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Data Visualization
Spotify listening stats
Spotify Miniature Landscape

A physical miniature cityscape turning 2025 Spotify listening history into a landscape based on the neighbourhood where the maker grew up. Each building represents a different album, with height scaled to listening time at 1:118 (1 cm = 118 minutes). One district stands out for a single song listened to for over 15 hours. Another represents an album the maker's mother loved — connecting personal memory, place, and listening data into something tangible.

Personal data, Physical sculpture
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Spotify listening stats
Data Visualization

Spotify Miniature Landscape

A physical miniature cityscape turning 2025 Spotify listening history into a landscape based on the neighbourhood where the maker grew up. Each building represents a different album, with height scaled to listening time at 1:118 (1 cm = 118 minutes). One district stands out for a single song listened to for over 15 hours. Another represents an album the maker's mother loved — connecting personal memory, place, and listening data into something tangible.

Personal data, Physical sculpture

Monopoly game on personal photography data
Photography Monopoly

A data sculpture reimagining Monopoly to represent personal photography data — 11 types of photography engaged in from September 2024 to February 2026. Each type is categorized under 3 areas (street, personal, and work) with three different colours. All conventional game components have been remade to be photography-themed, from the board and tokens to dice and cards.

Personal data, Physical sculpture
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Monopoly game on personal photography data
Data Visualization

Photography Monopoly

A data sculpture reimagining Monopoly to represent personal photography data — 11 types of photography engaged in from September 2024 to February 2026. Each type is categorized under 3 areas (street, personal, and work) with three different colours. All conventional game components have been remade to be photography-themed, from the board and tokens to dice and cards.

Personal data, Physical sculpture

Norway
Norway EV Adoption Map

3D printed EV models and oil tanks on a laser-cut map of Norway, telling the story of a successful green energy transition. Norway leads EV adoption globally while remaining the biggest oil and gas producer in Europe. Revenue from oil and gas has been placed in the Government Pension Fund Global to finance the green transition. This project asks: what can Canada learn from Norway's pragmatic and successful green energy strategy?

3D printing, Laser cutting
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Norway
Data Visualization

Norway EV Adoption Map

3D printed EV models and oil tanks on a laser-cut map of Norway, telling the story of a successful green energy transition. Norway leads EV adoption globally while remaining the biggest oil and gas producer in Europe. Revenue from oil and gas has been placed in the Government Pension Fund Global to finance the green transition. This project asks: what can Canada learn from Norway's pragmatic and successful green energy strategy?

3D printing, Laser cutting

HIVE Makers Summer Camp

This summer, ten students in grades 5 through 11 spent a week at the OISE HIVE designing, building, and coding their way through a hands-on makerspace experience. After exploring 3D printing, laser cutting, electronics, and art-making, the group came together for an ambitious final project: a fully interactive Smart House, complete with a working door lock, motion-activated lighting, a resin-cast swimming pool, and furniture that was both hand-built and 3D printed, all designed and created entirely by the students themselves. Along the way, they learned to problem-solve, collaborate across teams, and embrace the trial-and-error spirit that lies at the heart of making.

The full group of HIVE Makers Summer Camp students and instructors together at the OISE makerspace
The students' finished interactive Smart House final project
Another view of the students' completed Smart House, showing its lighting and built features
A student sketching and planning their design on a whiteboard
Students learning how to safely use a saw to cut material
Students working together across the makerspace's different stations
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