Latent Datacapes
Through an interview with JPL research scientist Anthony Bloom, who focuses on the carbon data model framework (CARDAMOM), I learned that his team wanted to present carbon cycles in a way that felt fresh and accessible to the public. Conducting research based on data and effectively communicating it to a general audience require entirely different skill sets. Recognizing this gap, I explored various visualization methods that could transform complex carbon cycle data
Client
JPL, Caltech, ArtCenter
DELIVERABLES
Presentation, Visualizations, Working Prototypes
Year
2024
Role
Creative Direction, Designer
Research Question
How can immersive experience reveal the structural pressure behind homelessness, rather than simply asking users to feel sympathy for an individual story?
In Los Angeles, homelessness is often addressed through visibility control rather than structural care. Policies such as LAMC 41.18 criminalize basic acts of existence in public space, including resting, staying, or securing personal belongings. Instead of resolving housing insecurity, these policies often produce temporary displacement and reinforce the idea that unhoused people are a public nuisance to be removed.
This punitive structure is further supported by media narratives that dehumanize homelessness through images of tents, carts, and disorder, while rarely showing the structural causes behind housing precarity. For many communities, especially AANHPI individuals experiencing hidden or precarious housing, the crisis becomes even less visible due to stigma, undercounting, and cultural pressure to self-erase.
