Moving Image Design
Celeste
I’m a research-based designer focused on installation and experience design.
Throughout my time at the RCA I have dedicated my research and practice towards
data rights and advocating for inclusive and wide-ranging data collection
norms. Recently my focus has been on medical data gaps concerning gender and
ethnicity in medical education and clinical drug trials. Plants and growth are
metaphors that often feature in my work to represent human experience and the
external constraints that impact the potential of a living organism.
Making of Datafields
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Covid-19 studio set up in my bed room & tripod
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This project investigates inequity in racial representation, throughout medical educational material. In a 2015 study to investigate skin tone representation in medical textbooks*, researchers found that 75% of images presented as ‘light skin tone’. To visualise this inequality two planted beds of cress, receive disparate amounts of water, to display the difference in growth between these two numbers. The bed on the right was fed using a medical bag at a 75% speed and the bed on the left received 25%. While educational representation cannot be entirely to blame for racial inequities across global health care systems, it begins to shine a light on where these biases may begin.
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Covid Bedroom sStudio & Tripod