Ice Core Visualization Chinongedzo Chikuru: Chimiro Choumhizha by Yingri Guan

Ice Core Visualization Chinongedzo Chikuru: Chimiro Choumhizha by Yingri Guan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Mubairo weSimbi we A' Design Award in Hunyanzvi Hwakaisvonaka neKuiswa kweHunyanzvi Competition Category.

SimbiHunyanzvi· 2021

Ice Core Visualization Chinongedzo Chikuru: Chimiro Choumhizha

by Yingri Guan

Client: ARiceStudio

Mubairo weSimbi we A' Design Award Winner in Hunyanzvi Category

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The Design

About Ice Core Visualization Chinongedzo Chikuru: Chimiro Choumhizha

Zvinyorwa: Ice Core Visualization ichimiro choumhizha chinoratidza ukama pakati pezvinhu zve carbon dioxide nemamiriro ekunze enyika. Chimiro ichi chakavakwa nemapombi masere e-acrylic azere ne gel wax yakaiswa mumitsara yakaturikwa pamusoro peimwe neimwe. Pombi imwe neimwe ine upamhi hwe masendimita gumi nemasere (8 inches) uye hurefu hwemamita anenge matatu (3 feet). Mutsara mumwe nemumwe we wax unomiririra data reganhuro remakore chiuru chimwe chete, zvichifukidza makore mazana mana chiuru apfuura. Chimiro cheruvara rwe grey chinoratidza kusiyana kwezvinhu zve carbon dioxide. Chimiro chechipiri chinoshandisa ruvara rutsvuku kumiririra kupisa uye rwebhuruu kumiririra kutonhora, kuratidza kusiyana kwemamiriro ekupisa.

The Recognition

About the Mubairo weSimbi we A' Design Award

Mubairo weSimbi we A' Design Award wakahwinwa ne Ice Core Visualization Chinongedzo Chikuru: Chimiro Choumhizha, rukudzo runokudzwa runopiwa kumadhizaini akanaka anozadzisa zvinodiwa zvehunyanzvi neyeindasitiri zvinotarisirwa kuzvigadzirwa zvakagadzirwa zvakanaka. Vakunda veSimbi vanoratidza unyanzvi hukuru, hunyanzvi hwakakwirira, kunzwisisa kwevakachenjera uye kugona kwekugadzira kwevagadziri vavo. Ice Core Visualization Chinongedzo Chikuru: Chimiro Choumhizha inotarisirwa kuva chigadzirwa chinokudzwa zvakanyanya, chinoremekedzwa uye chinodiwa, chinoshanda uye chine zvitsva. Dhizaini iyi yakahwina Mubairo weSimbi we A' Design Award inosanganisa maitiro akanakisa eindasitiri uye ine hunhu hwetekinoroji hwakakwana hwakabatana neruzivo nehunyanzvi. Nekushanda kwayo zvakanaka, Ice Core Visualization Chinongedzo Chikuru: Chimiro Choumhizha inoremekedzwa uye yakagadzirirwa kupa kuvandudzwa kwehupenyu kunobatsira kuita kuti nyika ive nzvimbo iri nani.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Ice Core brings together the aesthetics of layers of ice with the immense amount of weather information core samples contain. It features eight acrylic tubes filled with layered gel wax, with each layer denoting the average data contained within a thousand-year sample.
Dimensions & Packaging: Each ice core tube is 8 inches in diameter and 3 feet in length
Tags: Ice Core, Art, Installation, Visualizations, Generative
Production Technology: First the data set is obtained from NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Below shows the data set used in diagram format based on the Vostok Petit data. Carbon dioxide in comparison of global temperature variation is chosen. Generally carbon dioxide production is related to burning of carbon and other energy consumption activities. While global warming is closely related to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere especially carbon dioxide level.
Design Challenge: I was brainstorming along the line of creating something semi-transparent, which lends close resemblance to original ice cores while giving the flexibility of making it layer by layer. Therefore, the process of making wax candles came in handy. Hence, I melted layers of wax with the measured amount of dye is poured into the tube layer by layer. I divided the acrylic tube into four sections, and each tube represents a hundred thousand years. Then I further divided each tube into a hundred layers. Therefore each layer of the wax represents average data over a thousand years.
Research: A greyscale color scheme depicts the carbon dioxide variation over the last four hundred thousand years. In comparison, a color scheme based on the weather map describes temperature variations. Red is associated with heat; blue indicates freezing temperature. The goal to show temperature variation. When four tubes are displayed side by side, we can see that the variation corresponds. If more carbon dioxide is present in the global environment, the higher the temperature. Inversely, the lighter content indicates a lower carbon dioxide production and therefore followed by a generally colder climate.
Inspiration: Ice cores are long and condensed tubes that are extracted from the extremely cold areas where snow fell and accumulated over the years with minimal melting and eventually compressed to ice sheets. The layers of snow contain rich information about our global climate. For example, dust, ash, pollen, bubbles of atmospheric gas and radioactive substances. This project is particularly concerned with carbon dioxide content in the gaseous bubbles trapped inside each layer of ice.
Project Duration: Project started in Buffalo since 2012 and complete in San Francisco Bay Area by 2018
Operation Flow: A very interesting aspect of this making is the tactility of the whole process. I wanted the audience to have a direct correlation to what they see in front of them and appreciate the beauty of the ice core as I have been. Also, it is observed that there are four general cycles in terms of variation of the global climate. Currently, according to the trend, we are moving towards the time period that temperature is predicted to go up. Therefore it lends question to that if global warming is a manmade phenomenon or it is part of the global climate change cycle.
Team Members: Yingri Guan
Image Credits: Photographer Yingri Guan, Variations, 2014