Principal Investigator Sarah Williams
Project Website http://www.civicdatadesignlab.org/#/mappingamerica/
The Mapping America exhibition attempts to visually represent the complexity of the American election and electorate through a collection of Infographics. The Civic Data Design Lab curated the exhibition with Kessels Kramer, a graphic design firm based in Amsterdam, with an office in London.
As co-curators, the Civic Data Design Lab selected artist and provided them with data to work with for the exhibition. The lab team also developed their own data visualization to explain the electoral system, but developing Cartograms of the elections all the way back to Nixon's time. The Cartograms highlight the current divide in American politics while also explaining the electoral college.