The GeoDome is featured in Andrew Revkin’s Dot Earth blog at the New York Times, used as an example of ways we can “translate the astonishing and growing power to monitor, visualize and share information about human activities and their impacts in ways that foster social and environmental progress.” Revkin references a conversation he had […]
The Elumenati presented Perceiving Home: An Ecological Tour of the Cosmos to two packed showings at San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences on October 3. Perceiving Home is an immersive journey across vast scales of time and space, revealing the systemic interconnections that create and sustain life. Using a combination of Earth data layers, the Digital Universe Atlas, and […]
Our friends at Obscura Digital in San Francisco hosted the GeoDome Theater for an evening of presentations for Bay Area friends and family on October 4. David McConville presented The Transcalar Imaginary: Visualizing World Views, an exploration of humanity’s perceptions of the world. Crafted using Uniview’s interactive data visualization platform, The Transcalar Imaginary illuminates various […]
On Wednesday, October 7th, the GeoDome Theater was featured at the White House ‘Star Party,’ an event hosted by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Dr. D’nardo Colucci of The Elumenati set up the GeoDome Theater on the White House lawn, and gave interactive dome presentations to […]
The GeoDome Theater has just returned from its first appearance in the Southern hemisphere, where it toured Australia showcasing educational technology with AARNET (Australian Academic Research Network). Events included: – July 7-10: QUESTNet, a conference celebrating the use of networking and technology in education – July 18: At Questacon Canberra, series of domecasts celebrating the […]
The Elumenati Lab in Milwaukee worked with students, faculty and staff at Milwaukee Area Technical College on “Virtual Milwaukee,” an accurate computer-generated version of the city based on real terrain and infrastructure data. It’s a tool that can connect to traffic, weather and other data so the virtual world can act as city planning software. […]
Manuel Lima of VisualComplexity has a post on the GeoDome, including wise words on the power of data visualization to enrich the global effort of building a responsive public awareness for sustainability. VisualComplexity.com is a resource that explores different visualization methods across a series of disciplines…