The wall of the repressed

2018 · CultTechLab hackathon · Winner · CultTechLab 2018

A concept for a five-metre interactive wall: 3.1 million repressed people as a moving stream of dots, a flow from year of arrest to charge, sentence and fate, and a search by name. Made with the Data storytellers team.

The wall of the repressed: a visitor at the five-metre interactive wall, concept render

The task

A hackathon brief from the GULAG History Museum, set at CultTechLab 2018 and answered with the Data storytellers team.

The result

The concept won CultTechLab 2018. It was never built.

My role: concept and design, with the Data storytellers team.

Winner · CultTechLab 2018
3.1 million people, one dot each
A wall five metres wide
From year of arrest to charge, sentence and fate
Search by name
Concept, not built

The concept

Concept mock of a five-metre interactive wall for the GULAG History Museum — The wall itself: 3.1 million people, one dot each.

A flow diagram from year of arrest through charge and sentence to fate — The flow behind it: year of arrest, then charge, then sentence, then what happened to the person.