Submission Sculpture

Digital Azulejos

This project aims to extend the Portuguese tradition of patterned tiles (azulejos) with digital technology. Made using data visualization and 3D printing, the tiles show the number of Portuguese-speakers on each continent through the symbolism of land, water, and ripples. Each continent is symbolized by a cube and each ripple signifies a million Portuguese-speakers on the given continent (i.e. 11 ripples around Europe = 11 million Portuguese speakers). Experienced passing by, azulejos create meaning in the background of our lives. As a tactile landscape, its patterns are primarily tactile and only secondarily visual. Ideally installed in a public space, people would engage with a central phenomenon of their culture through the rhythm and undulations of the surface of the piece.


http://samuelsetenyi.com/post/137163493156/data-tiles-digital-azulejos-data

Digital Azulejos

This project aims to extend the Portuguese tradition of patterned tiles (azulejos) with digital technology. Made using data visualization and 3D printing, the tiles show the number of Portuguese-speakers on each continent through the symbolism of land, water, and ripples. Each continent is symbolized by a cube and each ripple signifies a million Portuguese-speakers on the given continent (i.e. 11 ripples around Europe = 11 million Portuguese speakers). Experienced passing by, azulejos create meaning in the background of our lives. As a tactile landscape, its patterns are primarily tactile and only secondarily visual. Ideally installed in a public space, people would engage with a central phenomenon of their culture through the rhythm and undulations of the surface of the piece.

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