Project #10 - Translation Device

Objective

Following the 7 feminist data principles, create a translation device in p5 that translates external JSON datasets into feminist data.

Submission

Reflection

I've been thinking a lot about spatial politics in relation to abolition work / policing alternatives. In thinking about how many resources policing work takes up, and how those spatial resources could be used alternatively, it's important to help to share with others and help people envision policing alternatives. For this assignment, I want to create a translation device that highlights the spatial consequences of the carceral state, particularly focusing on the proposed expasion of the Manhattan Detention Complex to 1,500,000 sq feet. I've been thinking a lot about ways to talk to my parents about alternatives to policing a way that is tangible to them. I feel like a lot of the way that's talked about that is through the budget, but when the numbers are typically in the millions of dollars, that is typically quite impossible to perceive for many folks. Through subversive data, this quick exploration aims to negotiate a spatial repurposing of the Manhattan Detention Complex.

A quick note: at the start of my research, I was unable to find any APIs that contained the data that I was looking for, so I opted to create my own simple spreadsheet that I translated to JSON using the same python script I wrote for our data visualization assignment.