Tools & Systems; Pumpkin!

During on studio session, we were put into groups and assigned a certain subject to think up a relevant concept, collect our own data about it and find a way to display it. We were given five pounds to buy resources to create our visualisation idea. 

The group I was in was given the topic Food to create a concept on. Immediately we thought about demonstrating where ingredients in a sandwhich or other food source came from. After a bit of thought we decided this may be a little difficult as each ingredient's location isnt always listed on a sandwhich packet etc.

Finally we decided on researching where different fruits and vegetables came from around the world. We began our search at Marks and Spencers and recorded our results.

We found some really interesting countries had shipped fruit and veg here. 

Once all our data had been gathered, we decided to demonstrate our results by buying a pumpkin and using that as the Earth. We then used pins, and threads and little labels to show which fruits and vegetables had come from which countries and been shipped all the way to the UK. We used coloured threads to show which fruit or veg had been shipped, e.g; Yellow for lemons. 

After putting together our creation, we realised that we had found nor recorded no fruit or veg being shipped from places on the globe like Russia, which was an interesting thing to find.

I really enjoyed this session and thought it was massively useful!