Shopping Trolley Secrets - Interactive comics

A green and white illustrated brochure about data sharing, research, and health policies, with sections discussing information usefulness, linkages, and health preparedness.

This project was part of my MSc Thesis Project exploring the affordances of storytelling in informal science settings. It was undertaken as part of a live exhibition “Shopping Trolley Secrets” at We the Curious, Bristol.

Project goals
- Design a low-resource, light-touch artefact to complement the wider exhibition
- Provoke thinking around the idea of data donation for socially useful research
- Help create space for a dialogue between visitors and researchers

The comic includes a tear-off section with interactive elements designed to help foster a dialogue between researchers and the public

Role
- Concept development for a short comic style exhibit
- Translate ideas such as data donation, and how shopping data can be useful to researchers - into visually engaging analogies
- Illustration, design and creative production

Themes
Public engagement, Exhibit design, Public consultation, Data science, Health research

Stack of colorful illustrated pamphlets with the top one titled "We Live in the Age of Data" in white text on a green background, featuring drawings of a smartphone, cookies, loyalty card, shopping cart, and a woman at the bottom.

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