Video description: A visitor approaches a digital wall showing a global map, and taps to open a circular interactive viewport. Inside the viewport they see different data overlaid on the map; they drag the viewport to look at the data for an adjacent area.
NASA
At NASA’s Goddard Institute, scientists analyze millions of data points daily. We transformed this raw data into the Data Lens interactive—a mesmerizing experience at their Visitor Center, allowing visitors to view Earth as NASA climatologists do—through complex, interconnected layers of biology.
By manipulating three lenses—life, air, and water—visitors can follow Saharan dust to the Amazon, observe phytoplankton blooms, and watch the seasons change from space.
Awards
SEGD Design Awards
2018 Merit Winner
GLAMi
2018 Finalist
Fast Company
2018 World Changing Ideas Award Finalist, Graphic Design and Data Visualization
SXSW
2018 Finalist, Visual Media Experience
Comm Arts
Interactive Annual Featured Project
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Video description: Two visitors interact with a large touch surface by drawing lines that cause text and image panels to appear. Once open, they explore them to see AI-generated connections between objects in the museum's collection.
Video description: Visitors in a museum gallery look at displays of objects next to a long digital screen. A Visitor steps into a circle of projected light and a large sculpture resembling an audio cone reacts and illuminates in front of them. A visitor types into an interactive and makes a poem with an AI agent; a long curving digital screen extends up over and above them that shows pieces of paper with other visitor-created poems on them floating upwards.