Dynamic Planet (2017)

The Interactive Scientific Poster “Dynamic Planet” was designed and developed for the exhibition “Focus Earth” of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam. One of the main advantages of a digital poster is that it can display dynamic content. This is at the same time the essential statement of the scientific poster “Dynamic Planet”: Our earth never stands still, it is permanently shaken by earthquakes. These tensions are measured by the GFZ and their data is visualized in real-time in an interactive poster in the exhibition context. The viewer is given a direct impression. He can be a “witness” to current measurement and scientific research.

The challenge for the interface design was to ensure a clear overview despite of the massively many events. The solution consists in 3D interactive graphical representation of the events by filtering the earthquakes by eg. magnitude and depth. A special and unseen visual feature of the scientific poster “Dynamic Planet” is the representation of the earthquakes depth in a transparent, glowing globe. A fluid earth’s core in constant change.

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Created by Konrad Rappaport (concept & art direction), Jonas Häutle (software & programming), Tom Duscher (project supervision).