In collaboration with Nature Journal

Lost Science

In collaboration with the Journal Nature I have been researching and investigation the destruction of science after one year of the trump administration. The government canceled over 7,800 research grants effecting 25,000 scientists and personnel and amounting to US$32 billion in lost research funding.

While the outcome of this project is mainly represented in this one image of exploding glass the process was elaborate of reaching this final image. Data visualization is not made for representing things that have been destructed. We use platonic shape in the form of circles, rectangles, lines etc. to represent destinctions drawn into the world. But how to represent dissaperance?

I turned the cancelled grants into a glass surface and fragmenting it as a tree-structure representing each US state and grants by the total size of the grant. I than exploded the structure, leading to an uncanny valley between data representation and physics simulation of shatterd glass.

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