CROSSTALK
CROSSTALK
CROSSTALK
信息设计｜研究驱动设计｜空间视觉设计
Information Design | Research-Based Design | Spatial Graphics
Information Design | Research-Based Design | Spatial Graphics
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信息设计｜研究驱动设计｜空间视觉设计
信息设计｜研究驱动设计｜空间视觉设计
Instructor: Brad Bartlett
Instructor: Brad Bartlett
CROSSTALK 探索人类如何在环境、身体与心智之间的相互作用中进行信息处理。不同于以大脑为中心的信息处理视角，本项目进一步考察信号如何在生物网络中流动，连接大脑、肠道以及存在于人体内的微生物群落。通过研究这些沟通路径，项目将信息设计重新定位为一种“活的网络”，并提出新的设计方法，以支持人类、环境与技术系统之间的连接与协同。
CROSSTALK explores how humans process information through the interplay between the environment, the body, and the mind. Beyond brain-centered information processing, this thesis project examines how signals move through biological networks connecting the brain, the gut, and the microorganisms living inside us. By studying these pathways of communication, the project repositions information design as a living network, proposing new design approaches that support connections between human, environmental, and technological systems.
CROSSTALK explores how humans process information through the interplay between the environment, the body, and the mind. Beyond brain-centered information processing, this thesis project examines how signals move through biological networks connecting the brain, the gut, and the microorganisms living inside us. By studying these pathways of communication, the project repositions information design as a living network, proposing new design approaches that support connections between human, environmental, and technological systems.
Instructor: Brad Bartlett
Through CROSSTALK, I invite you to reimagine information design as both a system and a tool for building reinformation that bridges scientific knowledge and public understanding.
Through CROSSTALK, I invite you to reimagine information design as both a system and a tool for building reinformation that bridges scientific knowledge and public understanding.
I explored info design by learning how we, as humans, process information from the macro environment, through our senses, then back into our own bodies.
I explored info design by learning how we, as humans, process information from the macro environment, through our senses, then back into our own bodies.
Through the gut-brain axis, the microbes always help our body communicate. I categorized them into different groups based on their function and built them into different forms. Then build their behaviours with code.
A shared graphic lens extends across posters, tickets, brochures, wayfinding, and display signs, creating a guiding path that helps audiences navigate the exhibition and uncover the stories
By visualizing the Crosstalk as an experience based on different stages of input, we can walk through, activating the panels and learning the signals passing through our body.
A shared graphic lens extends across posters, tickets, brochures, wayfinding, and display signs, creating a guiding path that helps audiences navigate the exhibition and uncover the stories
Here is the full experience of CROSSTALK, as a tool and installation.
Here is the full experience of CROSSTALK, as a tool and installation.
With CROSSTALK, I hope we can reframe information design from something we passively digest to something we actively engage.
With CROSSTALK, I hope we can reframe information design from something we passively digest to something we actively engage.
© 2025 Maggie Wenqian Wu All Rights Reserved
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Shanghai, China | California, US
Shanghai, China | California, US