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 the criminal cases that have happened around the benches in the NYC parks. As a simulator, it tries to challenge the audience’s usual perception of urban green space through layers of data and interactive behaviors.
Crime serves 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 reorrcured 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 infrustucture, the people, the behvaior and the result of the place itself. Each of them are in the parts of the whole system.
Crime serves 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 reorrcured 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 infrustucture, the people, the behvaior and the result of the place itself. Each of them are in the parts of the whole system.




