Where the work meets the ground

Data · art · architecture

Three plots, six lines, five markers

This organization sits where three things meet: the data that proves what was done to a place, the art that makes it visible, and the architecture that did it and can undo it. The three programs are that meeting drawn on the ground. Each is a plot; where two overlap something specific grows; where all three overlap is the method they are held to. Across the plots run the six instruments the methodology studies — the lines that interrupt — and the finished work sits at the points where programs and instruments connect.

The data is the input — what the research starts from: census tables and community health profiles, zoning maps and tax-lien records, community board reports and city budgets, agricultural studies, agency reports, and what neighbors say in surveys and at the table. The work is the processing of that record into tools and programs. The output is what a neighbor would want from it: a block that knows its own story; food grown, owned, and taught on the block; people who can read the city, and change it. The Data lens shows each plot’s sources and its desired outcome; the plot itself is the work between them.

Select a plot, a line, or a marker to read it. Look through a lens to re-weight the drawing.