Z-Space Community Mapping Project
DATA VIZ
Community artifact
TouchDesigner
PROJECT OVERVIEW
The Z-Space Community Mapping Project is a data visualization highlighting the internal and external people, places and things that shape, influence and sustain Z-Space. This project is a digital artifact for Z-Space that reflects the broad community the space is embedded within.
Built in TouchDesigner, a node-based visual programming environment, the work takes the form of a screen-saver-like data visualization. It maps external categories such as organizations, events, venues, food, and funders alongside internal categories, including the people and activities emerging directly from Z-Space.
The structure of the data visualization is an abstraction from geographical data like street address, provinces and countries. Routed in a sense of real word scale, the Z-Space logo acts as a point of origin where external categories scatter across the positive z-axis and internal categories are placed along the negative z-axis.



