Beijing Connection

Beijing Connexion is a web platform hosting projects realized during a one week journey in Beijing with 15 students.

Our objectives were to work around the topic of quantified self, data logging and also on a reflection about regular picture and movie that people usually records during their own journey. To realize precisely those projects we had to perform 24 hours per day to get our datas and visual materials.

We kindly thank the “Summer University” program of the Canton of Vaud who made this possible and also all the people who welcomed us at Tsinghua University, CAFA University and the Beijing Maker Space.

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Other (2015) with Alain Bellet, Vincent Jacquier

Assistants: Pauline Saglio
Know-how: Data visualization, Documentary, Web, Electronics, Moving images

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