooklyn. It is a map of more than 800 people, soldiers, security officers and civilians killed as a result of the insurgency in Iraq in January 2006. This map was created based on the data from the American, British and Iraqi governments and news reports, showing the dates, locations and circumstance of deaths for the first month of the year.

This map, although taken from 2006, is still very relevant to today’s problem in Iraq. It made me think about the thousands of bodies that have been accumulated up until now, and what this map would look like if the data had been updated with every body count up to November 2009.
I thought it was interesting the way all the people were equalized by having very similar figures so when looking at the map from afar it is difficult to depict whether they are male or female, civilian or soldier; every body is seen as one person.

This collection of data relates to other works such as Chris Jordan’s statistical portraits which gather a particular set of information and statistics and creatively graphs the information in a way which leaves the viewer with a better understanding of the situation and/or problem that is being depicted.