Making with Data: Physical Design and Craft in a Data-Driven World

Book Description

Making With Data: Physical Design and Craft in a Data-Driven World provides a snapshot of the practices used by contemporary designers, researchers, and artists who are creating objects, spaces, and experiences imbued with data. Creators of physical representations of data draw from a range of domains and traditions, and represent a fascinating, inspiring, and revealing cross-section of contemporary maker and data culture.

To highlight the diversity of approaches, this book features a collection of first-hand accounts from 25+ international artists, designers, and scientists, documenting the process of designing and creating new physical representations and experiences with data. In each chapter, creators tell the story of how they created specific physical representations of data and illustrate that process via documentary sketches, photos, and other design artifacts. The book is divided into five themes (handcraft, participation, digital production, actuation, and the environment), each with an introduction that considers the broader social, scientific, and artistic implications of giving physical form to data. In particular, this book explores the process by which those artifacts are created, surfacing the design decisions, considerations, methods, and fabrication techniques that modern creatives use when making with data.

The first book to showcase physical representations of data, and discuss the creative process behind them, approaching the topic from a multidisciplinary perspective – from computer science, data science, graphic design, art, craft, and architecture – and beautifully illustrated throughout, Making With Data is accessible and inspiring for enthusiasts and experts alike.

中文：

书名：数据制造：数据驱动的世界中的物理设计和工艺

数据制造：数据驱动的物理设计和工艺 世界 提供当代设计师、研究人员和艺术家使用的做法的快照，他们正在创建充满数据的对象、空间和体验。数据的物理表示的创建者来自一系列领域和传统，并代表了当代制造者和数据文化的迷人、鼓舞人心和揭示的横截面。

为了突出方法的多样性，这本书收集了来自25多名国际艺术家、设计师和科学家的第一手资料，记录了设计和创造新的物理表示和数据体验的过程。在每一章中，创建者讲述他们如何创建数据的特定物理表示，并通过纪实草图、照片和其他设计文物说明这一过程。这本书分为五个主题(手工、参与、数字生产、驱动和环境)，每个主题都有一个导言，考虑赋予数据物理形式的更广泛的社会、科学和艺术影响。特别是，这本书探索了这些人工制品的创建过程，展示了现代创意人员在使用数据进行制作时使用的设计决策、考虑因素、方法和制造技术。

这是第一本展示数据的物理表示并讨论其背后的创造性过程的书，从计算机科学、数据科学、平面设计、艺术、工艺和建筑等多学科的角度探讨这一主题，并从头到尾都有精美的插图。 用数据制作 对爱好者和专家来说都是容易理解和鼓舞人心的。