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The Park Bench






Tool
Google Earth Studio, Google Map, After Effects, Twotone, Touch Designer, Arduino, Photoshop

Data Credits
NYPD Parks Crime Statistics CSV, NYPost.com, CBSNews.com, ABC7NY.com, AMNY.com, News.Yahoo.com, Pix11.com, Newsweek.com, Audacy.com, Brooklyneagle.com, Dailymail.com, Newsbreak.com
The park bench is an interactive and immersive experience that visualizes criminal cases around benches in NYC parks through layers of data and collective memories of these urban green spaces.

Beyond being just a simulator, this project explores crime as a distinct layer within society, often perceived as disorderly and anomalous. While individual incidents may appear random and chaotic, they are not isolated occurrences but integral parts of our daily lives. Continuing with my interests in exploring the inherent relationship between reoccured events and the location, I strove to find out the underlying message behind those singular events. By exploring park and the hot spot location of crime, the park bench, it signifies a deeper bonds between series of parts that defining the location of park, which includes the social infrastructure, the people, the behavior and the result of the place itself. Each of them are in the parts of the whole system.











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